Cars have to throttle up to climb hills. This is also "city driving." People seem to forget that many cities are not flat, but instead are quite hilly, or even mountainous (when a city is built a narrow valley, getting to most places often involves going up or down the sides of the valley.)
Also, it's not just cars. Frequently, semi trucks go by my apartment, hissing and wheezing their pneumatic brakes as they recover them going up the hill, or expend them going down the hill. And this isn't even an arterial road in my city!
And then there are the local motorcycle clubs that use this stroad to caravan together to places...
It would be pretty amazing if we could get around on e-bikes a lot more than we could today. Quiet, easy to ride… but in places that are not hospitable to bike riders, less safe than a car, which is likely why they won’t be adopted en masse.
- In most of the city shots, you can clearly hear that road/tire noise and honking are by far the loudest noises. EVs won't change this.
- In the Delft segment, a train was the most significant source of noise so they removed it. Yes, public transit is incredibly loud, much louder than cars.
- The video specifically says that road/tire noise is louder than engine noises for most cars at certain speeds. EVs won't change this.
- Cars are not at all the loudest vehicles he measures, and heavy cars were louder than lighter ones. EVs are significantly heavier than equivalent ICE cars.
- He specifically says that EVs are probably worse noise offenders at higher speeds due to being heavy and having wider tires.
- He specifically measured passing Teslas and they were the exact same loudness as ICE cars.
Hence the arguments make my point for me: EVs are not going to improve city noise levels much if at all. I dislike noise too. But EVs are not the solution here (and if you've ever listened to most public transit, neither is that).
source?
https://jalopnik.com/trucks-and-suvs-are-now-over-80-percent...
60% suvs 20% pickups 20% cars
suvs are the biggest culprit, they’ve eaten the entire car market - some manufacturers only manufacture 1 or 2 models of cars at all now
some people like to hand wave crossovers away, but they’re bigger, heavier, and less efficient than most sedans that they replaced from 10 years ago
Transverse engine FWD based drivetrains, unibody construction, shared floorpans, key dimensions and platforms with sedans/wagons hatches, all the things that are characteristic of a modern crossover are very much mutually exclusive with the things that are characteristic of a truck or truck based SUV.