How can I add after-market engine sound to a silent electric car? I like my new Spark EV. It’s great for all those short, run-around-town errands that gulp gasoline in my other car. However, frequently in residential neighborhoods I come up behind bike riders or pedestrians in the middle of the ro…

Playing cards in the hubcaps?, fun with spoked wheels when we were kids on bikes. Seriously I hear your issue, Used to rely on sound for cars approaching while walking a lane in the lot, Now definitely relying on my eyes. Maybe an auxiliary horn that is less of an offensive sound than a regular ho…

Patience. It’s been realized that the deaf cannot hear EVs, creating a hazard. There’ll be something out soon. Perhaps even in one of the attached links. http://www.bing.com/search?q=artificial+sound+generators+for+cars&form=PRHPCS&pc=HPDTDFJS&mkt=en-us&refig=8f3f4842d30a4963abeaa0b8f9d09b9e&pq=art…

Following @Barkydog 's thought line, it could be a “La Cucaracha” loop that plays forever. That’ll make a lot of friends (not). Or at least when the driver calls on it. Of course, if you use a sound loop, children might flock to you thinking the ice cream truck is in the neighborhood. What about a …

I think “the silent EV” is exaggerated. How loud is a Lexus engine? All I ever hear from most cars is tire noise.

@ Insightful,all I know is the ATVs powered by electricity are quiet enough to slip up on game with(a big selling point on the “Bad Boy” buggies)

Insightful, I’m not deaf and, unless I miss my guess, you aren’t either. It would be an injustice for us to not take the hearing impaired at their word when their safety is at stake. I choose to believe them.

In the 60s J.C.Whitney offered an electronic device that broadcast 50 - 100 short musical tunes to a speaker mounted in the grill. I guess most can imagine the list of tunes; Charge, Road Runner, Taps, etc. I would imagine a similar device is available today. Well that was easy enough. Here it is. …

Maybe a few bars of “Walkin the floor over you” or “who let the dogs out”, or “Flight of the bumble bee” or 'Grandma got run over by a reindeer". Yosemite

Adding Sound to an Electric Car

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jtsanders August 31, 2015, 12:26am 2

Loud radio with the windows open?

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