Aircraft carriers can be defensive weapons. Britain couldn’t have won the Falkland war without there carriers (although you could argue they reconquered them, but in defence of a part of their country), they can move many men and their jets to the place that has to be defended. Remember that there are European countries with land overseas.

The chancellor and deputy chancellor — as well as the ministers for finance, the interior, defense and health — were all excluded from the study. The reason for this is that these vehicles are all armored, meaning that they are sure to be much heavier than standard models and therefore less energy efficient.

I thought this would be the reason to the headline, but nope. By now are usable electric cars for longer distances available, even from German companys: VW ID.7, BMW I7, I5, I4, Mercedes EQS and EQE. And to be honest, I don’t think many of them would even need to charge at all, Germanys Bundesländer aren’t that big (mostly).