Do electric cars taste more nausea? Which might explain the malaise

Hto people who feel sicker when driving electric cars than in conventional cars? BBC News has received reports of drivers and passengers in this situation. Can these cars really cause more nausea? Studies have tried to explain, but the conclusions are still superficial.

Irene Di Giulio, professor of anatomy at King’s College London, conducted a study on kinetosis, which is the motion sickness, something that happens when we drive, for example. Here quoted by G1, explained that some investigations in the area point out that some people get sicker to ride electric cars than in non-electric cars.

More sick in electric cars?

Doctor Nicholas Hac, a neurologist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, United States, specializes in dizziness and vertigo, and has also seen several patients talking about this same subject.

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“ People simply realize that they are much more prone to get seasick in electric vehicles. I’ve heard of it many times,” the doctor adds. It says that about two patients a month specifically mention the feeling of sickness in electric vehicles.

Although some people say so, it is not clear that this actually happens and the studies that exist are actually superficial and without proof to confirm it safely.

“There are some anecdotal information, but not many serious and comprehensive studies have been conducted on the subject“, revealed specialist Bill Yates, who also studied the subject at Pittsburgh University.

How to avoid motion sickness?

“The kinetosis, the name given to this feeling of malaise, is usually more felt in boats, both due to the ripple and the greater adaptation of the human body to live on land and not on water. However, it ends up being more common in cars or buses, given the largest number of people who use them”, reads on the CUF health network website.

“Motion sickness – which can both be a slight discomfort and cause severe headaches, cold sweats and vomiting – is caused by the arrival of different information to the brain, which conflict” they continue.

Moving sickness tends to be more common in children, but it may even turn out to be something chronic and even caused by medication. “Depending on the means of transport where you are, there are tips to choose the best place to avoid nausea,” continues CUF.

So, by car, the better is the passenger's seat in front, by train is next to a window, facing forward, on a boat in the middle of the front, as close to the water line as possible, and on the plane in the wing area, mainly on the front side.