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SoundRacer EVEESS™

SoundRacer AB is a Swedish manufacturer of electronic engine sound devices established 2008 to develop sound technology for improved driving experience in internal combustion engine (ICE) cars. In 2012 the company released their first version of EVEESS™, Electric Vehicle Electronic Engine Sound System, based on the technology, experience and customer response from the first 100 000 units delivered.

SoundRacer EVEESS™ use only real engine sound recordings as the base for the sounds. The sound modules are developed to give a realistic ICE sound impression indicating if the vehicle is idling, accelerating, decelerating or cruising. The different sound characters and sound volume is determined from information about the actual speed of the vehicle and rate of speed change.

The company targets two different applications with the products: 1. Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System, AVAS, to make electric vehicles meet coming legislations, and 2. Increased driving experience to make electric vehicles more popular among customer groups that appreciate real engine sounds. After studying several reports regarding AVAS, the management is convinced that real engine sounds will be less disturbing and have better alerting effect than other sounds.

Many manufacturers of electric vehicles like cars, motorcycles and scooters are now in the process of evaluating sound systems for their products. To assist them in the prototyping process the SoundRacer sound modules now in production have functions that will give manufacturers the tools to conveniently test different sounds and settings. Several files with sounds and parameter settings can be created on a computer and stored on a MicroSD card. Changing sounds and settings during test drives is then performed with a touch of a button.

SoundRacer AB delivers complete systems with CAN bus or sensor speed/rpm input and a selection of weather protected speakers.