Electric cars too loud?

Court prohibits parking spaces with charging stations

Created: 09/11/2022, 04:47

By: Marcus Efler

Electric cars don't make any noise when driving, but even more so when parking: This verdict by a Berlin court is probably to be understood in a similar way.

Berlin – Electric cars are quiet – even too quiet, according to the legislator, and therefore a danger for pedestrians.

At low speeds, the Stromer must therefore make an artificially generated sound (or they make as much noise as this Tesla).

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However, according to a Berlin district office, electric cars can also be too loud – interestingly, precisely when they are not driving.

Instead, park at a charging station.

A property owner in Prenzlauer Berg was therefore forbidden from building five parking spaces with two charging stations in a former car workshop in the backyard of a residential complex.

noisy?

Electric car in a residential area.

(Iconic image) © Sabine Brose/Sorge/Imago

Electric cars too loud?

Court prohibits parking spaces with charging stations

Because if the doors are slammed, the vehicles parked and loaded there could exceed the limit values ​​for noise emissions - with Tesla and Co. just like with any other car.

So the property owner sued for a building permit: Because a car repair shop had previously operated on the site, the area was already polluted, she argued, and noise pollution from doors and trunk lids is negligible in modern cars.

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Electric cars too loud?

Consideration "not feasible"

But the administrative court in Berlin saw things differently and finally agreed with the office.

It referred to a specially obtained report, according to which the parking and loading could be too loud at night.

A condition with the content to avoid loud slamming of doors at night out of consideration for the residents is “not realistically feasible”, in English: Nobody sticks to it anyway.

It may be.

In any case, the motto for Berlin is still: sleep well.