EV-ites; OK so we all know that any EV will loose "X" miles per Kw[or some such term} with the heater set to 75 USA degrees, and the fan on low. The hot seat is useful in winter, ditto the steering wheel heat{If you have that}. But the EV is not as warm as my armchair in front of my electric fireplace-SO--
I borrowed a trick from the Days Long Past with my 1960 VW Beetle. For those too young, the Beetle was such that it was hard to keep warm in it, in August in the Sarah Desert! never mind a New England Winter.
So, I went to my cedar trunk with the winter items in it- found my WW02 Issue WOOL blanket{not poly-dip stick plastic sort=useless}. I took it to the IONIQ, sat down, covered the lower half of me with the blanket{ the top part was happy in a WOOL coat and Wool Sweater}. Then start the machine, turn on the seat heat, I have no steering wheel heat, and drove off into the cold night.
And Presto! the seat heat is trapped in the folds of the wool blanket, to keep me warmer; rather than the heat escaping into the COLD cabin air. Thus I have found 'the trick' for a warm IONIQ when winter REALLY gets here.
I borrowed a trick from the Days Long Past with my 1960 VW Beetle. For those too young, the Beetle was such that it was hard to keep warm in it, in August in the Sarah Desert! never mind a New England Winter.
So, I went to my cedar trunk with the winter items in it- found my WW02 Issue WOOL blanket{not poly-dip stick plastic sort=useless}. I took it to the IONIQ, sat down, covered the lower half of me with the blanket{ the top part was happy in a WOOL coat and Wool Sweater}. Then start the machine, turn on the seat heat, I have no steering wheel heat, and drove off into the cold night.
And Presto! the seat heat is trapped in the folds of the wool blanket, to keep me warmer; rather than the heat escaping into the COLD cabin air. Thus I have found 'the trick' for a warm IONIQ when winter REALLY gets here.