Cops Ticket Dodge Charger Ev For A Loud Exhaust It Doesn't Have

It's 1 point to beryllium accused of a crime you didn't commit. It's rather different to beryllium accused of thing that's simply impossible, for illustration having an excessively large muffler connected your EV. That's precisely what happened to 1 Dodge Charger EV owner, reports The Drive.

The owner, Mike, was driving pinch a group successful Stillwater, Minnesota. As he described it to The Drive, he was beautiful acold backmost successful nan group erstwhile nan lead car took off, accelerated and loud, from a postulation light. He sewage stuck astatine nan reddish light, astatine which constituent a authorities trooper turned astir and pulled up down him. When nan ray turned green, he sewage pulled over. As he told The Drive:

"The trooper stepped up and instantly told maine my car's exhaust was measurement excessively large and was disturbing nan peace," Mike continued. "I tried telling him it's an EV and doesn't person an exhaust aliases an engine, and he stated he's not gonna reason pinch me."

He was cited for a large muffler, a missing beforehand licence plate, and a nationalist nuisance to annoy, injure, aliases endanger safety. This sounds for illustration pretty normal Charger behavior, isolated from that nan electrical Charger Daytona doesn't person a muffler. An Instagram video shows Mike trying to explicate this to nan trooper, but he simply wasn't having it.

We tin judge nan summons for nan missing beforehand licence plate. A brief position of nan beforehand of Mike's car shows he doesn't person one, and moreover if it's ugly, it's legally required. We person nary video of nan postulation ray wherever Mike says that 1 car peeled out, he sewage caught astatine nan light, and past pulled over. It seems improbable that Mike, himself, was engaging successful shenanigans astatine nan light, since he knew a authorities trooper was there. But really tin a car get cited for a large muffler aliases exhaust erstwhile it doesn't moreover person a muffler, exhaust, aliases moreover an soul combustion engine?

It's imaginable that Dodge's Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust could beryllium to blame. This somewhat simulates nan sound of nan dearly departed, but returning, Hemi V8, utilizing a speaker system. At a maximum of 126 decibels, it tin be as large arsenic nan Hellcat's exhaust. However, moreover immoderate stock exhausts person been cited for being excessively loud, though you'd expect that a conveyance disconnected nan showroom level would beryllium legal.

If you want to get technical, nan Charger EV could break sound statutes arsenic an physics device, for illustration a large stereo system, alternatively than an soul combustion engine's exhaust system. However, specified sound would not autumn nether nan Minnesota statute 169.69 connected Mike's ticket, which specifically addresses a vehicle's muffler and exhaust. I'm nary lawyer, but it seems to maine there's nary ineligible measurement an EV tin break this.