Disable 2025 Hybrid External Speaker?

[Darnon]

Also you can get the F-150 hybrid right now for the same price as gas only.

Gets you +20 additional horsepower and +60 lb-ft torque going with the FREE hybrid upgrade. Just learned of this on the build & price tool. They discount you the amount of the former hybrid upcharge.

Too bad they nixed it as an option on the XL trim a few years ago.

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[oysterville]

So Ima rain on your parade a bit. I own a pre 2021 Tesla. It doesn’t make any synthetic humming sound.

It’s only the people with moderate to severe hearing loss that can’t hear me creeping along in a parking lot under 5 mph. And by 10 mph virtually all people hear it, or they feel vibrations or feel air movement or something that alerts them. But they somehow know and they turn around and look to see what the possible hazard is.

And yeah, the first time an old person has a silent ev creep up on them, it can startle them. But then they learn that sound profile and it no longer startles them.

I’ve been driving my near silent EV for over 100k miles, so I have seen hundreds and hundreds of peoples’ responses to the sound. and to be honest, it is not nearly silent. I mean, the powertrain is nearly silent, but the movement is not. Rubber scrubbing the pavement, small pebbles stuck in tire treads, small pebbles on the pavement being kicked up and moved by the tires hitting them, and the sound of rushing wind.

Older EV’s have a distinct profile that 95% of the population can hear, so the real risk to pedestrians is quite low. And that explains why the government didn’t mandate this 1/3rd octave humming profile until after EV’s had been on the road for over a decade.

Anecdotal vs empirical evidence, a battle as old as time.

 

[HeyBales]

Anecdotal vs empirical evidence, a battle as old as time.

Ya, if it's a totally quiet parking lot, not as bad.
Throw in real life though - noisy street very close by, wind hitting the ear wrong, other cars in lot, music being played outside the store, ect.
I walk on correct side of street/parking lot path, ect - so when a silent car creeps up on me I'm on correct side at least. They would have to be blind hitting me pulling into a space if I didn't see them.
Most people I've seen don't walk the correct side in parking lot, it's whatever it ended up being.
I have little experience in downtown walking, so I'm always looking around and not assuming on cross-walks. But I bike ride those walking-encouraged areas after rush hour traffic is gone - and walkers are idiots way too often, to me and noisy cars. Step a couple times then look up from phone.

 

[The Real Maverick]

People who want to disable the sound for "hunting" purposes are kidding themselves.

For 15 years I had an Escape Hybrid.
No artificial noise makers at all.

The amount of noise your tires and EV motors make in a quiet place is astonishingly loud. Drive on dirt or gravel and you might as well be dragging a rake across the ground.

Quiet when in Park, yes. Which is what your Hybrid Maverick does stock.

 

[daddio211]

People who want to disable the sound for "hunting" purposes are kidding themselves.

For 15 years I had an Escape Hybrid.
No artificial noise makers at all.

The amount of noise your tires and EV motors make in a quiet place is astonishingly loud. Drive on dirt or gravel and you might as well be dragging a rake across the ground.

Quiet when in Park, yes. Which is what your Hybrid Maverick does stock.

Agreed, but I'll take any advantage I can. I don't drive in and setup three feet from my truck. Walking in makes noise and spreads scent that animals detect - those are likely bigger factors than the noise the vehicle makes.

I will say though, scanning with thermal from my buddy's stock Duramax versus scanning from my Maverick, coyotes respond negatively much sooner to the Duramax with stock exhaust than my hybrid Maverick. If I can park undetected and walk through the sage brush a few hundred yards still undetected, my percentage of success climbs significantly.

 

[MakinDoForNow]

Some like external speakers.......m

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