None of these heat pumps do what we normally think of, from what home HVAC heat pumps do ... i.e. suck heat out of the outside air and pump it up to the interior.
Our Ioniq had a heat pump, and yes, it was an actual heat pump - the battery was air cooled on that generation afterall, so there was no interaction between the two.
It worked very well and would maintain the cabin temp in extreme cold for around 1kw or less after the electric grid heating had got the initial chill load. My sister has a Kia Soul EV without the cold climate package that included the heat pump and it uses *way* more power to maintain cabin temp.
and the only time the battery pack would normally require active cooling are under high-ambient conditions when the A/C is running anyhow,
You may be surprised - in the summer after my Volt has been parked in the sun all day and then I hop in and drive home, when I plug in I'll often hear the battery cooling fire up. Sometimes it'll even start on the drive home - I can easily tell as the vent temps increase as some of the AC's BTU's are sapped away by the battery cooling loop heat exchanger.
It'll often do the same after leaving home on a full battery in the summer, making a fully depleting drive, and then returning home - plug in and the cooling comes on.
Need to crank up the temp to 24-25C to actually feel anything. Below that...totally useless. Thought it was only my car, but my neighbour and buddy have the same issues with their Gen2 Volts.
This was a common complaint on the Gen1's as well and seems to be due to the way GM programmed the cars to heat up gently/slowly in the interest of extending the battery. Having the car go insane with the electric heating to have hot air blasting out very quickly (and for a long time) is much harder on the range.
GM clandestinely showed off the next Equinox during the Silverado intro,
Not sure about "clandestine", there was a whole page on the Silverado website that showed it in pretty good detail. Still there:
The Electric Future of Chevrolet
$100 fully refundable deposit is all it took.
Being over a year away from production LOL.... I wouldn't be too excited if I was GM.
Kinda like the Cybertruck, which was supposed to be on sale by now...and now maybe next year. Or a few years after that.
Curious comparison.