Electric cars mark a Wild West period in many areas, but there's one drivers likely don't often think about: the sound a car makes. The norm has been a soundtrack from whatever internal-combustion ...

Piping fake engine noise into an EV's cabin can be cringe, but there's a way to do it right and a few automakers figured it out.

LOS ANGELES — Your next car may come with its own soundtrack. Faced with the utter silence of electric cars – as opposed to the cacophony of engine noise emanating from conventional vehicles – ...

A red Corvette with a license plate reading "Suprtoy" sits amid exotic European sports cars, handmade hot rods, a 1934 Ford owned by a retired Ford car designer and even one of the first 1968 Ford ...

Engineers at Jaguar Land Rover had a problem. Like all electric vehicles, the new I-PACE was almost silent at lower speeds, and that made it potentially dangerous. In fact, research suggests that ...

One of the many benefits of electric vehicles is that they are much quieter than traditional gasoline-powered vehicles. In ...

Electric vehicle interior sound quality has emerged as a critical area of research given the markedly reduced engine noise inherent in electric drivetrains. In the absence of dominant combustion ...

Electricity is all around us, and even inside us. The presence of electricity has really skyrocketed in the past century, however, with the development of electronics. Today, our homes and communities ...

The idea was developed in cooperation with digital innovation firm The Electric Factory, a professional sound designer, and a “smart cities expert.” The group doesn’t go into too much detail on the ...

As electric cars become more popular, engineers, driven by government regulators, are crafting the sounds that will define the highways of the future. By Niraj Chokshi Two years ago, Nissan hired the ...

All electric vehicles in the U.S. will soon be required to make warning sounds so pedestrians can hear them coming. By Paul Stenquist Driving an electric vehicle in near silence can be a joy for those ...