>As more and more EVs hit the streets, the argument against cars is more ideological, about lifestyle. It's about collectivism, about giving up individual transport in favour of public alternatives.

Making the city safer and more pleasant to be in is now communist?

>Or maybe the angle they're trying to go for is another very European problem: cities are no longer designed for the people who live there, but for the people who visit them.

It seems a reasonable conclusion that the people who elect the people putting these policies in place live in these cities.