Electric cars aren't very green

[Derec]

If the objective is to be green, yes, we should focus on shutting down fossil fuel plants before we worry about electric cars.

As bibly said, there is no reason not to do both in parallel. Especially since development and deployment of EV technology is a decades long project no matter when it is started. So why delay it by a few more decades.
And as I showed in my last post, the situation is not nearly as bad for EV environmental balance as the OP suggested - especially when considering where the bulk of EVs are sold.

If you compare this map to the one above you see that most EVs get sold in areas with electricity production such that you need a very high mpg gasoline car (95 for California, 75 for Pacific NW) to beat an EV on carbon emission.

 

[Derec]

And it's still foolish to ignore that EVs are obviously far superior to even modern ICE vehicles when it comes to local pollution.
Particulate matter from modern gasoline engines damages our lungs
CO₂, while important, is not everything.