[The Epoch Times, April 18, 2022](Reported by The Epoch Times reporter Chen Juncun) As we all know, listen toclassical musicGood for both body and mind.And a recent study also found that when you driveelectric carwhen, listenclassical musiccan help youPower saving. Want to try it out?
According to the website “Classic FM”, to study how listening to music affects people’s driving efficiency, South KoreaKia MotorsThe company (Kia) with its newelectric carEV6 for testing.
The company asks newcomers who have never driven an electric car to drive the new car over an 18-mile (29-kilometer) distance that includes residential roads, country roads and expressways with two-way lanes.
They listen to some filtered music while driving, such as: classical music, pop music, lyrical music, etc.When every piece of music is playing, the car’spower consumptionwill be recorded.
The test results showed that when the test subjects were listening to classical music, they could keep the car running at maximum speed.Power savingway of driving.
The classical music chosen for this music list is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Second Movement.On average, this piece accounted for 32.5% of the total length of the music, but in the overallpower consumptionOnly 7.7% of the total.
In other words, when the subjects drove the distance, they spent about a third (32.5%) listening to Symphony No. 9, Second Movement. And when they were listening to the music, the electric car consumed only 7.7 percent of all the electricity consumed for the entire trip.
In contrast, Canadian singer The Weeknd’s fast-paced pop song “Blinding Lights” only accounted for 10.4% of the total length of the music, but accounted for 23.6% of the overall power consumption.
“Music does have a significant impact on how far an electric car can actually travel,” said Duncan Williams, a professor at the University of Salford who oversaw the study.
In short, if you want to drive farther in a power-efficient way, you can listen to classical music; if you don’t care about power consumption and want to drive faster, you can listen to fast-paced pop music.
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