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While it's true that electric cars still use tons of fossil fuels and the marketing can be misleading, I think the big picture goal is to simply have cars that can actually run on electricity.

Generating electricity in an environmentally-friendly way is almost an entirely separate problem from using electricity to run things that used to not run on electricity. Electric cars try to solve the latter problem, and the hope is that the widespread existence of electric cars will make the transition to clean energy easier in the future.