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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.