Whatever happened to Paddon's Kona EV rally car that he was promising would have external artificial engine noise ?
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Whatever happened to Paddon's Kona EV rally car that he was promising would have external artificial engine noise ?
It eventually had some kind of noise, but nothing that I (or people?) expected. Just some electric whistle/buzz.
Richard Millener really struggled to explain the merits of having hybrid units on Rally1 cars in a chat with Dirtfish.
I got the feeling that marketing and imaging were getting in the way of their core business of selling customer cars!!!!
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/did-s...hybrid-in-wrc/
i think his point could be right, on the "on technical rallies, the differences would be bigger". it'd be cool if they run one non hybrid at one of these events, but with someone like Loeb, so we coudl actually see what a good driver can do against the hy cars. but imo the general point is that, as they said, the non hy car looks awesome both live and on tv and it would cost half of the price. and if you remove those extra 100kg they would be faster. fine, it would be dangerous, so, idk, keep 50kg for safety, whatever. the last point would be: "would we have more teams and privateers?
Totally.
The only real issue with electric rally cars is the lack of noise, especially at low speeds. Both for "entertainment", safety and to hear what the driver is actually doing (braking/acceleration).
So sound generator dictated by rules would be mandatory. Consumer electric cars already have it for low speeds.
The only version I heard from Paddons car sounded weird. But maybe it is better live. Taycan artificial sound is quite good live for example.
The big question is whether you need to have artificial gears like that mode in Ioniq 5N. If so it could again be set in the rules.
Sure, the non-N can now so why not?
Of course, it may depend on what you accept as rallying.