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The fuel used in ICE cars is by far the majority of the energy used by/for an individual car. For an EV, the energy used to drive it is significantly less, so the proportion of energy used to produce it, is probably higher, but overall the total energy used by an EV is much less than any ICE.
Let's not forget that it takes a lot of electricity to run an ICE; enough to let you run an EV as far as a typical car does on each gallon of fuel. So *all* the fossil fuel is above and beyond the energy overhead of an EV.
Gasoline is an incredibly energy dense fuel. Each gallon of gasoline is equivalent to something 60+ sticks of dynamite. It takes millions and millions of years in very specific conditions to turn about 92 tons of biological material for each gallon of gasoline. That is a whole lot more energy than a day of sunshine on a medium sized PV system on someone's house.
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