Comment: A definitive ban on internal combustion engines will plunge people from apartment buildings into mobile poverty

But nothing can be done, the decision has already been made, and it would be naive to imagine that the reassessment in 2026 will change anything. Europe will one day go electric, while most of the world will continue to drive normal combustion cars. But now the coin is on the side of the politicians to come up with a plan to save half of the population from falling into mobile poverty.

The only possible solution is that there will be an ordinary socket in front of every parking space in every street of every city. In addition, it will be equipped with a reader to which the driver will attach an identification card, thanks to which he will pay for charging with his regular domestic tariff. And that regardless of who installed the outlet in that location.

This sounds quite utopian and it is hard to imagine today that cities will be able to build something like this in a reasonable amount of time. If we were skeptical, maybe only a charging hub for a few dozen cars could be created in housing estates. I’m not really looking forward to the time when their owners will fight for rare places. Of course, today there are also battles between residents of apartment buildings for every free spot. But their result so far is not that the winner gets to work the next day, while the loser runs out of juice.