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The few times I've ridden in a Tesla I've gotten car sickness and thrown up.
I accept it as God's punishment
Do Chinese EVs make you hurl your lunch every time you sit in the passenger seat?
This is a common response to EVs in general because the power is instant, so it feels like you're being jerked forward and back. Not sure if that was the problem for you.
Yeah, I was looking into it, and like @FloridaBoi@hexbear.net said it is mostly the driver driving an EV as if it were a regular gas car. Which is a mistake I would make too if I were driving one. They have regenerative breaking and that instant response that you mentioned. That in addition to cues we are used to in automobiles (sounds, vibrations, etc) being absent in most EVs causes motion sickness.
At least that's what I tiktok told me..
I've never had a pleasant experience in one, I've always gotten sick.
My wife has an EV and I've driven and ridden in it just fine. But I once took a Lyft in one and the driver was driving it like a gas vehicle (lifting fully off the throttle and applying brakes), and I was pretty queasy by the end.
EVs usually have two modes, one that lets you mostly drive with one pedal, and one that drives like a gas car. Sounds like your driver was using the wrong mode.
Personally I like the gas-car mode because I don't want to misjudge the effectiveness of the regen braking and hit something because of it, since the brake pedal becomes something of a special case rather than just the ordinary way to stop.
That might be a driver issue more than anything