German Green Car Reversal in Porsche State Opens Road to Merkel
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In April 2011, before he became Germany’s first state premier from the Greens party, Winfried Kretschmann said he’d like fewer cars on the roads. Two days later, the head of a global automaker came to his office.
“He told me his target was zero emissions,” Kretschmann, now the prime minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg, said in the garden of his official villa in the hills overlooking Stuttgart, the state capital. “I told him we can reach an understanding.”