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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5 Why do we consider electric cars "green" if we need fossil fuel to produce electricity ?
gpt
There are other ways to produce electricity - solar, wind, hydro, nuclear.

Additionally, even fossil-fuel power plants are more efficient than an internal combustion engine, and they also produce less polluting gasses (relative to the amount of energy they produce).