In China some cities require cars that belch out pollution to have expensive permits to use the roads. This has provided quite an incentive for people to go ele

In China some cities require cars that belch out pollution to have expensive permits to use the roads. This has provided quite an incentive for people to go electric as there is no permit to pay. Consequently there are places in China where lots of people have already gone electric. These Chinese market electric cars are not as fancy inside as your plush Jaguar or Tesla, they have bits of hard plastic everywhere rather than an exuberance of leather (or 'vegan leather'). The people that buy these cars really like them as the comfort comes from the silence, not the novelty cup holders/infotainment systems and other nonsense that motorists in the West think they need these days. They still have to sit in gridlock and they still have to give up a lot of their day to the demands of the commute. From the glimpse into the future afforded by what is going on in China I suspect that these fake car noise things are not what the customer really wants. Tranquillity is much nicer than gimmickry. It is as simple as that. Might as well get some work done if you are a passenger in one of these cars or enjoy some quality time with your social media apps on your phone. There is no need to get your inner nine year old out, the cheap thrills of spaceship noises get boring if listened to every day, the novelty wears off. The other thing is that these affordable electric cars will be coming here soon. Complete with hard plastic interiors. Imaginably there will be Trump taxes and tariffs that make these cars expensive compared to a 'Chicken Tax' SUV/truck, however, if there was to be free trade then these cars will be half the price of these up-market Jaguar things. They might not have the 'ludicrous mode' but who needs that if you are inching through bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic? These affordable EVs might not have fake whooshing noises inside the cab, so the question then becomes one of would you really want to pay for that? Why would anyone pay $$$ for these funny noises that a cheap toy designed for a nine year old could make? Note that EU and other mandated exterior noises are for outside the passenger compartment, not for in it. If you had one of these cars and you could download an app that used your phones sensors to play fake whooshing noises to make up for the absence of in-built fakery, would you bother? I suspect that within a generation or two people will reject the noise of the internal combustion engine, even if V12 and turbocharged. It will be as anachronistic as wanting to hear horse hoof clatter and the whip of a buggy whip. But we are not there yet, hence the fakery.