On Monday, 2 March 2020 14:23:02 UTC, Andrew wrote:
On 28/02/2020 00:24, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Steve Walker wrote:
The alternators are far bigger than anything needed for an electric fan
- on my previous car, it could drive a 1kW electric heater to speed up
heating of the car, as the highly efficient diesel was too slow to warm
up in the winter!

Why not an aux diesel burning heater? Far better than a puny 1kW.

BTW, 1kW is only just over 1 BHP. Some fans take more than that.

0.476Kw = 1HP