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Originally Posted by torque2me
Maybe the earlier EV generation had none fitted? However, it is concerning that you and another poster has identified the "quietness" of the warning sound. That of course helps in reducing overall vehicle noise for the immediate environment but if it is so quiet as you say then it becomes next to useless and is just fitted to enable the manufacturer to tick the box set by regulators. 
Kev |
I think you're right, Some of the early EV's didn't have the pedestrian warning sound, I've just had a look & there doesn't appear to be any way of adjusting the volume up,
You can turn it off (Not sure why you would want to if you cant hear it inside the car) but it resets to on every time you switch off the car.
I've had to sound the horn a couple of times when driving up the service road as people didn't hear me coming.
I was wrong about the 12mph! The pedestrian alert sounds from 0 to 19mph when accelerating and from 15 to 0 mph when decelerating.