Like a locomotive except less efficient.
Some relatives of mine moved to Hawaii in the past few months, job change. Liberals. So we're chatting with them a couple days ago, and the issue of electric cars came up, "clean" energy and all that. Thinking of getting one. I told the husband that electric cars are dirty, dirtier than gasoline powered cars. He asked "how's that?". I asked him if he sees any nuclear power plants or hydro-electric plants in Hawaii. Then told him almost all the electriciy in Hawaii is generated by burning oil and coal. So recharging that clean electric car is burning oil. Thousands of megawatts produced by burning oil. Half a megawatt here and there produced by wind or alternatives.
They were speechless! Said they would check for themselves. I said good!