Getting cold here in the midwest and my Bolt shares my shop area. I really don't like heating the garage/shop with kerosene or LP do to the stink and risk of fire. This might be a dumb idea but has anyone tried to heat an area like this by turning on the Bolt, setting the heat to high and rolling down the windows? My garage/shop does have an 8 foot insulated ceiling to help hold the heat in.
Using Bolt's heater to warm garage/shop
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The Bolt's heater puts out 7500 watts on high. It pulls that power from the battery, which must be replaced by the onboard charger pulling power from the wall. Do you really want to put that kind of continuous strain on your Bolt's charger/battery/heater?
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Fully agree with madmike. Why risk wearing out an expensive component of the Bolt when a $20 electric heater would do the same job?
The 7500 watt heater I posted a link to is $232.11 at Home Depot. Put a 14-50 plug on it and use the same outlet you would plug the car into. Maybe if you lease the car you don't care. Since I suspect this is our last car, I won't be using it as a garage heater.
Nope, because then you will be overloading the circuits. I would assume the garage outlets are all on one breaker.
My Bolt's heater is the worst of any car I've had and feels like it can barely warm the cabin. I can't imagine trying to warm a room with it, let alone having it burn out from misuse and end up with a $1500 repair bill. I'd get one of those tall radiant heaters from Costco with the parabolic reflector to shoot the heat where I need it.
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I use a heat lamp at my desk (at home) since that's where I spend 9 hrs of the workday. Then I turn down the house temp so I'm not heating the entire space when I'm the only one home. That doesn't answer the question, but my point is to think about heating only the specific area needed.
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How do you work it?
You press the magical HEAT button.....
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It’s a car. You won’t harm it significantly by using it as a $30,000 space heater, nor by driving it in the rain, nor by accelerating briskly, nor by charging it more than 70%. It’s a dämn car, not a crystal ornament.
Heating the entire air space in a garage is incredibly inefficient. It takes forever to work out the coldsoak. Then you pick up a tool.... zikes! The damned thing is freezing.
For only a few $ you can buy a couple of 150-300W infra red lamp bulbs,(often called brooder lamps), used for keeping chicks warm.
Much like being outside on a cold but sunny day, your shop can be quite cool, but the radiant heat keeps everything it touches warm. Several of the outdoor hot spring pools out West use them to keep the walkways warm between change rooms & pool.
I use a couple to keep the granite floors warm between bathroom & sauna.
The best heat, though costing more) is an overhead radiant heater. They keep everything, including the concrete floor comfortable enough to work in shirtsleeves. The cost for natural gas to run them is a few dollars a month.
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Every ice rink here uses them to heat the stands, you can watch the game sans coat.
For only a few $ you can buy a couple of 150-300W infra red lamp bulbs,(often called brooder lamps), used for keeping chicks warm.
Much like being outside on a cold but sunny day, your shop can be quite cool, but the radiant heat keeps everything it touches warm. Several of the outdoor hot spring pools out West use them to keep the walkways warm between change rooms & pool.
I use a couple to keep the granite floors warm between bathroom & sauna.
The best heat, though costing more) is an overhead radiant heater. They keep everything, including the concrete floor comfortable enough to work in shirtsleeves. The cost for natural gas to run them is a few dollars a month.
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