Pre-Heat Your Car for Just Under $2,000
The cold weather is slowly, not-so-surely dissipating here in the Midwest. We give it, oh, another four weeks until we can shift our focus to the pleasures of consistently dreary spring rain. Exciting.
Still, those are four long weeks to be out in the cold. Which is why the Webasto Thermo Top E Parking Heater, with a name straight out of “The Jetsons,” might be a worthy purchase. The Thermo is activated by text message, presumably from the warm confines of the home or office, whereupon it heats up the car using only a tiny amount of fuel and 4.2 kilowatts of electricity. That’s the fortunate part. The unfortunate bit is that Webasto’s price for the device — $1,695 — is not exactly affordable. For that, you could easily get a remote starter and a few hundred gallons of gas. Or a really warm coat and scarf.
Webasto Heater is Activated by SMS, Pre-Heats Your Ride (Gizmodo)
