We've been plugging our cars into mains voltage since before I was born here in Sweden, all my cars have had a socket next to the registration plate, so easy to just set the timer for the car heater and wake up to a nice and toasty defrosted car.
It doesn't get that cold here in the middle of Sweden for a battery blanket, but most diesel cars come with engine heaters.
Glow plugs are in the cylinders, to heat the air so the air will heat enough when compressed by the piston to light the fuel.
Block heaters warm the oil in the oil pan, and by extension the metal of the engine block itself, so that the oil pump is able to immediately pick up and circulate the oil without it being goopy from the cold.
We've been plugging our cars into mains voltage since before I was born here in Sweden, all my cars have had a socket next to the registration plate, so easy to just set the timer for the car heater and wake up to a nice and toasty defrosted car.
It doesn't get that cold here in the middle of Sweden for a battery blanket, but most diesel cars come with engine heaters.
Glow plugs is what I've heard them called.
Glow plugs are in the cylinders, to heat the air so the air will heat enough when compressed by the piston to light the fuel.
Block heaters warm the oil in the oil pan, and by extension the metal of the engine block itself, so that the oil pump is able to immediately pick up and circulate the oil without it being goopy from the cold.
Cool. Thank you!!!