No but it will use coal. And if enough people start using electric vehicles instead of gasoline vehicles, it will put a strain on the electical grid. The problem is that the libs are not willing to allow the creation of new coal powered electrical plants and the "green technology" power plants are just too darned unreliable to produce the needed uptick in electrical demand that would occur if the electric car were ever to achieve commercial viability.
Environmentalists are going to stand in the way of new hydro-electical plants, coal powered plants, natural gas plants and nuclear plants. Those are the only dependable sources of electrical power available and they are simply not building any new plants of that order.
So at this point the whole idea of creating fleets of electrical cars is stupid. First we have to make sure that we will have the electrical power to charge these things by the millions. If we make the cars without creating additional sources of reliable electrical power, then pretty soon the cost of electricity to charge your electric car will be substantially more than the cost of gasoline. And the cost of everything else you do will be likewise increase exponentially.
The electrical grid is pretty much at maximum capacity right now (especially in the summer). You introduce a million electric cars into the equation without introducing enough additional coal or hyrdo-electric or nuclear plants to cover the additional demand, and you will have a breakdown of the whole electrical grid. It will then cost you about $20 a day to charge your 40 mile Volt and an additional $20 a day to wash your clothes and watch your TV.
The green left would look pretty silly if the electric car they support does not have eneough power to recharge its batteries. I think the extreme green left would be over run by more moderate calls for development of more coal and nuclear power generation.