square comments on Honda’s affordable EV hot hatch is ‘selling like hotcakes,’ priced at $21,000

[–] square@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for your diagnosis Dr SaveTheTuaHawk, rest assured I'll give it exactly the amount of weight it deserves.

I'm pretty sure most people find irregularly spaced high-pitched buzzing noises unpleasant; smoke detectors don't play lullabies for a reason.

The lack of engine noise making every road sound and creak from the car audible is a common complaint. Just because EVs are superior, doesn't make them perfect.

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[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

It's a common and totally fair enough complaint in terms of subjective aesthetic enjoyment, but it's not physically possible that the lack of engine noise results in overall more noise which would make it necessary to turn up the stereo louder than otherwise necessary in order to drown it out. Combustion engine cars have tires too.

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[–] square@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago*

Oh no, obviously overall they're quieter, that's why you can hear all that stuff. It's always been there, just masked by the engine. I'm saying IC engines act as a kind of white noise machine that drownes out the rest, and in the absence of that, my only option is louder music.

And again, I'm not knocking EVs in general, they're superior and I'm making the switch next car purchase, but if it was possible (I know it's not) to get Rolls Royce levels of sound proofing without unreasonable costs, I would prefer it.

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