Re: [EVDL] Vehicle Noise (was Leaf buying thread0

[Cor van de Water via EV]

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  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.
> 
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[EVDL] Vehicle Noise (was Leaf buying thread0

[John Lussmyer via EV]

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.


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