Once you get it about the fees and prices issuesthe next problem most people face Electric cars sound like that. They argue that the hum of an electric vehicle motor is sterile or not Fans of synthesized engine notes This can also be done via speakers built into the cars. Now Maserati is hoping to win people over with a new soundscape that the company has developed for its own electric models.
Maserati unveiled its latest electric car last week and threw the covers off new GranCabrio Folgore. The electric vehicle has a triple motor that provides propulsion the convertible electric super sports car up to a top speed of 180 miles per hour. On the way to this speed, the new car features a tailored sound that, according to Maserati, “creates the connection between driver and machine”.
“The sound experience when driving a Maserati is a very important foundation, it is very important,” says Davide Danesin, Head of Maserati Engineering. “We put a huge amount of development effort into developing the right sound experience.”
During this development process, Maserati engineers analyzed the current flowing through the inverter in the electric models from Maserati. This, says Danesin, gave the company’s engineers a good idea of how the car behaved at any given time, whether accelerating, braking or waiting at traffic lights.
“The connection to the car had to be very good, it had to really match how the car worked,” explains Danesin. “The current that flows to the inverter tells us what the car is actually doing. So we based our sound on the current going to the inverter.”
However, the sound played outside was not just an amplified sound of an electric motor, as Danesin says that this “electric sound is not very pleasant to listen to due to its high frequencies.” Instead, the company looked for a slightly more extravagant sound: the screaming V8 engine Cars like the Ghibli Trofoe.
“We extracted some characteristics of our V8 and basically defined the fingerprint of the Maserati sound,” says Danesin. “And we applied this fingerprint to the modulation of the inverter. We then created a new sound, the Folgore sound of all our cars.”
The same acoustic signature is played in all three electric models from Maserati, which includes the GranCabrio Folgore, the GranTurismo Folgore and the Grecae Folgore. In each, the generated engine sound is played back through up to 21 speakers from Italian hi-fi brand Sonos Faber, with passengers in the car and those on the road outside treated to the synthesized sound.