{"id":181047,"date":"2024-01-21T20:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T02:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/how-the-mighty-heat-pump-is-helping-but-not-solving-evs-cold-weather-problem"},"modified":"2024-01-21T20:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T02:22:55","slug":"how-the-mighty-heat-pump-is-helping-but-not-solving-evs-cold-weather-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/how-the-mighty-heat-pump-is-helping-but-not-solving-evs-cold-weather-problem","title":{"rendered":"How the Mighty Heat Pump Is Helping (but Not Solving) EVs\u2019 Cold Weather Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-the-mighty-heat-pump-is-helping-but-not-solving-evs-cold-weather-problem2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But in the past few years, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/why-you-the-planet-need-heat-pump\/\">climate change hero technology<\/a> has made its way into electric vehicles, one that has improved\u2014but not solved\u2014their cold weather issues: heat pumps. Heat pumps transfer heat from outside the car to help keep passengers warm, and so avoid sucking too much power away from the battery. And yes, heat pumps can still bring warm air into the car even if it\u2019s freezing outside, albeit with mixed success. As counterintuitive as it sounds, there is still a good amount of heat that can be drawn from air that\u2019s, say, 10 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>Today, heat pumps come in many, but not all, new electric vehicles. Teslas have come with a proprietary heat pump tech since 2021. Jaguar\u2019s I-Pace has one built in, as does BMW\u2019s latest i-series cars, Hyundai\u2019s Ioniq 5, Audi\u2019s newest e-Tron, and Kia\u2019s new electrified flagship, the EV9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny electric vehicle that comes out right now and doesn\u2019t have a heat pump is a dinosaur already,\u201d says John Kelly, an automotive technology professor and instructor focusing on hybrid and electric vehicle technology at Weber State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But in the past few years, a climate change hero technology has made its way into electric vehicles, one that has improved\u2014but not solved\u2014their cold weather issues: heat pumps. Heat pumps transfer heat from outside the car to help keep passengers warm, and so avoid sucking too much power away from the battery. And yes, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}