Defroster

In a car, is it better to use cold air or warm air for the defroster when their is ice and condensation on the windshield?

Warm; you want to melt the ice/frost.

Here’s a quite extensive discussion from 2 months ago: condensation on car windows - hot or cold air?

Basically, ice requires warm air while condensation just requires the A/C to be on.

Excellent, thanks!