There's no great solution for the quandary we've put ourselves into wrt energy use and transportation.
One of the biggest issues is actually urban planning and infrastructure closely followed by lifestyle, which are related of course. If we didn't have to drive to do everything, including go to work, it would cut car use down by a massive amount, doing more to reduce energy consumption and pollution than whatever your choice of 2-ton personal conveyance might be. Many of our recent urban and suburban design is completely unsuitable for bikes and pedestrians to the point it's dangerous to walk and bike in many areas. Home sizes have also grown, and it uses a lot of energy to heat and cool buildings. We put up strip malls and pave-over everything for parking lots for miles at a stretch. We've created an unsustainable suburban wasteland that covers way too much of our country in the last few decades. This is hard to undo and even hard to slow down the spread because municipalities are often dependent on growth to be able to fund their own infrastructure maintenance.
All forms of energy have their pros and cons. For example, nuclear plants only return energy on a 5:1 ratio and that doesn't include long term storage of radioactive waste. The reason is the construction of such plants takes immense amounts of energy, concrete is one of the largest contributors of carbon emissions, and it takes a lot of concrete to build a nuclear plant. There's also waste heat, nuclear can significantly raise the temp of the body of water required to cool it's reactors.
I studied renewables in school and worked for Vestas wind turbines for a couple years. I designed assembly processes for their Nacelle and Hub factory in Brighton, CO. Wind is returning over 20:1 ratio of energy investment, but it needs a windy location without a lot of population and we still don't have good energy storage. So wind farms often have to be located far away from where the power is used. Solar has similar issues as far as storage and suitable locations, and manufacturing them certainly isn't "green" while wind turbines are more recyclable, but solar is easier to deploy.
So what makes sense is highly variable, there's no single answer and no best solution for either power or transportation. There's no doubt electric is the future both for cars and homes but the current tech leaves much to be desired. Going "green" often costs a small fortune. I'm about to replace my home's HVAC, and the "best" option right now is a Mitsubishi heat pump powered by solar. But my home would need a whole new service entrance, panels, the heat pump and install, add in an EV charger and $50k later I'm "green". There's some rebates involved but not enough to make it financially feasible for those who couldn't afford it anyways, so the rebates are mostly going to people who don't really need it. So IDK, maybe I'll stick with a gas furnace and regular AC system considering I don't have the $50k for the home upgrade right now.
I think all we can hope for is tech that progresses as quickly as possible for both energy production and storage. Right now I don't think your choice of EV vs ICE makes much of a difference. On Tesla, the more Elon tweets the less I want to buy anything he's selling, lol, what a clown!
