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Question of the Month: Will the next car you purchase be an EV or a Hybrid Electric Vehicle?

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e14 Question of the Month

Fast chargers and improvements in battery technology are alleviating some of the concerns that people have with EVs; however, hybrids and ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles can still be great cars.  Take the poll and let us know what kind of car you would buy, and please tell us why in the Comments section below! 

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    I remember when my niece's husband had his Hybrid and had to change the battery.

    Talk about sticker shock, they bought a new gasoline powered car instead.

  • 0 in reply to DAB

    In some cases it looks like it can be around half the cost of a new vehicle. Something they tend to leave out of the glossy sales brochure.

    There appear to be other issues often over-looked with the battery side of things. It appears that globally only a very small proportion of lithium batteries are being recycled due to it currently being cheaper to mine new materials than to recycle old ones. However it appears to take over 2million litres of water for around every tonne of lithium mined.

    This presumably needs to change significantly if there is going to be a global shift to EV (along with solar battery storage) otherwise we will end up with more toxic landfill sites and water shortages.

  • 0 in reply to beacon_dave

    There are only two ways lithium batteries can be recycled.

    One is so expensive and time consuming it's impractical and the other is so toxic to the environment it cannot be approved. That is why less than 5% of lithium batteries are recycled.

    You may be wondering what is going to the mountains of lithium batteries we are producing each year? Me too.

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