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Everybody knows electric vehicles are as silent as bicycles at city speeds and need to be equipped with artificial sound systems in order for pedestrians to hear them.
- Tesla Model S Owner Reportedly Involved In Unintended Acceleration Incident
Electric Vehicles often require special techniques to be driven properly, and the Tesla Model S is no exception – quite the contrary, actually. You have to get used to all the controls being on the central screen, the way the brake regeneration...
- Ford Asks: What Should The Focus Ev Sound Like?
So the all-electric Ford Focus EV is landing stateside in late 2011 to snub its nose at the likes of the Nissan LEAF and Mitsubishi i MiEV with its utterly conventional name that’s not even an acronym. Now Ford is asking its most important shareholders...
- Beatboxing With The Polo Gti: New Tv Spot From Singapore
Let’s get one thing straight: I’m not a huge fan of beatboxing. It’s something me and my friends were big into in junior high, but I’ve since outgrown it. Others have not. In a recent TV spot promoting the latest-generation...
- Lotus Adds Some Sound Into Hybrids And All-electric Vehicles
Electric and hybrid vehicles (when running on electric power only) have recently come in for heavy criticism from blind and partially sighted people due to the almost silent operation of the electric engine that puts them at risk as they cannot hear the...
- Cnn Reports On Silent Prius And Pedestrian
You've been waiting for this, haven't you? When gas-electric hybrids run in electric-only mode, about all you'll hear is a whir and maybe some slight wind noise. Upon the introduction of hybrids first, I read very little about the interaction...
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Take That Sgt. Jones: VW Plays Prank on Stockholm Passersby with a Beatboxing e-Up!
Everybody knows electric vehicles are as silent as bicycles at city speeds and need to be equipped with artificial sound systems in order for pedestrians to hear them.
The VW e-Up! makes no exception, and the carmaker wanted to show people the advantages of silent motoring by comparing the e-Up! to a conventional vehicle.
Read more »- Tesla Model S Owner Reportedly Involved In Unintended Acceleration Incident
Electric Vehicles often require special techniques to be driven properly, and the Tesla Model S is no exception – quite the contrary, actually. You have to get used to all the controls being on the central screen, the way the brake regeneration...
- Ford Asks: What Should The Focus Ev Sound Like?
So the all-electric Ford Focus EV is landing stateside in late 2011 to snub its nose at the likes of the Nissan LEAF and Mitsubishi i MiEV with its utterly conventional name that’s not even an acronym. Now Ford is asking its most important shareholders...
- Beatboxing With The Polo Gti: New Tv Spot From Singapore
Let’s get one thing straight: I’m not a huge fan of beatboxing. It’s something me and my friends were big into in junior high, but I’ve since outgrown it. Others have not. In a recent TV spot promoting the latest-generation...
- Lotus Adds Some Sound Into Hybrids And All-electric Vehicles
Electric and hybrid vehicles (when running on electric power only) have recently come in for heavy criticism from blind and partially sighted people due to the almost silent operation of the electric engine that puts them at risk as they cannot hear the...
- Cnn Reports On Silent Prius And Pedestrian
You've been waiting for this, haven't you? When gas-electric hybrids run in electric-only mode, about all you'll hear is a whir and maybe some slight wind noise. Upon the introduction of hybrids first, I read very little about the interaction...