Baerbock will soon get an e-company car - but not Habeck

Created: 2022-02-11, 2:35 p.m

By: Cindy Boden

Annalena Baerbock gets into a car: will she soon be on the road electrically?

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Baerbock also apparently gets an electric car as a minister - but only as an additional option.

The reason behind it is also crucial for her colleague Habeck.

Berlin - What means of transport do the Green government members use?

This question has come up several times since the traffic light government took office.

On the day of the swearing-in, pictures of Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir on a bicycle made the rounds.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made headlines with her announcement that she would at least consider alternatives to flying on her business trips.

In the area of ​​company cars, on the other hand, cars with alternative drives play a role.

So who drives an electric car?

After all, the goals in Germany are high - but there are still problems in some areas, as a data analysis by IPPEN.MEDIA shows.

Are the Green Ministers a role model?

Baerbock soon on the road in an electric ministerial car?

Depends on

Two purely battery-electric cars belonging to ministers are already appearing in an overview of

, among others

.

Two more have been ordered.

Özdemir drives an Audi E-Tron.

The government's first all-electric ministerial car from last year is currently being driven by Environment Minister Steffi Lemke.

She took over the car from her predecessor Svenja Schulze (SPD).

Now Family Minister Anne Spiegel is coming with a new battery model.

, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is also planning to purchase 

a Mercedes-Benz EQS.

report, the delivery date

depends on "the current situation on the semiconductor market".

That was announced by the Foreign Office.

(Traffic lights ahead of big tasks - you can find out what the SPD, Greens and FDP are planning in our political newsletter.)

Baerbock soon with an electric car, Habeck not: The armor is crucial

Robert Habeck, climate minister from the Greens, is not among the ministers mentioned.

But that has a specific reason: his status as Vice Chancellor.

With this role, he “basically drives in a specially protected vehicle of the Federal Criminal Police Office” and uses the various vehicles from the government fleet, the

quotes the ministry as saying.

So the special armor is important.

According to the report, it is not worth building electric versions according to the BKA standard from the manufacturer's point of view.

But can Baerbock drive your model at all?

This question also goes to

after.

Der

has learned that Baerbock is getting its new Mercedes-Benz as an additional option to the BKA-tested fleet.

But she can't always use it.