The EU policy – with the intended exclusion of combustion engines and consequently the dictate to electric mobility in the on-road and off-road sectors on the one hand, and on the other hand with the exclusive focus of the Euro legal limit stages solely on driving operation (tank-to-wheel, TtW) while neglecting the influences of all relevant processes of vehicle production (cradle-to-gate, CtG), energy supply (well-to-tank, WtT) and recycling/disposal (end-of-life, EoL) – leads to a misguiding distortion of the ecological facts while at the same time ignoring the constraints of a free market economy. The necessity of a “propulsion transition” is questionable, and the feasibility of an “energy transition” with an exclusive focus on German domestic renewable energies and thus energy autarky seems to be underestimated by far. With comprehensive “system thinking” (vehicle load and range, charging times and charging spaces, energy generation, distribution and refuelling infrastructure as well as required power grids) the intended energy transition for Germany is more than questionable.