The Ghost in the Traffic Jam For decades, we’ve lived with a quiet paradox. We design our lives around the "freedom" of the car, only to spend those lives sitting in traffic, staring at the bumper in front of us. When the energy transition began, our first instinct was to "optimise" this frustration. We thought that if we simply swapped the gas tank for a battery, the problem would be solved. But as 2025 has shown us, a traffic jam of five thousand electric vehicles is still