The BMW EV Sound Project Needed Help From Hans Zimmer
Image: BMW Your engine is a speaker, or at least your internal combustion engine was. But the motor in any electric car is definitely not a speaker. Electric cars have no exhaust note, and carmakers are still trying to figure out what to do about the loss of one of the best sensory aspects of driving. Advertisement BMW has asked Hans Zimmer — ofHollywoodfame — for help making new EV sounds, and it’s given us a small soundbite of what it calls “BMW IconicSounds Electric,” which is just the sound of its upcoming EV M cars: It sounds about right, like how you would expect a futuristic...