The recycle thing is kind of a scam. The recyclers have some low paid workers standing by a conveyor mainly looking for aluminum cans. They might get some plastic, maybe, if it's large and doesn't have the cap on it and throw that in another bin. Cardboard has negative value unless it's adjacent to a cardboard recycling plant, which they aren't. Plastic bottles are usually PE and caps are PP and they don't recycle in the same stream. A bottle with a cap on it goes to landfill. Glass is dangerous so they ignore that, unless it's in a source separated glass stream.
Most goes to landfill, I suspect that 26% figure is only for some highly developed recycling ops.
You can calculate how much it costs to charge your car at home pretty easily. Here it would be pretty cheap, I'm paying about 6 cents per kWhr last I checked. An EV may need 60-100 to recharge. EVs rarely need new brakes and don't need oil changes.
I'd go plug in hybrid if I wanted to be economical right now.
