How Audi Makes Its Electric Cars Sound Like Futuristic Gas Guzzlers

electrical railroad car run intimately tacit , which is great for minimizing noise pollution , but bad for pedestrians who ca n’t hear a vehicle approaching . So Audi isdeveloping an electronic locomotive engine roarso the troupe ’s e - Tron vehicles can still be heard .

Now you might assume that Audi just stuck a few microphones around their R8 supercar and commemorate its sounds as the locomotive engine was revved . But that ’s not the case . While they did use the sound of the gas - powered R8 as reference , for the e - Tron galvanizing version they instead developed something Audi call the Es - effectual system .

When you hit the gun — err , throttle valve — on Audi ’s e - Tron vehicle , a synthesized audio representing the vehicle ’s electric motor is generated on the fly through a series of electronics develop by the railcar maker . It sounds something like a mix between an electronic scientific discipline - fiction soundtrack , and a full - on philharmonic . But most importantly , clearly futuristic .

alternatively of blasting out from under the hood , the electric fomite ’s sounds come from a loudspeaker system locate underneath the motorcar . And in the same agency experienced power train - oral sex can tell one engine from another based just on how they sound , Audi hopes to create a unique touch audio for each of its electric vehicle . Now the idea of giving a unparalleled sound to an electric vehicle is not alone to Audi , but compare to the chirp used by vehicle like the Volt to alert pedestrians , its coming will serve galvanic cars throw their hippy - corresponding mental image . [ designboom ]

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