Electric Garage Heaters

Why would I include recommendations for electric garage heaters in a blog dedicated to helping you find the best portable car heater?

Simple! If all you really want is for your car to be warm when you get into it, choosing from an array of economical and efficient electric garage heaters might be the best and safest solution for you.

Think about it: nothing sliding around on the dash, nothing draining your car battery, nothing that might blow a fuse or mess with your car's wiring system, no hot plastic smell emanating from your cigarette lighter socket.

Go with electric, not gas!

Why do I limit my recommendations to electric garage heaters--rather than to portable space heaters in general? Or portable propane heaters?

Well, I'm assuming that you want something very energy-efficient--because, after all, it's a little silly to spend big bucks just to have your car warmed up for you when you get into it. From the research that I have done, infrared heaters are the most environmentally responsible and economical choice among electric garage heaters.

What should you be looking for to find the best values in electric garage heaters?

Infrared Electric Garage Heaters: The Economical Solution

Well, first of all, you should limit your search to infrared heaters. Let me explain:

Infrared heaters use much less energy (up to 50% less) than the leading conventional space heaters. Not only do you get more heat from an infrared heater than you do from traditional heating options--but heat is distributed evenly without air being moved around.

Infrared Technology: How do These Things Work?

What are infrared rays anyway? And what are a bunch of light rays doing in a heater?

Infrared rays are light rays located just beneath the color red in the visible light spectrum. (Think of a rainbow. We get heat on earth from the infrared rays of the sun. So, infrared electric heaters mimic the heating action of our primary heat source--the sun!

So now that we've established what infrared electric garage heaters do--and how they do it--let's look at the specific benefits:

Benefits of electric garage heaters:

• Simple, straightforward thermostat control.
• No unpleasant smell, no combustion by-products.
• Rapid heating of garage spaces.
• No dangerous open flame (as with propane heaters)