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Inexpensive Heated Gloves

Do you have a heated jacket/vest? Keep your core warm and the rest follows. I've been fine down to 30 degrees with a heated jacket and heated grips.
 
The keep your core thing has never worked for me. My hands get cold and I always have heated grips and a heated jacket.
Cheap is cheap. If you're going to use the cheap gloves for commuting, you'llwear them out in no time. Moto gloves are reinforced in the high wear points and still allow you to feel the grips.
If you have hand guards, look into Hippo Hands. They're ugly but work great. I have them on my Vstrom and with heated grips, I can wear light weight summer gloves all year long.
 
You could try the gloves, and see what you think. I'd rather buy gloves I've tried on locally. The actual glove not just that model, because I find variability (e.g. a lump or loose bit in the thumb tip of one glove that isn't in another). Last time I was in glove shopping, Scuderia West had battery operated gloves that I wanted to buy, but they didn't have my size.

As far as the warm your core instead arguments, from what I've seen in online forum posts keeping the core warm works better to keep the hands warm for people with smaller hands. For me, keeping the hands warm helps warm my core better than warming my core helps warm my hands.

As far as ordinary handguards, at freeway speed they only help a little: I found they made about a single heat setting difference in Oxford heated grips. They do something but not nearly as much as either heated grips or heated gloves. There are weather specific ones that may do more, but regular handguards or even handguard backbones allow you to run bar muffs which help a lot. The hand guards keep the bar muffs from pressing your levers at speed.

I don't see why people think of heated gloves & grips as either/or. Your heated grips are always on the bike whenever your hands or your body get a little cold. Add heated gloves for cold Winter days or whenever it will get really cold. With heated grips, those battery operated gloves could be plenty
 
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In the past I've seen guys post about handlebar muffs. I've never used them but the idea makes sense.
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Not a glove, but glove adjacent!
 
I have a pair of these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LWK5SLA/

They're decent, but the batteries won't last for a long ride (> 3 hours). But you can get larger batteries separately.

Plus they get super-sweaty after a long ride and once you've washed them, they take ages to dry....
 
If you have hand guards, I just posted a set of Hippo Hands for sale.
 
First, nothing works like heated gloves when really cold.

I have two short fingers that do not like the cold (table saw). A hand guard to keep the wind off really helps. I have used grip muffs and they work well takes some time to get used to. I now use Lee Parks DeerSports with the Phase Change Insulation, which works well until it gets freezing. Had a pair of elec glove liners, you need a bigger pair of gloves for them to fit well. Just bought the insulated Aerostich Elkskin gloves at their popup, but have not tried in the cold yet.

For really cold: Warm and safe jacket and Warm and safe gloves.
 
If you decide on heated gloves, be sure to try them on first. I have a pair of Cycle Gear heated gloves, and they are very stiff, and difficult to get on and off. I also have a pair of heated glove liners. I don't recommend them, as you have to have a pair of larger gloves to use them comfortably, so you might as well get heated gloves. I also have heated grips, and would buy them before gloves. They are always there, nothing extra to carry, and I've found that even with the gloves on, the palm of my hand gets cold from the proximity of the cold metal bar. I bought the Koso brand grips as they have the control built into the left grip, making the install easier and cleaner without the separate control mounting necessary with others.
 
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