Fake Engine Noise
- Thread starter Trainmaster
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Hahahaha yuk yuk yuk. Real talk though I’d be happy with an all electric cehicle given it’s reliable and the charging infrastructure is there.
Electric vehicles have their own issues. Your battery pack on many takes up the whole bottom portion of the car and has a lifespan of 125-200k miles, where a gasoline engine will easily go 300k plus, and is relatively inexpensive to rebuild. To swap the battery cells is insanely expensive. Also need to mention lithium mining and disposals harmful effects. Tesla and many others are absolutely riddled with electrical and computer problems and have major reliability issues.
It takes the equivalent of driving 15,000 miles in pollution to build a Toyota Corolla. It takes the equivalent of driving 85,000 miles in pollution to build a Toyota Prius. So if you really care about saving the planet buy a stripped down Corolla. (it will make you a better driver as well because you can keep both hands on the wheel as you will not be patting yourself on the back like a Prius driver does.)
JExpe said above, the mining and disposal of batteries and components are destructive to the planet. So the "green people" are not as green as they think.
JExpe said above, the mining and disposal of batteries and components are destructive to the planet. So the "green people" are not as green as they think.
There are plenty of environmental issues with getting crude from the earth as well so to limit pollution comparisons to what comes out of the tail pipe is a little disengenuous. I don’t want electric because I’m a self righteous pat myself on the back type, power wise it’s a better platform and has fewer moving parts. Batteries will continue to evolve and the tech will get better. Gas autos will be looked at as primitive tech probably within my lifetime. There is a video of a Tesla towing a Ferrari while drag racing the same Ferrari and the Tesla wins. It’s hard to argue with displays like that.
This is a little throw off topic but with the fake engine noise some electric cars do and porpously force the continuous drive transmission to act like it's shifting gears by throwing a delay between certain speeds is ok and what's not BUT if your county uses coal plants to generate electrical power isn't all that smoke from burning coal causing more harm to the environment than what a single gasoline engine produces in a life time?
I’m no fan of coal or fake engine noise. We’ll go solar as soon as we can, hopefully within the next 5 years. We are already making the switch to high efficiency items like HVAC and appliances. Just installed two 23.5 seer hvac with multi zone system for the house and while it wasn’t cheap up front it’s make a huge difference in our energy consumption.
The fake noise on electric cars is being pushed by hearing impaired groups. It may become law. My friends Nissan Maximum has paddle shifters.... for a CVT?!?!?!
The noise for the deaf makes sense to me, heck even I have stepped off the curb just to be surprised by a quiet auto. As for the CVT, I’ve driven them a couple times and thought it felt soulless, it’s bad enough that you can’t get a stick hardly in anything but paddle shifters in a CVT i really don’t get.The fake noise on electric cars is being pushed by hearing impaired groups. It may become law. My friends Nissan Maximum has paddle shifters.... for a CVT?!?!?!
