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Re:Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-sellin... by soperj on Friday May 26, 2023 @12:05AM (#36079747)
They're definitely not silent at 60.
Re:Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-sellin... by pengaru on Friday May 26, 2023 @12:16AM (#36079834)
Relatively speaking an EVs 3s 0-60 is ~silent compared to any ICE doing the same 0-60 time.

That level of acceleration generally requires a pretty rowdy ICE with the taps wide open.

Re:Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-sellin... by buildbot on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:28AM (#36080334)
Yup, an Audi RS3 for example, is not quite when doing that at all...
Re:Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-sellin... by soperj on Friday May 26, 2023 @11:50AM (#36085767)
Honestly, as someone who bikes all the time, there's very little difference at 50km/h from the amount of sound coming from an EV vs an ICE.
Re:Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-sellin... by pengaru on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:13PM (#36086973)
> Honestly, as someone who bikes all the time, there's very little difference at 50km/h from the amount of sound coming from an EV vs an ICE.

This is about the acceleration from 0-60 in 3 seconds.

Because of how quietly a fast EV can perform this feat, the argument is that it's encouraging bad/antisocial driving behavior in general.

When an ICE does that sort of 0-60 time the whole neighborhood hears about it. That alone has a moderating effect on most drivers behavior even if their ICE vehicle is capable of it.

Re:Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-sellin... by soperj on Friday May 26, 2023 @07:04PM (#36090478)
you're not silent by the time you hit 60 even if it feels that way in the car. It makes a significant amount of noise at 30mph
Re:Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-sellin... by pengaru on Friday May 26, 2023 @08:13PM (#36090904)
> you're not silent by the time you hit 60 even if it feels that way in the car. It makes a significant amount of noise at 30mph

Everything's relative, and relative to an ICE automobile executing a 3-second 0-60 time, an EV doing the same is silent.

Silent enough to make the driver far more likely to do it and convince themselves they're doing it without being antisocial.

But at this point you're just willfully ignoring the correctness of that statement and I'm basically talking to a piece of sheetrock.

Re:Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-sellin... by soperj on Saturday May 27, 2023 @11:45AM (#36095669)
and relative to actual silence, it's not silent.
Re:Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-sellin... by asdff on Friday May 26, 2023 @12:08AM (#36079770)
https://youtu.be/ZTrfpahATpc?t=82

Seems pretty quiet in the cabin getting to 60 in under 2 seconds with the plaid.

Re:Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-sellin... by Lndlrd on Friday May 26, 2023 @12:27AM (#36079919)
You realize the cabin audio is background audio in that video -- edited to be much lower volume than the foreground narrator, right?

Like, how about I share a video of a hellcat 0-60 but turn down the audio to 1% and call it quiet?

Re:Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-sellin... by oittaa on Friday May 26, 2023 @12:20AM (#36079862)
Outside the car the tires make quite a lot noise.