Electric car sounds
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Electric cars are so quiet, I can imagine they will soon have some kind of noise making device for safety.
What kind of sound , given the choice, would you like your car to make?
I would have mine going "clippitty clop" like a horse, and the noise to be tied to the speed of the car. Can you imagine what a horse galloping at ninety would sound like?
What kind of sound , given the choice, would you like your car to make?
I would have mine going "clippitty clop" like a horse, and the noise to be tied to the speed of the car. Can you imagine what a horse galloping at ninety would sound like?
Do they not already? my neighbour's car makes an annoying humming noise whenever they're coming and going and I had assumed this was artificial rather than the noise the electic motor naturally makes, but could very well be wrong.
At anything above walking pace, this idea that electric cars are silent is a fantasy. Electric cars are amongst the loudest on the road due to tyre noise and their enormous weight – in my experience, you can hear them coming long before a modern petrol car.
At anything above walking pace, this idea that electric cars are silent is a fantasy. Electric cars are amongst the loudest on the road due to tyre noise and their enormous weight – in my experience, you can hear them coming long before a modern petrol car.
Edited by billbring on Friday 15th August 22:04
I’d like them to sound like this, at about 37 seconds in
https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/141...
https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/141...
Reminds me of one of my EV-hating neighbours who endlessly complains about how little noise EVs make. He has an old Border Collie who is deaf and blind, but for some reason he walks it without a lead on roads that have no pavements. We had a laugh at him the other day protesting about a “nuisance electric car”, only it turned out to be a petrol Toyota. I’d like to think he felt like a right tit, but I doubt it.
billbring said:
At anything above walking pace, this idea that electric cars are silent is a fantasy. Electric cars are amongst the loudest on the road due to tyre noise and their enormous weight – in my experience, you can hear them coming long before a modern petrol car.
I spotted this phenomenon the other day while out walking the dog, the EV's which passed (at about 30-40mph) were certainly louder than a good few of the ICE cars. billbring said:
At anything above walking pace, this idea that electric cars are silent is a fantasy. Electric cars are amongst the loudest on the road due to tyre noise and their enormous weight – in my experience, you can hear them coming long before a modern petrol car.
By that logic the tyre noise from a HGV would be deafening if a couple of hundred kilos can make such a difference. Edited by billbring on Friday 15th August 22:04
What's probably happening is you're noticing the tyre noise because there isn't 100 mini explosions going off every second a few feet away.
ChocolateFrog said:
By that logic the tyre noise from a HGV would be deafening if a couple of hundred kilos can make such a difference.
What's probably happening is you're noticing the tyre noise because there isn't 100 mini explosions going off every second a few feet away.
As our village has expanded there’s still a 40 limit on one of the roads in off the bypass. It’s not busy, so individual vehicles’ noise is noticeable. The tyre roar from cars varies by size - probably more tyre size than anything else. BMW SUVs are noticeably very noisy, as are Teslas. A bus or truck going past is deafening but tyre roar isn’t noticeable over the mechanical noise.What's probably happening is you're noticing the tyre noise because there isn't 100 mini explosions going off every second a few feet away.
Ev pedestrian warning sounds became mandatory for new registrations after 1st July 2021. It is not retrospective, so my 2019 I3 did not have, and does not have to have the warning system.
I've been thinking of ways to add it though, as travelling through a tourist trap like Dartmouth earlier this week was 'interesting' at walking speed.
I've been thinking of ways to add it though, as travelling through a tourist trap like Dartmouth earlier this week was 'interesting' at walking speed.
Paul Drawmer said:
Ev pedestrian warning sounds became mandatory for new registrations after 1st July 2021. It is not retrospective, so my 2019 I3 did not have, and does not have to have the warning system.
I've been thinking of ways to add it though, as travelling through a tourist trap like Dartmouth earlier this week was 'interesting' at walking speed.
This is an OEM AVAS speaker, the datasheet is available from Hella so you'd just need to work out how to get a suitable feed from your wiring loom. Probably worth finding out what BMW fitted after that date, although no doubt they'll charge like a wounded rhino for the parts; perhaps a used one from a crashed i3 will be the easiest way to do it.I've been thinking of ways to add it though, as travelling through a tourist trap like Dartmouth earlier this week was 'interesting' at walking speed.
Sheepshanks said:
It varies a bit by model and seems just the same for ICE and electric cars of similar size.
That would be my observation too, i.e there is no difference. On a modern car, ICE or EV (and assuming we’re not talking about something with a loud exhaust), the dominant sound is tyre noise and the sound of a large object moving through the air.Super Sonic said:
Electric cars are so quiet, I can imagine they will soon have some kind of noise making device for safety.
What kind of sound , given the choice, would you like your car to make?
I would have mine going "clippitty clop" like a horse, and the noise to be tied to the speed of the car. Can you imagine what a horse galloping at ninety would sound like?
Dukes of Hazzard air horn sound would be good, maybe just a low volume..What kind of sound , given the choice, would you like your car to make?
I would have mine going "clippitty clop" like a horse, and the noise to be tied to the speed of the car. Can you imagine what a horse galloping at ninety would sound like?
That or a classic bicycle bell tinkle
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