I was reading an SF novel set in the future on another planet, and for most of the book I was thinking, this could just be a cops and robbers story set maybe in 1930s America for all the SF that's in it.
Then the cops turned off the over-the-air broadcast electric power that was powering all vehicles to trap the hero where he was, and I thought, now you're talking. (Of course the cop cars should have had independent onboard emergency power supplies, but they hadn't. I suppose the story wouldn't have worked if they'd had that.)