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You are responding to an article about EVs in the USA with data for Europe. But lets stick with Europe and your PDF. You have cherry picked the exact one plac
by lowbloodsugar 3y ago
You are responding to an article about EVs in the USA with data for Europe.
But lets stick with Europe and your PDF.
You have cherry picked the exact one place where "EVs" are "louder". Specifically you picked:
1. A commercial EV van.
2. Traveling at 50km/h.
3. At a steady state.
In every other measurement, the EVs were quieter:
1. The passenger EV is always quieter.
2. The commercial EV is quieter at any other speed.
3. Both EVs are quieter at anything other than steady state, i.e accelerating or decelerating.
My experiences of European towns and cities are that cars stop and go a lot. In pedestrian areas or residential areas are often limited to below 50km/h.
And again, I remind you that these vehicles were themselves cherry picked and are not representative of vehicles on the road in the USA or Europe. My mum drives a diesel passenger car and it is assuredly not quieter than any EV even when it's not moving - and that's a car that is in good working order.
And even then, the conclusion from this paper is: "In urban areas where the speed it often above 30 km/h the introduction of EV’s will not have a great influence on the traffic noise."