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It went away for me after about 2 weeks. Still happens to my wife every now and then if she's on her phone while I'm driving.
I noticed I was getting slightly nauseous when I first got the car. It was especially noticeable when accelerating quickly.
I think it’s actually from lifting after accelerating, when the regen engages. A typical ICE would coast so the feeling is very different and I don’t think I’m used to it.
It takes practice but it does work. I spend a lot of time driving at constant speeds. I just keep the accelerator positioned so that I'm neither accelerating or decelerating. The key is to not use the accelerator as a switch. I've ridden with people who do that but luckily never in a Tesla!This. ^
It's got less to do with the acceleration and more with the constant switch between acceleration and deceleration due to Tesla's regenerative braking implementation. Yes, it can be mitigated somewhat by trying to modulate the accelerator pedal pressure but, in real-life traffic, that's never going to work as well as coasting and having all braking where it belongs, i.e. on the brake pedal.
It takes practice but it does work. I spend a lot of time driving at constant speeds. I just keep the accelerator positioned so that I'm neither accelerating or decelerating. The key is to not use the accelerator as a switch. I've ridden with people who do that but luckily never in a Tesla!
You can actually acclimate yourself to rapid acceleration with practice. I don't think it will be a problem after you've been driving for a while.I haven't received my 3 yet but I'll probably need to get used to this.
My boss gave me a ride in her Fiat 500e EV and the acceleration gave me a headache too.
I imagine if I'm the one driving I can prepare for the acceleration when I put my foot down though. We'll see. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A Model 3 can coast. You just need to keep the accelerator in the middle. I don't really understand the complaint about the transition between regen and friction. In an ICE vehicle you still need to transition between coasting and braking. I find that in traffic I'm never using the friction brakes anyway and in those conditions there is no switching pedals and therefore no discontinuities.You are correct. In the absence of traffic, an electric car with no gears makes it a lot easier to maintain a given speed since there's a more direct correlation between pedal pressure and torque (and therefore terminal speed). I qualified my statement above with "in real-life traffic", because that's where the desired amount of deceleration diverges from what the car gives you. One cannot feather the "throttle" to reduce speed and then transition to friction braking without a certain amount of jerking, no matter how much practice one has. Over a long-enough drive, that can get nauseating or at least annoying.
The above is quite a shame because an electric car would have the potential to coast wonderfully, given the (I'm guessing) lower powertrain friction loss, at least with an induction motor. It sounds like the upcoming e-Tron (and likely the rest of the VAG electrics) will have that type of regen implementation. If their coasting and regen/friction blending ends up being half as good as they say it will be, it will make for an amazingly smooth drive. Looking forward to that!
The Model 3 can't come to a complete stop without a tiny bit of friction braking except with a really long roll out. But you realistically can probably do about 95% of a stop without them.I find that in traffic I'm never using the friction brakes anyway and in those conditions there is no switching pedals and therefore no discontinuities.
It's probably the small muscles in your neck not used to the back and forth motion.
I bet my wife has a problem with this, the girlfriend on the other hand...
Yes but it tapers off very slowly so it is possible to smoothly transition to friction with almost no discontinuity.The Model 3 can't come to a complete stop without a tiny bit of friction braking except with a really long roll out. But you realistically can probably do about 95% of a stop without them.
I just got my model 3 last week, and I am getting a prolonged headache after driving the car for an hour or so, I know my wife also got the headache for a few days after riding on the passenger seat. I lowered the tire pressure to 39 psi, but still feels very bumpy. I am hoping it will get better cause I am starting to regret my purchase if this continues.
I see you've never driven a manual.I think it’s actually from lifting after accelerating, when the regen engages. A typical ICE would coast so the feeling is very different and I don’t think I’m used to it. It’s getting better now.
Actually all of my previous cars were manuals. Engine braking in 4th, 5th or 6th gears are not like Tesla’s normal regen setting.I see you've never driven a manual.