[yenda]

Note that it's only up to regional transparts, which means that if you can technically travel across Germany with it, it's gonna be much slower than a car. In most cases you are still going to take an Inter City Express which is not included. But now you can go from your small city next to Berlin to your grandpa's next to Hamburg and only have to worry about the ICE. The trip would last roughly as long as it would with the car end to end, and cost you less (way less if you then completely renounce owning a car)

[throwaway85858]

Having looked at the connections as they are, i think there are a handful of optimizations that could be made to the schedule and routes available that would reduce the ICE time advantage, like for example Berlin to Leipzig doesn't have a direct regional train.