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Photo credit: Klaus by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Earlier this year, I wrote about the electrification of construction vehicles, ferries and tarmac vehicles in Norway. I didn’t think similar environmental progress would be made in the United States...
Photo credit: Roberto Nickson by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The AIN Media Group website reported that Archer Aviation has announced planned vertiport sites in Los Angeles. Archer plans to launch an eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) network...
Photo credit: Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This blog post is one of several about noise in Norway, based on my recent travels there. Norway, and I think more broadly Scandinavian countries, are ahead of the United States in environmental...
Photo credit: Rathaphon Nanthapreecha by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Electric vehicle sales are increasing in the United States. In 2023, 1.2 million EVs sold in the U.S. Amazingly, in California, EVs accounted for 25% of all new vehicle sales last...
Photo credit: dcbel by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition A special issue of Noise News International, published on May 12, 2023, features an article that asks, "Will EVs Make Our Cities Quieter?" Authors Erik Bühlmann, Daniel Schweizer and Felix...
Photo by Dr. Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I was doing some yard work when a FedEx truck pulled up to a neighbor’s house. Unlike most FedEx trucks, with too-noisy diesel engines, this one was quiet. I went over to take a look and couldn’t...
Photo credit: Jiarong Deng from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article in the European journal Noise Mapping documents that the type of road surface is the major influence on electric vehicle noise levels at urban speeds. This scientific...
Are electric vehicles as quiet as promised? Jeanine Botta of Silence the Horns is not convinced. Click here to find out why.
How can big cities deal with noise pollution? New technologies coupled with citizen activism can spell the way to quieter, healthier cities.