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by Andrew_nenakhov 1272 days ago
Tesla claims to have 90..94% motor efficiency. With model Y using 13kW per hour, even if you count all 6-10% of this as heat, and manage to capture it, it'll still be hardly enough to keep the car at a comfortable temperature without additional heating.
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Well, it looks worse than I thought: https://insideevs.com/news/452464/tesla-model-y-heat-pump-sy...

With home air-to-air heat pumps I took COP of 2-3 as a base for heating, it seems that COP=1 is a big deal in a car.