Overview

• Deutsche Umwelthilfe issued 151 red cards to 238 surveyed officials for vehicles at least 20% above the 2025 EU fleet target of 93.6 g CO2/km.
• Seven of eleven evaluated federal ministers received red cards, while four ministers using pure electric cars — Carsten Schneider, Reem Alabali-Radovan, Karin Prien and Karsten Wildberger — earned green ratings.
• Only 87 officials drive purely battery-electric service cars, though the share of pure EVs at the federal level, including state secretaries, edged up from 50% to 57% year over year.
• Bavaria’s Markus Söder drives the most CO2‑intensive listed car at 292 g/km, and Baden‑Württemberg’s Winfried Kretschmann is the only state premier with a pure EV, rated at 70 g/km.
• DUH applied WLTP figures, treated plug‑in hybrids as combustion‑driven and excluded armored central‑government cars, prompting pushback from offices and parties as the group warns policy drift could jeopardize the 2035 combustion phaseout.