• Seefra 1@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    Idk, I find that at low speeds electric cars are louder than modern internal combustion. They have that SciFi drone sound.

    • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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      12 hours ago

      not all of them. there’s a couple in my city that make no noise when driving slowly. they’re so quiet, you can hear their tires popping as they run over small pebbles on the road.

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      14 hours ago

      Depending on the year model of the car, it might not make that sound. It wasn’t required on some of the earlier EVs, which could be eerily quiet. I believe it’s required by law on newer models. Pre-2016 Volts has a “pedestrian horn button”; 2016 and newer Volts play a noise continuously as lower speeds. (My Uncle says it sounds like the warp drive hum on the original Star Trek Enterprise.)