EVs = passenger motion sickness

[Dee]

Nope, none.
Just big smiles.

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[kl98cwg]

Thankfully I’ve never suffered from car sickness, but I can think of several drivers (of ICE cars) who seem to keep pressing and releasing the accelerator even when they’re maintaining a constant speed and it’s horrible. The instant response of an EV exaggerates any lack of smoothness from the driver, but switching off recuperation will also help.

 

[GreenHornet]

None. Not in my two taycans, audi e-tron or bmw ix.

 

[mystermykee]

The advice I got on advanced driver training was ”ease and squeeze” - stomping on the accelerator is very tempting but also very uncomfortable for the passenger. Ease off, gently squeeze on.

This. I'd also add same for the brake pedal. Driver never feels their inputs as much as their passengers do.

With my previous stick shift cars, I would always pay attention to see how much head jolting my passengers had during gear changes.

 

[Jasper4S]

I have this when the driver has regen enabled.

 

[Tsingtao]

It has a lot to do with the driver.

It’s also worse in cars with one pedal drive (like Tesla).

Cruise control helps, active sound helps. But mostly it’s the driver not constantly changing speeds while cruising.

I concur 100% that it has to do with the driver. I've never had issues with either passengers or me getting carsick because (at least I like to think) I am so smoooth piloting my Taycan. But when driving a Taycan around the track at PEC Atlanta, I made myself very, very nauseated -- so much so that I had to stop the session and have a little water. The difference, I think, was that on the track I was either accelerating very hard, braking very hard, or hitting a corner very hard (after full throttle acceleration and stomping on the brake before hitting the corner). I suspect that over time I could get used to the roller coaster effect (like the kids who accompany you on the PEC track) but there is no way an uninitiated passenger could quickly adapt. Interesting tidbit from PEC: my instructor stated that about 50% of the people driving Taycans at PEC experience some level of motion sickness, whereas the number is much, much lower for 911 drivers.

 

[uniqueMR]

Taycan feel/drive much better, close to normal vehicles. Didn't like drive the drive of Tesla, Rivian plus cheaply made.

 

[WuffvonTrips]

I think that the lack of audio cue for acceleration is a prime factor, as is the instantaneous torque delivery until you get used to it. I think that passengers can help themselves by looking well ahead to anticipate where the car is heading, as if they were driving. Personally, I initially found launch control runs unpleasant, though never felt problems on a track even with a coach driving reference laps.

 

[GtechRob]

interesting. yes think will have to default to sport plus for when I feel like doing bat shit crazy.

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