Europe is also just one long Friedrichstrasse. A capitalism-skeptical majority of green and left-wing MEPs has decided that combustion engines will no longer be permitted from 2035. What the alternatives look like is at least open. And how the affordable mobility of the future will be made possible, too.

Other parts of the world are unlikely to follow the European trend. But the Greens in Berlin showed how transformation works: crippling what already exists in order to make what doesn’t yet work inevitably appear attractive.

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