Youre definitely not wrong in that evs can be as bad as an ice, though you overstate the equivaence of emissions created at the start of a vehicles life.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/business/electric-vehicles-carbon-footprint-batteries.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/07/26/lifetime-emissions-of-evs-are-lower-than-gasoline-cars-experts-say.html

“Last year, researchers from the universities of Cambridge, Exeter and Nijmegen in The Netherlands found that in 95% of the world, driving an electric car is better for the environment than driving a gasoline-powered car”

So yes, im most cases evs are better, unless the electricity you use is not renewable but rather very dirty coal. I live in ontario, where we run nuclear and hydro, fully green energy. In my case, an ev easily cuts total emissions in half.

Of course, bikes would be a dream. I love biking, i watch notjustbikes, and ive visited countries with biking infrastructure that is amazing. Unfortunately, western society is not build for bikes. Neighbourhoods are literally designed around cars (wtf!), but this feedback loop means more cars and more cities built for cars.

So whats the plan? Deconstruct america? Or take a step to produce a car that can be better for the environment while simultaneously increasing renewable energy production (bidens renewables stuff?).