Overview

• DUH issued red cards to 151 of 238 vehicles that were at least 20% above the EU’s 93.6 g CO2/km reference, including seven of eleven examined federal ministers.
• Only 87 of 238 service cars are pure battery‑electric, though the federal share including state secretaries inched up from 50% to 57% versus last year.
• Bavaria’s Markus Söder had the highest value at 292 g/km, while Baden‑Württemberg’s Winfried Kretschmann is the only minister‑president with an electric car at 70 g/km.
• Among federal ministers, Environment Minister Carsten Schneider’s electric car was calculated at about 62 g/km, while Labor Minister Bärbel Bas’s plug‑in hybrid registered 209 g/km.
• DUH counts plug‑in hybrids as driven in combustion mode and excludes heavily armoured central government cars, as it criticizes weak leadership and flags attempts to roll back the 2035 combustion‑engine phaseout.