I'm an engineer, I read the specs...
my house has a heat pump with aux elec heat...only kicked on a few times last year...
the house is 2600 ft^2 and my electric bill averaged <120/month last winter...
including lights, cooking, clothes wash/dry, etc. everything....
the ASHRAE tables put us <10F very seldom...
the avg low/high in Jan is 19/38F
but on the average winter days of 20-40F a 60F garage would be nice...
it stayed above freezing with no heat on a 0F day...
if it was 30F OA, it was ~45F in the garage...
plus a nice hot V8 adds some BTU's as it cools
I lost a lug on my electirc meter on new years weekend, the OA was~10F, my house dropped from 70 to only 55 in >12 hrs, not bad...NO heat...
NC is almost the perfect zone for a heat pump...