Tesla gives in to carmaker tradition as sales banned in West Virginia

IIRC, coal (or pretty much anything else you can generate energy with) can be used to power industrial plants that turn pretty much any organic material into pretty much any of the things you can get from refining petroleum, so gasoline-powered autos can also run indirectly on coal.

Though fossil oil needs to get a lot more expensive to extract before that becomes an economically viable way of powering cars designed for gasoline.