Tens of thousands of PSA EVs can't be wrong, they all had gasoline Webasto heaters as you describe. It's good to have a toasty warm cabin in winter, with no reduction in range. The main problem with them (well, the Thermotop-C model) is that they don't last forever, you'll need two or three heaters per pack, if your pack lasts for 100k miles.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Jan Steinman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Perhaps this is a sacrilege on this list, but I'm planning to provide > cabin heat in my 1981 Electranagon with... diesel fuel! > > I got hold of an old Webasto hydronic heater. You can find them used among > boat people, bulletin boards at marinas, etc. They sip a tiny bit of diesel > fuel, and turn it into fairly large quantities of hot water, which I plan > to run through my Vanagon's heater core. > > Electricity is (as HT Odum would put it) a "high transformity fuel," > meaning it is highly refined and contains a lot of embedded energy. Why > waste it heating up resistors? A 3kW electric heater running for an hour > uses up over ten percent of a typical EV battery, whereas one tank of > diesel will last me all winter. > > Anyway, just a thought... > > Jan > > > From: Al via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> > > > > It's that time of year, time to get the heater installed in my EV. > > :::: When money becomes the deciding factor in food marketing, some very > bad things can happen. I keep thinking about how during the famine in > Ireland, the country’s grain was sold in the higher English commodity > markets to pay rents to absentee landlords while the Irish people starved. > Now that’s what I call real price discovery. -- Gene Logsdon > :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141028/89ebc983/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
