The car arguably, is going through it's biggest change since it's in invention.

EV's are here, and they're not going to go away. Autonomous tech is coming as well. All (including the ICE) have there own problems.

EV's are, at the moment, largely constrained by range. You need to go\drive where charging stations\points are, not necessarily where you want to go. To be fair, as others have said, more and more charging points are coming, but the recharge time is still a factor. Also, mentioned above was charge loss. Honestly, how bad is this? Hypothetically, if I drove an EV to say the airport, parked up for a week while on holiday, not plugged in, how much charge would be lost?

Autonomous cars, although the tech exists, as far as I know its the legal\morale side that is yet to be answered, e.g. if\should any autonomous car crash, who is at fault? The owner, dealer\salesperson, manufacturer? Also, don't autonomous cars also rely, to a degree, on the road marking? In NZ at least, how would an autonomous car drive a country road, which doesn't have the centre marking?

The ICE. It's only in the last few years that the ICE has been made more efficient with turbo charging and 9 speed gearboxes helping with fuel economy, range, and performance. If Christian Von Koenigsegg is to be believed, the current traditional gearbox results in a lot of lost energy. His company has tested and developed an ICE powered vehicle without a traditional gearbox, so why isn't this tech being championed more? Mainly, because the manufacturers seemed to be locked in a power war, and are obsessed with 'ring lap times.

Then you have the fuel cell vehicles. Elon Musk says they are dangerous, but of course he would, as he's built himself a little empire off electric battery powered vehicles. But if the same levels of R&D went into this medium as has been done with Hybrids, PHEV and EV's then maybe this would be, and maybe will be, who knows, another viable alternative.