What might be making them sick is one pedal driving. It’s off by default. This option allows the driver to immediately apply regenerative breaking when letting off the accelerator pedal.
When this option is turned off, an EV coasts just like any other car.
That’s like saying, breaking makes you sick in a car. That doesn’t make any sense.
It’s just travel sickness so I don’t know why it doesn’t make sense. Changes in speed or direction can make you feel sick
I get it as a passenger in petrol cars. I start to feel sick if the driver cuts off on the power and then goes back to accelerating too suddenly.
That sounds like it would be worse in an EV with this feature turned on.
The braking with one pedal driving is much more immediate. The car doesn’t really coast. Instead, you slowly let off the accelerator and the car drags to a stop. It takes a while to get good at, kind of the same way you have to get good at letting off a clutch in a stick shift. If you let off the accelerator abruptly, you will feel the car braking immediately. You have to let off slowly. Trying to drive the traditional way while this feature is turned on creates the “seasick” lunge.
Sorry if I’m not good at describing it. If you get a chance to test drive an EV that includes this option, try it. I mostly keep this feature turned off on my EV because I don’t really see any improvement in range with having it on.
There’s a video demonstrating it here:
I love one pedal, but switch off when I have passengers for this reason. Very noticeable for them.
I’m in a lot of traffic jams, and one pedal is fantastic to have that regen braking when you start and stop 50 times in a couple miles of pileup.
Also if you are an aggressive driver it is really nice.
Shitty drivers blaming the equipment as usual instead of how terrible their right foot is.
Pedal-pumpers and wheel-wagglers will make their passengers motion sick no matter what car they’re driving. You should always be aiming to drive as smoothly as possible.
You just have to retrain your right foot in an EV with one pedal driving.