The Diesel-Car is not a candidate for the podium. At least, that's how the German Environmental Aid (DUH) sees it. After the exhaust gas manipulations on diesel cars, the association sees the trust in the self-igniter disturbed and has listed all diesel limousines in this year's and now tenth official car check by top German politicians, but excluded them from the evaluation with "green cards". So far, the DUH has awarded green to vehicles whose CO2 emissions are below 130 grams / km; this year, the green bar was set at 95 grams on the way to the reduction target of 2020 grams in 124.
Since top politicians are frequent drivers, diesel is traditionally by far the most popular drive. Of the 231 politicians surveyed, only eight were able to obtain a green card, all of them gasoline hybrid cars with less than 124 grams of CO2 / km, all of which are used at the state level.
DUH Managing Director Jürgen Resch still sees positive signs: If you include the used diesel cars, there are no more negative rashes. Minister of Education Johanna Wanka drives the most economical company car (BMW 132 Ld xDrive) with 2 g CO730 / km from the Federal Cabinet. At the other end with 159 g / CO2 are Barbara Hendricks, Heiko Maas and Manuela Schwesig (all Audi A8 3.0 TDI quattro).
Among the heads of government of the federal states, Bremen is in first place with Carsten Sieling and 102 g CO2 / km (Mercedes E220d), in North Rhine-Westphalia Hannelore Kraft is at the other end with 268 grams. And Horst Seehofer refused to provide information.
As expected, the top politicians of the Greens took first place in the ranking by parties (124 grams) and were even below the average consumption of new car registrations in Germany. This is followed by Die Linke (138), SPD (147) and CDU (155) in front of the CSU (162). (Klaus Lockschen / SP-X)