I’m glad that Porsche has finally decided to catch up with Nissan and BMW – the only two brands that are taking this issue seriously – to engineer fake exhaust sounds for electric cars.
This is a major problem, in my opinion, and no one is thinking about it. Safety is definitely part of the conversation, which is why Nissan is creating a fake exhaust sound for the Leaf, but there’s something else: when V8s, V12s and V10s are retired, do you really want supercars and sportscars to be silent?
Web magazine CarBuzz has found documents revealing a couple of trademark applications filed by Porsche. They’re basically trying to develop a noise simulator to make electric vehicles louder and nicer to listen to. At the moment, you get some acoustic, annoying ’beep’ at best.
This is important, sound plays a key part in the emotional value, so to speak, of a car. If the car is electric, I don’t want it to sound like a V8 because it would be fake, and it’d probably be annoying, but I think BMW is onto something here, because the sound they’ve developed (with Hollywood composer Hans Zimmerman) sounds kinda nice. Hopefully Porsche can do the same.
I’ve crossposted this article on my Drivetribe account.
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