Electric vehicles are greener and cleaner – but are they too eerily quiet? Legislators in Europe and the United States think so. On July 1, a new European Union law takes effect that requires electric ...

Electricity is all around us, and even inside us. The presence of electricity has really skyrocketed in the past century, however, with the development of electronics. Today, our homes and communities ...

As electric cars become more popular, engineers, driven by government regulators, are crafting the sounds that will define the highways of the future. By Niraj Chokshi Two years ago, Nissan hired the ...

I sleep on the second floor, in a bedroom facing a residential street in Brooklyn. Through the years, my sleeping brain has grown used to the nighttime noises of motor vehicles: mainly the growls of ...