You can burn your fuel at the power plant many miles away, or you can burn your fuel under the hood.
Either way, you’re burning fuel.
There’s no such thing as an “electric” car.
There are gasoline fueled cars, diesel fueled cars, coal fueled cars, methane fueled cars, uranium fueled cars, hydrogen (fusion) fueled cars ...
Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have water-fueled cars. By that, I mean hydropower. Got a lot of it up here.