No. I asked them and they do not intend to give the car heaters. Bad decision for driving in Europe, for example Austria or Germany.
Btw. the Nolden 7" you show above are 2nd Generation lights, the Grenadier are 3rd Generation lights.
There are some very simple reasons why you won't find heater elements in LED lights right from car manufacturers:
1. Emission
If you check some of the very rare LED lights on the aftermarket (aftermarket, not car vendor!) you see that the Daytime Running Light has a quite high power consumption. That is due to the fact that this heats the front glass. And even if the heating is turned on with the low beam, it still consukes additional power. For car manufacturers, especially volume manufacturers, that would mean an increase in CO2 average emissions which are restricted by law. That is why you primarily find heated LED in the aftermarket, not at new cars.
2. Homologation
A car light is homologated up to the front glass. Having heater lines in the front glass means a performance reduction and problems to match the homologation requirements,which vary from country to country (or UN-ECE vs. SAE if we speak about two big markets, there are even more). That is easier and costs less without these heater lines.
3. Passive cooling
A robust and reliable LED light uses passive cooling. That can't break and does not consume additional power. Cooling is the most important factor when it comes to lifetime. Some thought about and tried active cooling where a fan blows warm air behind the front glass (a variant of this are the new Osram Nightbreaker LED bulbs, which have a cooling fan attached at the end of the LED bulb. If this fan is blocked (water, mud, dirt, etc.) the LEDs are powered off to prevent damage). BTW, the Nightbreaker do not have a UN-ECE "E" mark which makes them legal in Europe, they have a national clearence (thereby not legal in France, for example). Car manufacturers required from the LED manufacturer to keep that active cooling repairable. That would have meant to be able to open the light to repair it. Doing this would have meant that you never get the light back as operational save and it would brake the homolgation of the light as its beam would never be as precise and correct as before and it would never become sealed as before again. This is why LED light manufactures stepped back from that approach, as they don't want to have the integrity of their light wrecked.
4. Is the problem itself is a real problem?
Snow covering lights is a problem if you're driving at temperatures slightly above zero degree Celsius down to around -10 degree. In deeper temperatures the snow is as dry that is does not tend to stick. Otherwise E-cars would have serious problems in Scandinavia. One thing which plays a role here is the mounting situation. Like the Defender, the G-Class, Toyotas and the Grenadier the mounting situation is not optimal and could cause problems even with dry snow. That is because it is mounted in a funnel shaped frame, where the snow can not escape. It can slightly melt and become sticky again.
However, this mentioned temperature range is a problem. I had the opportunity with my Nolden 7" to test it a few weeks ago near Cologne. Cologne is in an area where the temperature is about two degrees higher in winter than in surrounding areas and 2 degree lower in summer (very bad region for rheumatism called: Cologne-Bonn-Valley). After driving 45 km under snowing conditions I found that the LED lenses of the Nolden were able to keep up with the snow and they kept by their own emitted heat the glass in front of the lens free.
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/QjRWXqrNg3k?feature=share
If that would be a very huge/common problem, you would see more cars with heated LED lights. But you don't.
Cheers
AWo
