Saturday 28 August 2010

Could future electric vehicles be noisier?

For many consumers, electric vehicles (EVs) have the additional advantage of being much quieter than conventional-fuelled cars.
However, road safety campaigners have called for EVs to be louder in order to alert pedestrians of oncoming traffic.
This has led Toyota to bring in an Approaching Vehicle Audible System for its Prius hybrid.

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