Updated 03/29/2019 11:35:52 CET
The average age of the vehicles of the Executive is 10 years
MADRID, March 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The whole of the members of the Government, formed by 18 people, including the president, uses a total of 35 official vehicles for their movements and, of these, 43% (15 units) have a hybrid propulsion system, according to data from the State Mobile Park (PME).
These data, to which Europa Press had access, point out that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has at his disposal a total of three armored units of the Audi A8 model, all of them with gasoline engines.
The first of the A8 used by the Prime Minister is registered in 2005, while the second of them was registered in 2007 and the third, in 2017, after replacing, as of December 11, 2017, an armored Lancia Thesis .
On the other hand, each one of the ministers of the Government has assigned two vehicles for its transport, a Peugeot 607 armored with gasoline engine and a Ford Mondeo with hybrid propulsion system.
Most of the armored Peugeot 607 were registered in 2001, with the exception of two units that did so in 2003, one in 2004 and two units in 2006, while the Mondeo Hybrids were registered in 2018.
As an exception, the Minister of the Presidency and Vice President of the Government, Carmen Calvo, uses two armored Audi A6 from 2003 and 2007, one with a gasoline engine and another diesel, while the Minister of Development, José Luis Ábalos, does not use the Peugeot 607 , but a Ford Mondeo gasoline.
In the case of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, he does not use for his mobility service any vehicle belonging to the State’s Mobile Park, but rather it is his own Department that supplies the vehicles.
These data show that of the total of 35 vehicles used by members of the Government, fifteen of them are Ford Mondeo Hybrids, while three are Audi A8 armored at the disposal of the President of the Government, two Audi A6, in use by Carmen Bald.
In addition, the ministers use fourteen units of armored Peugeot 607 registered since 2001, with the exception of Abalos, who instead of the saloon of the French brand has at his disposal a Ford Mondeo gasoline registered in 2009.
Thus, much of the Government’s vehicles are less than one year old, in the case of hybrid versions, while almost all Peugeot 607 ministers are over 18 years old. In this way, the average age of the Executive’s mobile fleet is ten years.