Hyundai's EVs already fake engine sounds, and now they might vibrate too.
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Hyundai's EVs already fake engine sounds, and now they might vibrate too. The fake gears everyone called a gimmick became the template Porsche, Mercedes-AMG, and BMW M all copied, and Hyundai isn't finished yet 5 hours ago * Hyundai wants to make its EVs even more engaging to drive every day. * Future EVs will use the company's new IMA architecture as their base. * Upcoming models could gain richer ICE-inspired sounds and vibrations. A few years ago, with serious doubt hanging over whether any carmaker could build an EV that put driver engagement first, Hyundai dropped the Ioniq 5 N. It came with an ICE-inspired soundtrack and fake gears, and it kicked off a trend that Porsche, Mercedes-AMG, and BMW M have since chased down and copied. What looked like a gimmick turned out to be the template. As Carscoops recently discovered while testing the Ioniq 6, these fun features have been made even more realistic, and Hyundai believes it can improve them further. According to Hyundai's global R&D boss, Manfred Harrer, the car manufacturer still considers itself a leader in this technology. "In the next generation of these cars, I want to make it even more realistic," he told Autocar. "I want to enhance it further." According to Harrer, they could further develop the sounds of a backfiring exhaust and add "vibration in the car," confident that this could usher in the "next...
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Hyundai has been developing the Integrated Modular Architecture for several years and could launch it in 2028 in the second-gen Ioniq 5.
