4th gear is quiet because that is the 1:1 direct drive gear without sprockets transferring the power. Cor
> On Nov 13, 2015, at 10:13 AM, John Lussmyer <cou...@casadelgato.com> wrote: > > On Fri Nov 13 09:53:14 PST 2015 ev@lists.evdl.org said: >> I am always surprised how much more noise a regular >> ICE vehicle makes and how I in my EV am sitting in total quiet and even >> hear the motor of Hybrids around me turn off while waiting at the light >> while people in their noisy ICE need to turn the volume of music or >> hands free phone conversation way up to hear their partners, while I can >> have a conversation at normal low volume in my car. That is probably >> also why the Leaf seems noisy, because it does not have a noise maker to >> cover the road noise. > > Just think what the difference is for me with my EV Truck! > With the EV, you discover that the manual transmission can be quite noisy! > (I like to use 4th now, since it is very quiet) > Then I jump into my Diesel truck - and have to crank the stereo up just to be > able to hear it over the engine noise. > > > -- > > Worlds only All Electric F-250 truck! > http://john.casadelgato.com/Electric-Vehicles/1995-Ford-F-250 > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
