Electric cars ....
 

Good Great Wonderful and a Thousand Thanks for stating the Bleedin' obvious

The obsession with electric is depressing. What are the likes of us lads going to do on a saturday - read the meter? Fit a prerecorded noise to warn pedestrians of an oncoming silent killer?

The internal combustion engine is not perfect but it's a machine, you know engineering, grease, oil, water, fire, sound, something that feels right.

Not a milk float. Milk floats were to keep quiet in the early morning so as not to waken us up when the daily protein was arriving.

Now have a nice day and get down and dirty .:devil:

Joking aside, as a Guide Dog puppy walker this is a HUGE issue for blind & partially sighted people who are, say, simply trying to cross the road.

Imagine you have no sight. Currently (no pun intended :D) you can "hear" the traffic. What do you do if you can't hear anything?

Just step out and hope for the best?

Hope you're one of the 5K who have a working Guide Dog? (There's about 200K people registered blind).

I wonder if we'll be able to choose a range of engine noises a bit like those Sat Nav voice options?

Maybe a DFV, or a BTCC RX7 rotary (now I'm giving my age away :D).

Andy.

EVs are fitted with external warning sound emitters when driving at low speeds for just this reason. In fact, I think that while it's not currently a legal requirement to have this, it will be from either next year or the year after.
PS the picture above is almost certainly fake.:D You need a specific type of generator to charge an EV like that - something to do with the sine wave, IIRC? Plus in any case, the car pictured is a BMW i3, which was likely to have its own internal petrol-powered generator known as a range-extender or REx, which in the event of running low on electricity charges the battery rather than driving the wheels.