Electric Cars and EMF, Just how bad are they for our health?
Most of us spend hours daily in our autos, and they’re increasingly built with electronics and connected to the internet. All sorts of exposure to electro-magnetic radiation. Your pet dog could be your immediate sensor to the dangers of this. Our family had a small collie that ran and hid whenever directed to get into the family’s Tesla. Once he jumped out the window when the car was moving (slow speed, uninjured-visibly). Sadly, he experienced seizures regularly and died at a young age.
Dogs sense environmental dangers–EMRadiation, mold, etc. They let us know. Children are unable to recognize and tell us what is not normal or comfortable for them. Something I think about everytime I or a family member gets into an EV.
To learn more visit: www.CarsRadiation.org
Wake-Up Call for EV Industry
“Astonishingly High” Magnetic Fields Compliance Protocol Ignores Peak Pulses
Drivers and passengers of electric vehicles are routinely bathed in surprisingly strong electromagnetic pulses, according to the most comprehensive measurement survey ever carried out. These transients, as they are called, are fast bursts of energy which have been implicated in numerous health controversies over the last 40 years, always without resolution.
The new survey, which included close to a million individual measurements in 13 different electric and hybrid car models, showed that peak fields often exceeded the current European reference limits.1 In special cases, for instance when starting the engine, the fields could be far higher —up to 12 times those limits (measured in a hybrid).
Gernot Schmid, the study team leader at the Seibersdorf Labs in Austria, described the peak fields as “astonishingly high.” Manufacturers could reduce them, he said, if magnetic fields were “taken into account at an early stage of vehicle design.”2
“One might think,” he opined, “that some manufacturers do not consider the issue of magnetic field emissions at all or not sufficiently early on in the vehicle design phase.”
Schmid’s call to mitigate magnetic fields in EVs was echoed by Dirk Geschwentner, his contract manager at the German Federal Office of Radiation Protection (known as BfS). Low exposure levels are “technically possible,” he said in an interview with Auto Motor und Sport, a specialty magazine, adding, “With intelligent vehicle design, manufacturers have the power to reduce local peak values and keep average values low.”
The BfS sponsored the Seibersdorf EV survey under a two-year contract, valued at €449,000 (~US$525,000). The project, which began in March 2021, issued a 460-page report in April. The report is in German, with a two-page abstract in English. BfS’ press release is available in German and in English.
A second volume on magnetic fields generated during EV charging is expected within approximately six months, Anja Lutz, a BfS press officer in Berlin, told Microwave News. Exposures in the vehicles were, in general, lower while charging than driving, according to Geschwentner.
To learn more, visit: www.microwavenews.com/news-center/wakeup-call-ev-industry
