The unexpected benefits of driving an EV

Not posted much recently (it's still as dry as anything in these parts so most of the day is spent just trying to keep everything ticking over), but aside from that, there's been no great insights or observations to make.

Until I suddenly realised over the past weekend there's a bonus to driving an EV that I've not seen commented on - and that's the effect that the quiet / lack of motor noise has on a chronically carsick dog.

We loaded all 4 of the dogs up on Sunday last week to take them to the river in Avoca and the lake in Maryborough for a bit of a stroll about. Cassie (the new younger Aussie) likes more exercise than the twice nightly meander around the paddocks gives her, and besides, they all love to meet new people and see new things. Even the old girls who are only up to a gentle stroll about, love the fusses they get from strangers, and the chance to sniff something new.

These trips used to be fraught with complications because Mambo, the nine-year-old male Aussie, has suffered from chronic car sickness from the day we collected him. The first night we had him involved a mad scramble to the vets because he'd thrown up all the way home from Ballarat and ended up dehydrated and very uncomfortable. The rest of the night was spent with me keeping hot water bottles warm for him to lie on (I read something about colicky babies and thought why not - it worked), and then there were the pain killers we had to administer and the sheer panic that we'd harmed our brand new puppy. 

But anyway, he survived that, but has never been able to do more than about 15 ks in a car since then without projectile vomiting and panicking big time. Tried car booster seats to change his view, tried him in the back and front seats, tried all sorts of things - nothing worked.

Until we got the EV - in which he's never shown the slightest sign of throwing up, is happy to be in the car, doesn't whinge when he's put in it (until we get to a 60k zone when they all start whinging to get out and go for a walk), and generally is really easy now to take for a drive. We've been doing quite a lot of miles since the EV arrived with all the dogs and it is such a relief.

The theory is there's no low level engine frequency noise / thingie / something technical himself mutters about. Whatever it is - worth the changeover to an EV at double the price!