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Yamaha Designed a Fake Motor for EV Motorcycles That Makes Noise and Vibrates
Yamaha hopes to make an EV motorcycle sound and feel like a gasoline-powered bike with a fake, but working, motor. But is that the goal of an EV?
The driver of the saddle-type vehicle, which is powered by the aforementioned reciprocating engine, feels excited by experiencing the sound and vibration generated by his own accelerator operation." It adds, "The saddle-type electric vehicle powered by the motor does not burn gasoline, etc., so it does not produce intake sounds, exhaust noises, and vibrations like conventional reciprocating engines. Basically, Yamaha added a fake but functioning piston and cylinder to an EV motorcycle that gives it both an intake and exhaust noise, as well as vibration, as there's actual reciprocating mass.
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