Bad title. The car was impractical for his role. > In an internal memo, a senior aide explained to one of the state’s fleet managers in June that while the Tes

Bad title. The car was impractical for his role. > In an internal memo, a senior aide explained to one of the state’s fleet managers in June that while the Tesla’s performance was superior to other EVs in the market, it was nonetheless “ill suited” for official business given the distances Remmel needed to cover in North Rhein-Westphalia. > Not only was the certified European range of 500 kilometers (311 miles) impossible to achieve, even 400 km could not be realized with a fully charged battery, the aide said. That meant in practice the environment minister could travel only as far as 150 km before being forced to turn back — otherwise “the style of driving has to be adjusted to an extreme degree to the charge status of the battery.”