Your Heat Pump Just Got Stronger: How a 20% Power Boost Signals a New Era for Home Heating and Cooling
The Rise of Software‑Defined HVAC Why Quilt’s Update Matters Most people think of heating, ventilation and air‑conditioning (HVAC) equipment as fixed hardware—once installed it runs the same way until it fails. Quilt, a Bay Area startup founded by veterans from Nest, Google, Apple and Tesla, is challenging that paradigm by turning the heat pump into a software‑defined appliance. Quilt’s two‑zone ductless system already boasted impressive efficiency ratings (SEER2 25 and HSPF2 12). Yet in September 2025 the company released an OTA update that boosted heating and cooling capacity by more than 20 % techcrunch.com. The update raised the outdoor unit’s cooling output from 19,700 BTU/hr