Exactly, I think an EV and ICE car is the way to go for households that can afford more than one car. Best of both worlds. For households that can only afford one car, ICE is still the best bet.
But if you live in the southern half of the U.S., are married and need 2 cars anyway, and one of your 2 cars is on its last legs and needs replacing soon anyway (as my wife's was last year), and your power rates are relatively cheap, then an EV is worth at least considering.
And since I just said EV's are worth considering for southerners, that's also a good region to consider solar to make yourself more energy independent. On my most recent bill for February (read: bad month for solar because it's winter which is bad for solar) I pulled 594 kWh from the grid. However in the February 2021 bill (the most recent February before I went solar) I pulled 801 kWh from the grid. Thus in the past 2 years I've lowered my grid pull even though I've gotten rid of my large natural gas bill (by making my house all electric in fall 2021) and most of my costs for gasoline at the pump (by doing most of our driving in the EV since summer 2022). Those two things would normally greatly increase my power demand making this February's bill a lot more than February 2 years ago. But the solar system (installed in May 2021 as a trial run then added onto in August 2022) provided 1,182 kWh of free power on this February's bill.
Until a fellow conservative figures out a way for each of us to drill our own natural gas or oil or mine or own coal, probably the best way for us southerners to insulate ourselves from the effects of the Dims trying to control us with energy is to use decentralized solar. It's not perfect, but it gives my family some buffer between us and the Dims' stupid energy policies making their energy less dependable and much more costly. By doing most of our driving in the EV, the energy freedom from our solar is extended into freedom of transportation as well (at least for round trips no longer than 200 or so miles).