Yeah, that was a rare case where the car wasn't that old, but one cell just went bad. You wouldn't want to do the same thing if all the cells were old.

Cool!

I agree, but apparently some people actually like the smell of burnt fossil fuels.

Okay maybe they'll know, but when they think of cars it won't be what they immediately think of.

That's a good point, it's the same with a lot of digital icons like the phone icon or camera icon.

I think the effect that you pointed out will happen for electric cars, people will still use terms like "start the car" "gas pedal" "gear shifter", but I think that fake car engine sounds will die out because most people just don't care.

Actually that is already a thing on a few EVs, Tesla lets you change your sound to anything. All new EVs have speakers to alert pedestrians, usually like a hum or white noise.

But I personally don't expect fake engine sounds to stay popular, I think people will just get used to different sounds. In fact most non-car enthusiasts don't care about sound at all and would turn it off.

That's like every vaccine

I mean that's why people sign up for these studies/trials.