Published: 2 January 2014 at. 2:29 p.m.
One of the really pleasant things about running electric is the absence of noise from the fuel engine. But the soft road they silent electric cars come suddenly.
A small choir of new sounds have taken and are now tapping into the roads as more car manufacturers release new EVs coming year.
latest manufacturer out
Daimler is one of the last car manufacturers out by adding a synthetic brummelyd. The previous car manufacturers such as Renault, Toyota and Nissan added artificial sounds so that people will hear the cars come running.
While BMW and Volkswagen announced that they will not do it on their electric cars before it becomes a claim by any authorities, according to Bloomberg.
– People expect some kind of sound from a car when they have grown up with “hum hum” of gasoline vehicles, said sound engineer Christoph Meier in Daimler.
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light murmur
E-Smart car from Daimler got a murmur with a slightly higher tone than a conventional car. While the powerful electric cars get a stronger bromming to reflect motor strength.
EU is considering legislation that could make artificial sound mandatory for all electric vehicles when running at low speeds.
It is argued that especially the blind and visually impaired are dependent on some form of sound when they take themselves safely in traffic.
– Without sound we risk going straight into the road in front of a car and the driver will not be able to brake in time, says Gerhard Renzel, a blind traffic expert at the German visually impaired organization DBSV.
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Quietly selling point
On the other hand there are those who believe that a decree synthetic bromming will cause electric cars lose an edge.
– Silent Truth is one of the greatest comparative advantages. It is also a declared goal less noise in urban areas, says Stefan Bratzel, head of the Center of Automative Management at the University of Bergisch Gladbach in Germany.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took last summer suggested that electric cars should have a targeted sound from potentially vulnerable road users when they arise, rather than having to nois synthetic all the time.
Not a twitter
many of the electric cars it is possible to turn on and off the artificial hum.
Audi lydsjef Ralf Kunkel says there was no option to select a sound that mimicked a gasoline or diesel engine when the automaker was considering lydlegge its new A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid.
– We rejected the idea of ??giving the cars sounds like the chirping of birds and rustling leaves, Kunkel says Bloomberg.
Most popular gasoline car
The Danish company ECTunes are among the companies that specialize in developing sound to electric vehicles.
In a report claiming that the sounds of electric cars should be as close as possible to what people know from vehicles with internal combustion engines. Hear how they think sounds should be heard out here.
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