If you sink ~7000 Euro into a Bahncard 100 first class, you can go mostly anywhere for free. So by the logic of only counting marginal costs, it’s 25.4 € more e

If you sink ~7000 Euro into a Bahncard 100 first class, you can go mostly anywhere for free. So by the logic of only counting marginal costs, it’s 25.4 € more expensive to travel from Berlin to Frankfurt by car as opposed to railway. Berlin to Frankfurt takes about 4 to 5 hours. For the car, this is time spent driving. For the train, we may have to subtract about 30 mins waiting in Leipzig or Hanover for a connecting train, leaving you with 3.5 to 4.5 hours in the train. At a modest 15€/hour, your car trip is now 77.9 to 92.9€ more expensive than the train journey.