"It was a year in to driving his daughter to school in his new electric vehicle that Phil Bellamy discovered she dreaded the 10-minute daily ride it made her feel sick in a way no other car did. As the driver, Bellamy had no problems with the car but his teenage daughters struggled with sickness every time they entered the vehicle."
"The causes of sickness could include the relatively quick acceleration of EVs compared to fuel vehicles, their regenerative braking systems and a lack of sensory triggers such as engine noise and vibrations when travelling in a car. Research carried out in China, a big producer of electric cars, found that EVs were associated with more severe motion sickness symptoms than fuel vehicles."
Some passengers who did not usually have motion sickness in conventional cars experience nausea and vomiting when riding in electric vehicles. One family stopped regular shared trips after teenage daughters repeatedly became ill during short school runs and began taking travel-sickness tablets before travel. EV characteristics linked to symptoms include quicker acceleration, regenerative braking and reduced engine noise and vibrations that normally provide sensory cues. A study in China found more severe motion-sickness symptoms in EVs than fuel vehicles. Some affected passengers avoid EV taxis and urge manufacturers to consider passenger susceptibility in vehicle design.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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