Electric cars were supposed to be less noisy than internal combustion engines. In fact, they are so quiet that manufacturers have to add “pedestrian warning sounds” to make sure pedestrians can hear cars and make way for them. However I can hear them when sitting in my apartment with the windows open. Or when I’m just walking around in the city. In the end, I find some of them more noisy and annoying than internal combustion engines when they are moving at low speed.
So far the most noisy electric cars to me are Hyundai and Chevrolet.
I know they are just complying with safety regulations in their own way. After all, people can’t drive a two ton lethal silent vehicle at speed in compact and dense urban environments without at least making some sort of alien spaceship noise, for safety. But it’s making some electric cars annoying to me. So in the not so distant future, living in a city will sound like this?!
So, aside from those two, what are the other brands that are making their electric cars more noisy and annoying than cars with internal combustion engines?
It’s such baloney. ICE vehicles are allowed to make as little noise as they want, but electric vehicles have to purposefully make noise cause they’re too quiet? Rolls Royce don’t make noise, why don’t they need a noise maker.
People were getting struck by EVs. They only generate sounds at low speed. I have had people walk in front of my hybrid while in EV mode in parking lots, many people because they are all brain surgeons getting critical patient data they need to see walking to their cars.