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A huge percentage of people that live in the cold parts of Canada have "remote start" on their key fob. Press a button and that ICE fires right up to warm up yo
by grecy 7y ago
A huge percentage of people that live in the cold parts of Canada have "remote start" on their key fob. Press a button and that ICE fires right up to warm up your cabin, defrost the windows and get the engine warm enough.
They usually have some kind of hardware interlock to make sure the transmission is in park and the hand brake is on.
- semi-extrinsic 7y agoFWIW remote start is not allowed in Europe, so in the northern areas cars come with separate units that generate hot air from a heat exchanger connected to a small chamber with a flame burning the fuel.
- frenchyatwork 7y agoPeople in the warm parts of Canada do this too, now-a-days. Its kind of weird to be be riding along the road at 5 C and see all these empty cars idling on the side of the road.