For me I want the wife and I to have a dependable ICE (well known technology) that won't have it or her bothering me about our transportation. I also want the transportation to have some trade-in value after using it for several years and not need a $15,000 battery every 3-4 years. I mean ... really?
In fairness I wouldn't buy an ICE vehicle that had an engine that was prone to self-destruction every few thousand miles (see GMs latest V8s).
For us, I now pay three energy bills: a small power bill + car payment + a loan (with a low fixed interest) I took out to do energy home improvements (insulation, replace two gas appliances with high efficiency electric ones, install a small solar system for a year then like it enough to upgrade it the year I bought the EV).
The EV is a 4-year loan (car purchase, not a lease), in which case after that I'll have just the low power bill + loan payment. My energy budget now is what it was in year 2019 (the last Trump year before covid, so the last normal energy year) when I was instead paying a normal power bill + normal natural gas bill + a lot of gasoline cost (gas prices weren't higher, but we drive a lot). So count it as my energy project having made the past few years of stupid energy price inflation not hitting my budget.
Will Trump bring energy costs down? I'm hoping so. Even with that, I'll own the EV outright next year and will be down to just the small power bill + loan payment. So even if Trump brings energy costs way down, I'm still better off paying the loan payment to not have otherwise higher power bill + natural gas bill + gasoline costs (if hadn't had done the energy project). But again, you must do your homework before doing what I did. You might not be in a good situation to do this (i.e. good climate for solar, drive enough miles for the gas savings of an EV, home a lot for using power during the day when the sun is out, including charging the EV usually in the day, etc.)
Will I replace the EV battery at the recommended 10 years? It depends. Will we still use it for most of our long trips? By then my old gas pickup might need replacing anyway, so we might have a newer vehicle than the EV for long trips. Thus, we'll have no need to make the EV have a long enough range for trips, just using it mainly for local driving. (No need to replace the battery.) Or perhaps my old gas pickup will still be good for what it does for us (after all we don't drive it nearly as much now). And perhaps replacing the EV battery will be cheaper than it is now. I dunno. For now I assumed it'll be about $17K on the 10-year anniversary of owning the EV (adjusting for a 3% inflation rate, which is low, but it's the same inflation rate I use to calculate rising energy costs to give me a pessimistic outlook). Again, the gas savings of an EV is the local driving done with home charged miles. Last year we drove the EV 26K miles, with 16K of those being home charged miles. The home charged miles don't require a long range, thus I may not replace the EV battery if its purpose is to keep getting the gas and oil change savings of home charged miles.