Some - not all - EVs before whatever the date was had sound emitters that could be changed or turned off. My Zoe was one - three choices of sound, or silent. A Leaf of the same age had no such option; you couldn't turn off the noise.
Since the change in the law, new EVs have to have a low speed sound emitter that cannot be be silenced.
It's a problem that time will deal with.
Certainly I tried running the Zoe in carparks and the like without the sound, and yes, people don't hear you come up behind them. So I did the right thing, and carried on doing that.
At anything over about ten, they make pretty much the same noise as an ICE car.
I don't think that they are silent, exactly, at any speed, but your ears are not attuned to hearing just tyre noise and thinking "that's a car". So that causes the problem.
Last edited by: Crankcase on Tue 3 Nov 20 at 12:07
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