With virtually no engine noise, electric vehicles are smooth and nearly silent. But is that a good thing? Some parents, and their children, would disagree. According to research from Nissan, more than half of all the UK-based parents surveyed resort to hopping in their car with their restless children to help them get to sleep: A practice Nissan charmingly refers to as a “dream drive.” And Nissan is close to replicating this in otherwise-quiet electric vehicles. [Read: A tricked-out Nissan Leaf just completed Britain’s longest fully autonomous drive] “Combustion engines transmit a sound frequency, a combination of white, pink and…
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