“The trooper stepped up and immediately told me my car’s exhaust was way too loud and was disturbing the peace,” Mike continued. “I tried telling him it’s an EV and doesn’t have an exhaust or an engine, and he stated he’s not gonna argue with me.” [More]
The loudest thing I heard was that obnoxious and wholly unnecessary yelping coming from the copmobile. And what’s with “the officer”? The public doesn’t deserve to know this petty Barney Fife’s name?
Interesting, though, that Dodge feels the need to make their EV Charger sound like something not driven by George Jetson.
[Via Michael G]
True story:
There I was at “oh dark thirty” sitting patiently at idle at a red light in my fire breathing 68 Nova with the infamous 230 CID econo six banger when a cop flags me to pull over and tells me to start up the engine.
“But the engine is already running, Officer Friendly!”
“Well, rev it up then!”, he responded officially! (little “Tom Swifty” there)
So I went pedal to the metal and the engine went from inaudible to barely audible.
At which Officer Friendly responded “Well I guess all that noise I heard wasn’t you then. Move along!”
Some have reported that people are being injured because Teslas ( and other EVs are too quiet. ( :-O) and there are calls to have them include some form of noise making device to make pedestrians (more) aware of their presence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty