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My wife has an EV and I've driven and ridden in it just fine. But I once took a Lyft in one and the driver was driving it like a gas vehicle (lifting fully off the throttle and applying brakes), and I was pretty queasy by the end. You're supposed to drive them like golf carts, with only one pedal unless you need to stop very quickly. You brake normally by feathering the throttle.
EVs usually have two modes, one that lets you mostly drive with one pedal, and one that drives like a gas car. Sounds like your driver was using the wrong mode.
Personally I like the gas-car mode because I don't want to misjudge the effectiveness of the regen braking and hit something because of it, since the brake pedal becomes something of a special case rather than just the ordinary way to stop.