When Winter arrives, our first instinct in the car is to turn it on heating. Seat heating appeared in later models their appearance.
from now on electric cars will be equipped with a heating belt. Equipment manufacturer ZF will soon bring this equipment to the market, which could be positive influence on autonomy cars
Belt that heats up to 40°C
The operation is simple. Four heating wires ultra-thin metal wires with a diameter of 0.4 mm are woven into the tape belt.
Only in two minutesthe belt heats up to 40 degrees, if any -5 in the car! As a bonus provides heat nice and uniform thanks to its heating field 1.43 m in length and 33 mm in width.
As a bonus, it changes absolutely nothing in handling user or fitting a belt on car manufacturers
On the other hand, consumption thus improving the energy of the car, which makes this development particularly interesting for electric cars
Introduced last month
This heating belt was introduced in Las Vegas last month. It has a name “Heat Belt”. But this is an innovationbesides warming you up, could have effect a little unexpected your electric car
Indeed, it would improve autonomy your car Equipment manufacturer ZF explains why this is possible.
simply because heating a traditional car consumes extremely energy In addition to that in electric car, this creates a serious consumption problem as the energy is taken directly batteries
15% increase
Therefore, it is logical that if the heating comes directly from the belts, it reduces the load Accumulators.
For its part, the ZF belt should heat up between 36 and 40 degrees as soon as the car starts. The goal is to heat specific parts of the body, not the entire girdle, before wasting away energy
In winter, there would be a gain in autonomy 15% according to the designers of the belt. In addition to this and heated seats, this is the perfect combination to avoid catching a cold during the trip Winter in your electric car.
ZF’s heated seat belt could increase EV range in cold weather, reports https://t.co/xa8VAzHqoT via @insideevs.com
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Source: Auto Plus
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