On 17 Jan 2013 at 13:55, Kent Barnes wrote: > Why are we still trying to add sounds to bev's? The feds already dumped > the idea as unnecessary.
On 17 Jan 2013 at 11:46, Bruce EVangel Parmenter wrote: > It was several Automakers that thumbed their nose to noisy EVs laws, > that they were not going to bother with it. These points surprise me. I just recently read that in early January, NHTSA officially proposed the under-18-mph-noise rule. (Strange number, btw. Why 18mph? Why not 15? Why not 20? It doesn't even seem to be a converted metric speed; 30 km/h is 18.64mph, which rounds to 19mph.) Besides, it seems to me that any time I read about a major automaker's EV, I read that it has a low-speed noisemaker, presumably because of all the racket (sorry) that's been made about the issue. The Leaf has one; in earlier models it could be disabled, but not in the 2012 models. The Mitsubishi iMiev has one, and the new Renault Zoe does too, even though it's so far offered only in Europe. Personally, I don't like the idea (and that's putting it mildly), but it would appear to be a moot point. Law or no, want them or no, we get them. I just hope they don't make us retrofit our conversions. Of course, they haven't outlawed diagonal cutters. However, I suppose that anybody who clips the wires to his EV's noisemaker's speaker would have to answer to his insurance company, should he ever clip a pedestrian. David Roden EVDL Administrator http://www.evdl.org/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
