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

I'm getting a hybrid 

Probably not - when recycling lithium batteries is practical and EV vehicles are not primarily charged with fossil fuel generated electricity maybe. Right now they are an environmental catastrophe in the making.

Youre incorrect on this and the move is global. Using electricity to generate heat is the most inefficient way to use electricity. There simply isn't enough capacity in any existing energy grid any where in the world to supply or generate enough electricity to replace hydrocarbon generation.

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.

Wonder how they intend producing all this hydrogen given the amount of energy required to produce a joule of hydrogen energy is about a joule?

Then you have to have an infrastructure to supply it which is prohibitively expensive.

Then you have to have infrastructure to convert hydrogen to electricity and transmit that.

This means it take more than 10 times the hydrocarbons to generate electricity from hydrogen that it does to simple generate electricity from hydrocarbons.

All of those 92k are ICE vehicles, the failure a capacitor in the oil pump ECU.

"Hyundai and Kia are telling the owners of nearly 92,000 vehicles in the U.S. to park them outside because an electronic controller in an oil pump can overheat and cause fires.

The companies say in documents posted Thursday by U.S. safety regulators that a capacitor on a circuit board in the oil pump assembly for the transmission may have been damaged by the supplier during manufacturing. That can cause a short-circuit and increase the risk of a fire."

If you follow the link provided you'll see that those stats tend to hide the real issues. The stats are restricted to manufacturer recalls only and reflect the differences in the range of manufacturers producing these vehicle types. There are a lot more manufacturers of hybrid and gas vehicles and more likely to include low quality control relative to electric. This has now changed with Chinese manufacturers needing to reduce their over production due to govt subsidies.

Also the major safety issue covered in the article is that you can quickly extinguish a gas car fire but it simply is not possible to extinguish an electric car fire. This means an electric car fire always results in the total destruction of the vehicle and everything around it. With the increasing use of charging stations in underground carparks in shopping centers and apartment buildings it doesn't take a genius to predict what is going to be happening more frequently as EVs become more common.

Scalextric scaled up ?

"Why we might soon drive cars on electrified roads"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0gcbkjs/why-we-might-soon-drive-cars-on-electrified-roads