ELECTRIC ROAD VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH A REPRODUCTION DEVICE FOR THE REALIZATION OF A SOUND ASSOCIABLE WITH A GEAR SHIFT AND RELATED METHOD

Road vehicle comprising: four wheels, of which at least two drive wheels; a passenger compartment configured to accommodate at least one driver; at least one electric motor configured to deliver drive torque to the at least two drive wheels; a gear shift system, which is configured to allow the driver to select one of a plurality of virtual gears and to switch from one virtual gear to another while driving; an acoustic system, which comprises at least one reproduction device configured to generate a sound associable with a switch from one virtual gear to another; a control unit configured to detect a gear shift request from the driver to the gear shift system and control the acoustic system to reproduce the sound.