If that approaches you at 10 kilometers an hour you can also barely hear it, so we wanted a sound which also oozes refinement for the electric car,” Hermann said. It has to be futuristic,” he said, adding that SUVs will have a deeper sound to reflect their bigger size. "We want the car to be as quiet as possible from the wholesale Electric folding bike interior, but there are rules for sound decibel levels for the exterior,” said Jochen Hermann, head of electric drive development at Mercedes-Benz. At higher speeds in sports mode, a more intense acoustic feedback is needed to make customers experience the potential of the vehicle,” Pfadenhauer told the magazine. Mercedes-AMG, a performance brand which takes pride in the loud exhaust notes from its eight and 12 cylinder combustion engines, is taking an unorthodox approach to making its future electric cars heard.VW’s electric cars will have speakers designed to draw the attention of pedestrians, Welsch said, standing next to a lime- green electric dune buggy being shown in Geneva."Sound is definitely something that will shape the car’s identity,” Bahne said. Carmakers are dreaming up futuristic electric car engine sounds to ensure that pedestrians can hear vehicles that lack audible cues like high-revving, howling combustion engines, senior executives at the Geneva car show said."Performance models need to have a more assertive sound, with more bass. end-of bmw, mercedes-bMercedes-Benz, Audi, Mini, and VW prepare to launch battery-driven vehicles. VW has already picked the sound for the Volkswagen ID compact vehicle due to hit showrooms in 2020, but it is still tweaking tones for derivatives like the dune buggy, he said. It gives you feedback about the potency and capability of the car,” he said. 

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