The danger of centralising your fuel supply is evident, if the electric grid goes down no-one gets to work - and what happened in Canada a few years ago where a solar flare can put your whole electrical system out of action for a long time may get more common if the sun gets 'angrier'. If we had been reliant on electrified cars and trains in WW2 we would have lost the war very quickly, the Germans would have just bombed power stations (as any other enemy could today, including terrorists), the whole country would have ground to a halt in a couple of weeks. The only thing that kept UK going was the fact that fuel was de-centralised and easy to store, steam trains ran on plentiful, easily available coal and road vehicles ran on petrol which was scarce during the war but there was enough, and it was so randomly stored that Jerry couldn't knock it all out with a couple of bombs.
I bet the military will never use EV (it is called putting all your eggs in one basket) it would make them too vulnerable to losing electrical power, and when you invade a country the first think that goes out is the electricity supply - and if you use big generators I guess they will be fossil powered, as wind and solar farms stick out like a sore thumb and easily put out of action - also vehicles immobilised at charging stations would make easy pickings.
Planes could not fly without fossil fuel, the energy to weight ratio of fossil fuels makes powered flight possible on a commercial scale (there have been electric aircraft, but they can just about carry themselves, let alone any useful cargo or passengers).
Fossil fuel will be around for a long time yet, with new commercially viable sources being discovered regularly.
No car maker can afford not to be on the EV 'bandwagon' and until a lot of the hype has died down and we can see the wood through the trees there will be claims and counterclaims of great innovations and progress, polls suggest that 50% of people don't want EV, Tesla has not made a cent in profit in 10 years, and the initial cost of EV and rapid depreciation make buying a new one out of the question for a lot of people, and for cheap second hand ones to be available someone has to buy new and take a hit (or lease and take a hit) at present time battery lease cost for a eg. a Nissan leaf is £70 per month and upwards some people don't even buy that much fuel a month, to buy the battery is expensive and if it fails you pay to replace it I guess.
Chemicals and metals needed for batteries, magnets for motors, and conductors etc are trashing the environment big time, so where is the gain for humanity.