Fans? We don't need no stinkin' fans.
Last week, BMW discussed an infrared heating system for
vehicle occupants that would pretty drastically cut energy use compared to
traditional systems and thereby extend the range of its battery-electric and
plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles.
The German automaker, which introduced the idea at a recent
Innovation Day, explained a system that would see panels that give off thermal
radiation mounted in footwells and on door panels.