Electric vehicles and car sickness.

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Sorry, not a very pleasant topic!!

DH wants to buy an electric vehicle as fuel costs are going through the roof. I will always be a passenger as I don't drive and never will. So we went to test drive a Kia Nero today. Nice spacious car, does all we need it to do and in budget as well.

But the motion sickness was awful, especially with braking and accelerating. We got out the car at the dealership and I was promptly sick. While I have huge problems with coaches and travelling backwards on trains, I have never been this bad in a car. I've known DH for the best part of 20 years and several cars so it's not his driving either.

So are electric vehicles more prone to making people feel sick, or was it just me on an off day? I really hope its the latter because if its the former I'm stuffed, especially with the government outlawing petrol/diesel cars. I really can't spend the next 20 years necking kwells every time I get in a vehicle ffs.

I get terrible motion sickness - I feel a bit sick just watching my kids on roundabouts. Haven't noticed this at all in our electric car.

One time though my FIL drove me in his Nissan Leaf, and bloomin hell I felt so sick - but he was driving really weirdly, all stopping and starting abruptly. We had to beg him to be careful as we were on our way to my father's funeral, and I didn't want to be sick there. But the car was new to him, and he's used to it now, and drives normally.

Yep. I’m fine when I drive ours

and I’m fine if DH turns the bloody regenerative braking off. It extends the range, so he sneaks It back on thinking I won’t notice..

I notice. 🤢

I get worse motion sickness as I’ve got older, but electric cars are by far the worst! I’m actually terrified of the future situation of electric cars only because I dread how I feel in them.

I test drove an electric car, felt awful
And sick.. it felt like I was drunk on a taxi drive home kind of sick. I 100% felt awful and I've never in my life felt sick in a car.. very odd