I have a place I could park it, I have a place to charge it, but it really doesn’t make finacial sense to purchase one.

I currently carpool to work 3 days a week, take the bus on the others, and my car is a small hatchback. Most of the limited driving I do tends to be longer distances, with the previous trip I took managing 5.5L/100km (43mpg). Even assuming a higher price of driving, I’ve done the math on currently available options, and the savings never actually materialize for my use of a vehicle with the range I want from a vehicle.

When my current car dies I’m definitely aiming for no less than a PHEV, but not before then.

Model Y doesn’t qualify. Motortrend has always required new or major revisions to a vehicle to qualify for car of the year.

under normal conditions.

Under normal conditions there isn’t much importance, as cooling to room temperature isn’t really a problem. Under abormal conditions you have a few more options for thermal management. Assuming this process has no vibrations or detracting factors, and doesn’t consume more energy for heating, I can think of situations where this may be useful. Neither application is really consumer facing, and more under the commerical side of things.

First one, would be scientific equipment that is temperature sensitive for measuring vibration in a range of extreme enviroments.

Second one - and one I think is much more compelling - would be satellites. Temperature management, and just maintaining component health, is a pretty big deal when it comes to continued operation when you can have a potential 200C temperature differential from the outside of the lit surface to the dark side of the other. Being able to retain heat better as opposed to having to engage electric heating elements during periods of low power use/thermal generation from onboard systems, would be a great change.