current flowing through a wire will produce EMF
If that wire isn’t coiled, it would take one hell of a lot of current to generate a significant EMF. At that point, I would say you’d be in more danger of battery explosion.
That already happens in conventional vehicles, hairdryers, fluorescent light bulbs, escalators, marital aids, and the list goes on.
For some folks, EMF is to us as lead plates (pewter) was to the Romans.
Correction, alternating current flowing through a wire will produce EMF. Direct current, the type produced by batteries, does not produce EMF except for the first brief surge when you initially turn on a switch. Batteries in the Hybrids will not produce harmful EMF, the motor might however.
It might. A steady current will not radiate, but the varying movement of the entire vehicle, wires and all, could produce this. Not counting the effect of the rotation of the planet, which tends to be smooth.
We are constantly surrounded by a multitude of low-level EM fields.
Your house wiring produces EM fields, the power lines going from pole to pole, between backyards in every neighborhood in the country, produce EM fields.
The alternator throws off a big EM field. The more it is ‘charging’, the stronger the field.
Every motor in the car throws off an EM field.
The PC at your side (or where ever) produces an EM field, and so does your phone.
The speakers in your car produce EM fields, as well as the ones in your house.
And if you have a CRT TV , it produces a very strong EM field.
Because the current crop of hybrids are ugly, tiny, slow little cars that are beneath the ‘standards’ these people have.
Now, they have an excuse for forcing the Manufacturer to buy the vehicle back, so they can go out and buy a Cadillac SUV.