The sound of an electric car? Choose one

Driving at low speed, electric cars make very little noise. This might turn out to be a problem for pedestrians and cyclists, as they are very much accustomed to sounds to registrer approaching vehicles. To help solve this problem, it is being considered to equip electric cars with a sound to be played at low speed.

This sound should be appropriate for the electric car and the situation. The sound should not be percieved as bothering or even frightening or scary. It should be audible by pedestrians and cyclists in the general "sound scape", but it should not be annoying to those people living close by. Also, you must not get annoyed of the sound after some time.

The sounds are designed by these three companies for the exclusive purpose of this test.

- DELTA SenseLab
- Sonic Branding
- Mads Stenhøj, student of audio design at Aarhus Universitet

- Read about the sound of an electric car in the press

- See the voting results