14 July 2009

Is silence golden, or dangerous?

We drove the prototype Renault be bop ZE electric car yesterday at a quiet location north of Paris.

As with other EVs we have tried, the silence is the most interesting thing. And we wonder how much quieter our cities will be in the near to medium future?

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There are a number of declared concerns about the quietness of EV and hybrid vehicles, which are neatly discussed up in this piece from The New York Times.

We'd plump for keeping them quiet and using a bicycle bell ...

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