Is Cars Guide biased?

[THE_EGG]

Personally I take car awards with a large grain of salt. I will buy the car I am happy with, not if someone else is happy with it.

[kaanage]

And here is one of the main reasons why it just doesn't happen.

As hooba pointed out, the link isn't quite true.
It does show that hybrids and EVs are even more heavily subsidised by tax payers when you read this article and read that for non-lead acid batteries

Battery recycling is energy-intensive, and it takes 6 to 10 times more energy to reclaim metals from recycled batteries as it does to produce the materials through other means, including mining

and

Manufacturers, agencies and governments still must provide subsidies to support the battery recycling programs. This is underwritten by a tax added to each manufactured cell.

so the recycling plants need heavy government funding to operate as they are not commercially viable (not that just tossing them is a good idea).