We all hate those winter mornings when it’s so cold that sitting in a car seat that’s frozen is uncomfortable. All of us have been there. Most cars have ways to control the temperature inside. And just like any other system, climate control uses a lot of electricity.

But what if you could make the heat hit you instead of the area around you? So, that’s what Tesla has done with its lineup of cars.

So, here’s the answer to the question of whether or not Tesla cars have heated seats.

Both the front and back seats of a Tesla are heated to help you feel less stressed on cold days. For more comfort, you can get heated seats and a heated steering wheel. Also, the company has a massage module that uses your seat’s air bladder to ease back pain.

Tesla made their seats to be as comfortable and effective as possible for the people who sit in them. Keep reading to learn more about the many features that Tesla’s seats have.

How to Adjust Tesla Seat Heaters’ Temperature

To get a better range and performance out of your car, you need to make sure the temperature inside is right before you drive. Tesla suggests getting warm about 30–45 minutes before you leave.

But the time it takes to warm up can change depending on how hot the air around it is. When it is warmer outside, your car will heat up faster than when it is freezing.

You don’t have to use a thermometer or check the car by hand to see if it’s warm enough to get in. The good news is that the mobile app will let you know when your car has reached the temperature you want for preconditioning.

Here’s how to warm up the seats in your Tesla.

Using Tesla’s Touch Screen

On the dashboard of a Tesla, you can choose to warm up the front seats. To do this, touch the front seat icon and choose between settings 1, 2, and 3 for the heater (highest).

When the seat icon with the twisting lines turns red, your seat is getting warmer. You can also choose the Auto setting, which warms the front seats based on the temperature inside the car.

Using Tesla Mobile App

Seat heaters that need to be adjusted by hand will soon be a thing of the past. In a recent software update, Tesla added automatic seat heating. The feature changes the temperature of the seats to match the temperature of the cabin.

When it’s cold, the seat heater is turned all the way up and slowly turned down until the seat temperature is just right. The seat heater will turn off by itself at this point.

If you’d rather set up manually, you can switch between manual and automatic setup using the app on your phone.

Here’s How You Can Warm Up Your Cabin and Batteries

Using Tesla’s Default Auto Climate Control

The climate control is set to auto by default, which keeps the car warmer inside.

If you choose “Auto,” the system will change the air conditioning, heating, fan speed, and air flow to keep you warm.

Using Tesla’s Touch Screen

On the screens for your climate control and battery charging, you can choose the Schedule option. Press it and set a time for when you want your car to be warm enough to drive before you get in.

If you heat your car before you drive, especially while it’s charging, you’ll get a few more miles out of it.

Using Tesla Mobile App

Go to the Climate section of your Tesla mobile app and set the temperature to a level that will warm up your car.

You can also choose a Defrost Car option from the Climate menu. When you defrost your car, the snow, frost, and ice on the mirrors, windshield, and windows melt.

It also heats up the high-voltage battery that your car needs to run.

Benefits of Heated Seats in Your Tesla

Even though it may seem obvious, heated seats have health benefits that are important to your health. Here are a few reasons why heated seats are good.

It Keeps You Warmer

Most people don’t dress too warmly when driving in the winter. So, drivers will find that their cars are freezing around the points where the two parts touch.

Some of these are the back, the thighs, and the hands.

Even though the climate control system can raise the temperature inside the car, it’s not enough to keep your seats warm. So, it’s important to find better ways to stay warm.

Heated Seats Alleviate Chronic Back Pain

People who have back pain find that heated car seats help ease the stiffness they feel while driving.

If you can’t drive in one position without your back hurting, you might want to look into heated seats.

Some things can cause lower and upper back pain.

Poor posture

When muscles and ligaments are used too much outside of driving,

Compression fractures

Improper lifting techniques

Arthritis

Fibromyalgia

Spine problems

And since you might be sitting in your Tesla for a long time, you should be in the most comfortable position for you.

Also, you can stop whenever you feel like the pain in your back is getting worse.

To avoid this, use the feature that warms up the seat. Heat calms down tense muscles, improves blood flow to your back, and stops pain signals from getting to your brain. Because of this, you’ll have less back pain.

It Saves You Time

If you count on the climate control in your Tesla to warm up your car, you’ll have to wait longer before you can drive away.

This is because seat heaters are more targeted and heat up faster.

Also, you won’t lose much power from the batteries in your car. Since the Tesla doesn’t have an engine, it will heat up faster than diesel and gas cars.

Vehicles that run on fossil fuels use the extra heat from their engines to warm up the inside. We all know that Teslas are completely electric.

Final Thoughts

Robert Ballard, who worked for General Motors at the time, came up with heated car seats in 1951. They were first used in a mass-produced 1966 Cadillac DeVille.

Over the years, not much has changed, but Tesla plans to add liquid-cooled and -heated seats to save battery power.

We’ll have to wait and see how good these seat warmers are, but their air-cooled and heated ones are doing pretty well right now.

If you have an older model, such as an older version of the Model 3, you can go to a Tesla store or call the company to turn on the back seat heaters.

But the upgrade won’t come cheap—you’ll have to pay $300 for it.