EVKX Music – Electric Cars Have a Soundtrack
We spend a lot of time at EVKX collecting data about electric vehicles. Battery capacities. Charging curves. Range. Consumption. Voltage. Current. Regeneration. Charging losses. Performance. And considerably more specifications than any reasonable person probably needs.
Eventually, apparently, this wasn't enough. We started making songs about it.
What began as a few experiments with AI-generated music has turned into an increasingly strange collection of Eurodance, trance, rock, country and cinematic songs about electric cars. Some are educational. Some tell stories. Some make fun of the arguments surrounding EVs. And some exist simply because somebody needed to write a Eurodance song about the difference between kilowatts and kilowatt-hours.
Welcome to the EVKX soundtrack.
EVKX Changed My Life
Genre: Eurodance
The song that started the madness.
Someone discovers EVKX and initially just wants to learn a little more about electric cars. Then come battery capacities, charging curves, voltage, motors, range calculations and specifications he didn't even know existed. Before long, looking up a car has become a full-blown obsession.
A celebration of falling much, much further down the EV rabbit hole than originally intended.
One More Video
Genre: Eurodance / electronic pop
It starts innocently. You just want to check one EV review before going to bed.
Then YouTube recommends another. Bjørn Nyland has a 1,000 km test. Kyle Conner has a charging analysis. Autogefühl has a detailed interior review. Electrifying has another new EV you haven't seen yet.
Surely there's time for just one more. There isn't.
Before long, it's the middle of the night and you're comparing charging curves, consumption figures, rear-seat space and battery temperatures for cars you aren't even planning to buy.
ONE MORE VIDEO! Then another. And another.
A song for everyone who discovered that owning an EV isn't required to develop a completely unreasonable interest in watching other people test them.
Tomorrow you'll go to bed earlier. Probably. But first… just one more video.
Evie – Electric Love
Genre: Eurodance / electronic love song
A man asks an EV chatbot a perfectly innocent technical question. Then something unexpected happens.
She understands him. Not just emotionally. She understands charging curves.
What follows is perhaps the world's first love song about falling for an artificial intelligence because she knows the difference between peak charging power and average charging power.
One Pedal Is Not My Religion
Genre: Arena rock
Regenerative braking is brilliant. Being forced to use aggressive one-pedal driving isn't.
This is a protest anthem for drivers who still enjoy coasting and would rather let blended braking recover energy when they actually press the brake pedal.
The message is simple: LET ME COAST.
Check That Curve
Genre: Eurodance
Manufacturers love advertising peak charging power. "320 kW!"
Great. For how long?
Check That Curve is dedicated to everyone who cares less about the biggest number in the press release and more about what happens throughout the charging session.
Peak power gets the headline. The charging curve tells the story.
Cold Battery Blues
Genre: Blues
You've found a 350 kW charger. Your battery is at a low state of charge. Everything should be perfect.
Then the charger gives you 63 kW.
You forgot to precondition the battery. There are moments in life when only the blues will do.
Eight Hundred Volts of Love
Genre: Italo disco / Eurodance
Four hundred volts was enough. Until you met 800.
A completely unnecessary love song to high-voltage EV architectures, lower current, serious charging power and the technological romance of watching enormous numbers appear on a DC fast charger.
Range Anxiety
Genre: Uplifting trance
4%. 3%. 2%.
The charger is still several kilometers away. The heating has mysteriously been turned off, nobody in the car is allowed to ask questions, and the driver insists that everything is completely under control.
An uplifting trance interpretation of one of electric driving's oldest fears.
I Ain't Buying No Electric Car
Genre: Country
Our protagonist knows everything about electric cars. They don't work in winter. They take forever to charge. They can't tow. And if everyone buys one, the electricity grid will collapse.
How does he know? The internet told him.
Then somebody lets him drive an EV. A few weeks later, there's one sitting outside his house.
It's for his wife, obviously.
Limited by the Charger
Genre: Industrial rock / electronic rock
You bought an ultra-fast-charging Chinese EV. The battery is warm. State of charge is perfect. The car can request nearly 800 amps.
You connect to the charger. Maximum current: 500 amps.
The car is ready. The battery is ready. You are ready.
The infrastructure isn't.
WLTP Said Six Hundred
Genre: Electronic / Eurodance
The brochure said 600 kilometers. Then winter arrived. So did the heater, cold air, large wheels, rain, snow and motorway speeds.
This is the story of discovering that a laboratory test figure isn't a promise that your EV will travel exactly that distance under every possible condition.
Physics has not read the brochure.
Kilowatts Ain't Kilowatt-Hours
Genre: 90s Eurodance
Power is measured in kilowatts. Energy is measured in kilowatt-hours. No, your EV does not have a "100 kW battery."
This distinction apparently required a Eurodance song.
POWER? KILOWATTS!
ENERGY? KILOWATT-HOURS!
Educational content has rarely needed this much bass.
The Regeneration Generation
Genre: Eurodance
Electric motors can become generators when the car slows, recovering some of the vehicle's kinetic energy instead of simply turning it into heat. That's worth celebrating.
But this song also establishes one important principle: regenerative braking and one-pedal driving are not the same thing. You can love regeneration and still love coasting.
Welcome to the Regeneration Generation.
Give Me More Screens
Genre: Eurodance / Hi-NRG
Minimalism has gone too far. One giant tablet in the middle of the dashboard isn't necessarily the pinnacle of automotive user experience.
Give us a driver display. Give us a head-up display. Give the passenger a screen. Give the rear passengers screens. Give climate control somewhere sensible to live.
The protagonist doesn't want distraction. He wants relevant information where it belongs. And, admittedly, a completely unreasonable number of screens.
I'm Still Driving
Genre: Scandinavian Eurodance / trance-pop
Radar? Yes. Blind-spot monitoring? Absolutely. 360-degree cameras? Great. Automatic emergency braking? Please keep it.
Lane keeping grabbing the steering wheel? No.
Driver monitoring repeatedly telling the driver to look at the road while she's checking the mirror? Definitely no.
Freya loves technology and driver assistance. She just wants the car to remember one thing: SHE'S STILL DRIVING.
Pick a Lane
Genre: Scandinavian Eurodance / trance-pop
Battery. Electric motor. Charging port. Petrol engine. Fuel tank. Exhaust system.
Why choose one drivetrain when you can carry two?
Pick a Lane is Freya's characteristically uncompromising opinion of PHEVs and EREVs. The song does acknowledge that plug-in hybrids and range extenders can make practical sense for some drivers and circumstances.
Freya acknowledges this reasonable argument. Then ignores it.
GO FULL ELECTRIC.
Queen of the Left Lane – Four Rings Remix
Genre: Scandinavian Eurodance / trance-pop
Meet Freya. Blonde. Scandinavian. Electric. Opinionated.
She believes the Autobahn left lane is the natural habitat of Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche. Then she checks the mirror.
Volvo? Toyota? Hyundai? Kia?
Electrification has brought enormous performance to brands that weren't traditionally members of her imaginary German left-lane club. Freya's response is entirely rational:
MORE POWER. ELECTRIC QUATTRO. FOUR RINGS AT THE FRONT.
Prefer the version before the remix? The original Queen of the Left Lane is on YouTube too.
Not RS Enough
Genre: 80s synth-rock / power rock
He buys an Audi RS e-tron GT performance. RS badge. Enormous power. Extraordinary acceleration. Surely the RS community will welcome him.
Then he meets the RS3, RS5, RS6, RS7, TT RS and R8 owners. "Where's your engine?"
He may have the performance, but apparently electricity doesn't count.
He leaves disappointed, until he meets someone who couldn't care less about cylinders and thinks going extremely fast without an exhaust pipe sounds considerably more interesting.
Sometimes you don't need acceptance from the crowd. Just the right passenger.
It Depends
Genre: 90s Eurodance
"What's the range?" It depends.
"How fast does it charge?" It depends.
"What's the consumption?" It depends.
"Is 800 volts better?" Well… it depends.
Temperature, speed, weather, wheels, state of charge, battery temperature, voltage, current, charging curve and driving style can all change the answer.
A song dedicated to the EV nerd's remarkable inability to answer a simple question with a simple number.
Where Did the Energy Go?
Genre: 90s Eurodance
The charger says it delivered 80 kWh. The battery gained 73 kWh. There is only one reasonable response:
WHERE DID MY ENERGY GO?!
The answer takes us through charging losses, resistance, heat, cooling, battery heating, power electronics, AC/DC conversion and finally the inevitable discussion about gross versus usable battery capacity.
The energy didn't disappear. But explaining where it went takes considerably longer than subtracting 73 from 80.
State of Charge
Genre: Emotional uplifting vocal trance
A different side of the EVKX soundtrack.
Luna drives alone through the night with a rapidly falling state of charge. A distant fast charger becomes both the literal destination and a metaphor for finding energy when you're almost empty.
The battery warms. The charger gets closer. 5% becomes 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%. And the road opens again.
Sometimes you don't need everything. You just need enough energy for whatever comes next.
Precondition My Heart
Genre: Emotional uplifting vocal trance
Possibly the nerdiest premise ever used for a love song.
A cold EV battery can't necessarily accept maximum charging power. It needs to reach the right temperature first. Apparently hearts work the same way.
Luna turns battery preconditioning, thermal management and charging curves into a surprisingly sincere song about becoming ready to let somebody in.
Peak power is only one moment. What matters is what you can sustain.
One More Percent
Genre: Uplifting vocal trance / progressive dance
3%. 2%. 1%. The charger is getting closer.
Nova's One More Percent turns arriving at a fast charger with almost nothing remaining into something bigger. One percent isn't nothing. One percent means you're still moving.
An EV range story becomes an anthem about finding just enough energy to keep going.
The Road Ahead – The Allinox Anthem
Genre: Cinematic orchestral singer-songwriter
Not every EV song needs a 140 BPM kick drum.
The Road Ahead begins with piano and voice before gradually expanding into strings, brass, percussion and a full cinematic orchestral climax.
Battery cells, electric motors, regeneration, preconditioning, 800-volt charging and charging stops are all there, but they're not really the point. When the technology works, it disappears beneath you. What's left is the journey.
One more city. One more mountain. One more memory. One more road.
One Thousand KM – The Bjørn Nyland Anthem
Genre: Extended uplifting trance
One car. One night. One thousand kilometers.
A tribute to Bjørn Nyland's legendary real-world EV testing and especially the 1,000 km challenge.
Atlas follows the overnight run south from Jessheim through Sweden, with charging stops becoming carefully optimized pit stops. Arrive low. Stay where the charging curve is strong. Take only the energy needed. Clean the windshield. Try to find something to eat.
The problem with modern EVs? Sometimes they charge before you've finished your food.
Near Malmö, 500 kilometers are complete. Turn around. Now there's another race: get back toward Jessheim before Bjørn's daughter Isabell wakes up.
Sweden behind us. Norway ahead. Cross that border. Don't stop yet.
The finished extended version runs 9 minutes and 20 seconds, because apparently a song about driving 1,000 kilometers also refuses to stop.
North of Sixty-Six
Genre: Scandinavian uplifting trance
Another Atlas road-trip anthem, but this time there's no stopwatch. The destination is north. Far north.
Bjørn drives through increasingly empty Norwegian landscapes toward the Arctic Circle as temperatures fall, towns become smaller and charging stations turn into isolated islands of light. Cold battery. Snow. Mountains. Preconditioning. Fast charging.
Then: "You are now crossing the Arctic Circle."
Silence. North of sixty-six. And the trance drop begins.
Video coming soon.
Why are we doing this?
Because electric cars are usually discussed through specifications. Range. Battery capacity. Charging power. Acceleration. Efficiency.
Those numbers matter. We've built an entire website around them.
But EV culture has also developed its own experiences, arguments, frustrations, jokes and peculiar vocabulary. If somebody can write songs about highways, engines and gasoline, we see no reason why charging curves, regeneration and 800-volt architectures should be denied the same treatment.
Some of these songs are deliberately ridiculous. Some are surprisingly serious. And occasionally they're both.
Turn up the volume. Charge the battery. And keep driving. There is always another song down the road.