Hybrid Car and Implantable Cardiac Devices Study - Mayo Clinic

Luis R. Scott, M.D., cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, discusses a study designed to address the interaction between implanted cardiac devices and electric cars. The study findings show that patients with these devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators can safely drive or be a passenger in an electric car without risk of electromagnetic interference (EMI).
Read the entire news release here:
www.mayoclinic.org/news2013-sc...

[@MayoClinic]

Sherry - thank you for your comments on the "electric car" video. We agree that additional studies need to be done in the future on this. Thanks very much for bringing to our attention the broken link. That has now been fixed.

[@billcichoke2534]

It's important, not just for pacemaker users, but those of us with sternal wires and replacement heart valves. All of those contain metals that can display induction charging and heating effects.
The fact they've put people into cars without KNOWING they'll be safe, just assuming it can't be that serious or whatever, doesn't fill me with confidence...

[@sboschert]

Sorry, but a Prius is not an electric car, it's a gasoline-dependent hybrid. This is a good study, but Mayo Clinic -- you need to change the title from "Electric Car" to "Hybrid Car." Plus, you say "Read the entire news release here" but there is no link to the news release or the study itself. Have you got anything more than the ACC abstract? Electric cars have lots more batteries. Will you test them? Please let me know. (I'm a medical news reporter and author of "Plug-in Hybrids" book.)

[@guythall]

A tesla model S should be tested as it is the EV with the greatest torque and power draw.