ORIGINAL: madhun1
To be perfectly fair, I'll point out the fact that most electric power ultimately comes from fossil fuel also
Last time I checked Lithium is a metal, but the battery packs would no doubt require some form of fossil fuel in their manufacturing process, and the electricity used to charge them would inevitably come from a fossil fuel.
Whilst methanol is largely sourced from Natural Gas, it can also be sourced from decaying organic matter.
Yes, methanol
can be made from plants, it wasn't originally called wood alcohol for nothing. You could recharge batteries with a windmill also.