Electric Vehicles: The Electromagnetic Environmental Impact
How EV Adoption Could Create Uninhabitable Areas Due to Increased Electromagnetic Exposure
The push for widespread adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is often heralded as a forward-thinking solution to various challenges. However, from an electromagnetic perspective, this agenda may create unforeseen disasters of epic proportions.
The involuntary exposure to synthetic electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from EV charging and use affects everyone in proximity, even those who are aware of the risks and take precautions.
In my work, I have seen how even a single neighbor with an EV charging station can have devastating effects on a client whose home shares the same transformer. Imagine if every home had this same problem. Based on my experiences as an Independent EMF Consultant, this opinion piece explores the numerous and significant electromagnetic challenges posed by the EV agenda, highlighting the potential impacts on residential environments and broader communities.
Increased AC Magnetic Fields
Adding charging stations for Electric Vehicles (EVs) in residential homes significantly increases alternating current (AC) magnetic fields (MF) within these environments. These charging stations draw substantial amounts of power to recharge EV batteries, generating strong AC magnetic fields that can permeate throughout the home and the surrounding area. Unlike other household appliances, EV chargers operate for extended periods, often overnight, leading to prolonged exposure. This continuous and intensified power consumption within residential areas, where people live and sleep, results in a notable rise in AC magnetic field levels inside homes.
Furthermore, the widespread integration of EV charging stations impacts the broader environment due to the fatal flaw in North America’s power distribution system, which returns the majority of current through the earth. This flaw means the entire environment between each house and the electric power substation is affected. As multiple households in a neighborhood install EV chargers, the cumulative effect exacerbates the issue, creating a pervasive environment of elevated AC magnetic field exposure across a broader area. This widespread increase in magnetic fields extends beyond individual residences, affecting the surrounding community.
This widespread increase in AC magnetic fields will affect not just the interiors of homes but also backyards, playgrounds, vacant fields, and all land within electric power “service areas.” The pervasive nature of these fields means that all spaces within these areas, where people spend time and children play, will experience heightened magnetic field exposure due to the cumulative effect of EV charging stations. More current flowing over existing above-ground electrical distribution lines will increase MF intensity near these lines.
Impossible to Remediate
An experienced EMF consultant can effectively remediate many synthetic EMF exposures but not environmental AC magnetic fields from current flow through the ground. Not even terrain features, the last hope for protection from terrestrial RF exposures, will protect from environmental AC magnetic fields caused by increased current flow through the earth.
Increased Dirty Electricity
As an Independent EMF Consultant, I’ve seen firsthand how an uninformed neighbor’s poor decisions in the electromagnetic realm affect others nearby. This is never more true than with the impacts on dirty electricity (DE). Integrating EV charging stations into residential electrical systems dramatically increases the production of DE, which refers to the high-frequency voltage transients and harmonics superimposed onto the standard 60 Hz electrical supply. Due to their high power consumption and the conversion process from AC to DC power, EV chargers can introduce significant electrical noise into the home’s wiring system, affecting the quality of power and propagating throughout the electrical grid.
DE Exposures Can be Reduced, But Not Eliminated
Dirty electricity impacts more than just the home with the EV charger. It can spread through shared power lines and affect neighboring homes. The most significant effects will be on homes serviced by transformers serving EV owners. While such impacts may be reduced through intensive and competent remediation efforts, they can never be entirely eliminated.
No Meaningful Oversight
To my knowledge, just like RF radiation exposure, there is no meaningful oversight of the increasing environmental exposure to magnetic fields (MF) or dirty electricity (DE). This lack of oversight means that the growing impact of these electromagnetic phenomena remains unaddressed. We can hope for a future in which such oversight exists and is based on biological effects, but today, we just don’t have it.
Some areas and homes will be disproportionately affected (higher DE and MF), depending on factors such as proximity to EV charging stations, proximity to an electrical substation, soil resistance, population density, above-ground power distribution lines, and the specific characteristics of the local power distribution system.
Synthetic High-Frequency EMF Emissions from EVs in Use
Electric Vehicles (EVs), especially those equipped with autonomous driving features, emit various high-frequency synthetic electromagnetic fields (EMFs) that contribute to increased novel exposures for individuals in proximity. This includes pedestrians, motorists, bicyclists, sidewalk diners, and homes near roadways. These emissions originate from a suite of components deployed by self-driving cars.
Self-driving cars deploy a combination of LiDAR, radar, and ultrasonic sensors, all of which emit different types of synthetic EMFs. Radar systems in these vehicles emit millimeter wave RF radiation. This RF radiation exposes the driver of the EV and all life in proximity to the vehicle. LiDAR systems, on the other hand, emit synthetic invisible light pulses. Ultrasonic sensors emit sub-audible sounds. None of these systems have been proven to be harmless.
Together, these technologies create a complex web of synthetic EMF emissions that can affect anyone nearby. The continuous operation of these systems, especially in densely populated urban areas, raises concerns about the cumulative exposure to synthetic EMFs for life in these environments.
Earthing or Grounding
If productive earthing is still feasible today, it may not be tomorrow as the EV agenda progresses. This is due to the rise in current flow through the earth and the profound effects of a massive increase in dirty electricity (DE) harmonics from EV chargers.
Solutions
I like to focus on solutions—how to survive the electromagnetic poisoning occurring around us. Unfortunately, the solutions for the EV agenda are fewer and will require much greater personal and familial sacrifice.
To avoid increased environmental MF exposure, you can relocate to an area with a much lower population density. To reduce exposure to DE, you can get help from a competent EMF consultant, but you cannot eliminate DE exposure altogether when living in areas of EV deployment. Living electrically closer to power generation facilities may provide cleaner power in a sparsely populated area. I’m referring to land far enough from the facility to avoid the effects of power generation and high-tension lines but served by the first electrical substation outbound from the generation source.
The broad spectrum of novel high-frequency synthetic EMFs presents many technical challenges associated with direct exposure to an operating EV. Part of the solution is to avoid purchasing an EV. Additionally, living farther from roadways, avoiding sidewalk dining, reducing time spent on the road, avoiding high-density traffic conditions, and limiting walking, bicycling, and other activities near roadways will also help mitigate exposure.
Conclusion
The widespread adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) may create a disaster of epic proportions. The involuntary exposure to synthetic EMFs from EV charging and use affects everyone, leading to increased AC magnetic fields and dirty electricity (DE) levels in residential and broader environments. The lack of meaningful oversight on these exposures exacerbates the problem, with some areas and homes being disproportionately affected. Additionally, the higher frequency synthetic EMF emissions from autonomous driving components contribute to the cumulative exposure risks. While DE impacts can be partially remediated through expert help, environmental MF impacts have no solution. The potential effects on earthing practices also raise concerns about the broader implications for those affected.
We can’t afford the adoption of this agenda, and more so for our children and grandchildren.
Thank you, this is very important. and like other scientists before you, 100s of years ago, you warn of the devastating effects of various novel technologies.
I cannot help but think that the ultimate protection is wisdom, compassion, and vitality. If we do not push for deep social change, first in the individual, then the group, we cannot hope to change this incessant broadening of the ways to destroy life.
Even worse is being inside one of these slow kill machines…
Nothing is good about this technology.
Nothing, a complete inversion of reality.