Before now, engines made the heat as a secondary effect of combustion. Trying to find the right kind of heater has been challenging at times for Tesla, which was faced with reinventing the wheel, so to speak. The first few Tesla vehicles used an electric cabin heater to replace a traditional fuel vehicle’s reliance on internal combustion engine heat. It could even piggyback the existing work Tesla has done to make heaters for its newest vehicle, the Model Y.
Tesla has iterated different resistance heaters, but this heat pump is completely new.īecause running Tesla and SpaceX and building a new Starship every 72 hours so he can colonize Mars isn't enough, now Elon Musk would really love to build an efficient and quiet HVAC system for home use, according to Inverse. Musk is inspired by the heat pump that replaces resistance heating in the new Model Y. Like a sensible midwestern parent, Elon Musk wants you to think about HVAC.
