[magicalhippo]

Road noise isn't much better (perhaps even slightly worse, they're heavy). B

But in the local roads with 40 km/h (30 mph) or less, then yeah it's quite noticeable when an ICE comes along. The EVs you hardly hear.

However, the 80 km/h (50 mph) roads make a lot of noise, so you'll hear them far away.

So overall I'd say not really.

[Ferret7446]

IIRC a lot of noise comes from tire vibration/friction/resonance and wind. (Similarly, tire and brake dust account for a lot of pollution too.)

[magicalhippo]

Yeah was tired so wrote "road noise" in my first sentence, but I really meant tire noise.