If you want to get a letter about driving this year, you will have to pay several thousand euros. According to ADAC, driver’s cards in Germany cost from 2500 to 4,500 euros.
There is no fixed bet to get driver license In Germany. Expenses vary depending on the federal state, the region and the managed school. But they have one common feature: driving cards are becoming more and more expensive.
Compared to the previous year, prices for managed schools and exams increased by 5.8% in 2024. For the same period Prices Knot consumer Increased much slower pace by 2.2%. The increase was especially strong in the year of coronavirus 2021, from 9.6 percent.
Registration of the Federal Statistical Service consists of prices freely collected by leading schools. Tüv and Dekra tests are also included and account for about twelve percent of the total. However, in 2022, from the very beginning of statistics in 1991, the greatest increase in the cost of driving letters was observed: the drivers -the presenters paid another 10.8 percent. The total inflation was already 6.9%.
More and more expensive driver’s license: costs of vehicles, fuel and staff are increasing
The reasons for this trend are becoming higher costs, such as an increase in the rates of the use of vehicles, fuel and personnel. Inflation also played a role. For example, on January 1, 2025, CO2 prices increased from 45 to 55 euros per ton. This influenced fuel prices.
Earlier this month, transport ministers of the federal states agreed to a conference in Nuremberg that driver’s letters should be available. “Driving letters cost up to 4,000 euros for young people,” said Christian Bernreiter, Minister of Transport of Bavaria.
Knot Coalition agreementWhich has not yet been approved by CDU and SPD by the end of the month, the parties provide that the car is an important means of transport, “especially for people in rural areas.” The Black Red Coalition wants to reform the formation of drivers in order to make a driver’s license more affordable. ”
High indicators of disapproval in theoretical and practical exams
Theoretical education is overloaded and leads to high indicators of disapproval. Tüv associations show that much more than one third of the drivers for beginners (41% in 2024) failed theoretical study of class B. Almost every third died at the first attempt by a practical examination. Repeats are associated with additional fees – the driving exam costs about 130 euros.
The President of the German Confederation of Craftsman (ZDH) Yorg Ditrich even said last year that people in rural areas should receive a subsidy for a driver’s license instead of a ticket to Germany. “This is due to the fact that buses often do not spread when they need, for example, in the morning very early, when you want to get to the shipyard or the training center,” he said.
More people use buses and trains
However, where the local network of public transport is well developed, regular services work well. According to the report, the number of passengers increased by five percent by 2024 compared to the previous year. Regular bus and train services registered about 11.4 billion passengers in 2024.
According to the Federal Institute of Statistics “, DeutschlandticketIntroduced in May 2023, significantly contributed to this. “Since its introduction, a constant increase in the number of passengers has been registered. Only railway transport over long distances. The volume of the passenger is smaller. The Federal Statistical Service believes that many strikes are the cause of this fact.
Transport companies also believe that Deutschlandticket This is a “success story.” Industry and passengers finally need a mandatory multi-financed obligation, “so that the ticket potential can be fully used,” said the German press, general director of the Association of the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV), Olvier Wolf.
The future of Deutschlandticticet is provided for in the coalition agreement
On the social platform, the X Minister of Transport on the back, Walker Vissing, called Deutschlandticket as the largest “modernization of recent decades.”
Deutschlandticket was the subject of research negotiations: SDP wants to forever offer a ticket at the current price of 58 euros per month, with discounts for families, students and the elderly. CDU/CSU was divided until the end, because CSU criticized federal ticket financing.
The coalition agreement now clarifies its continuity: Deutschlandtocket remains. “The share of user financing will increase gradually and socially responsible since 2029,” the agreement on long -term financing will say. A fixed key should be agreed, which guarantees security planning for customers, the federal government and federal states in terms of financing.
One study From Greenpeace, he came to the conclusion that Deutschlandticticket would pay himself because economic benefits from the ticket compensate for its additional costs. The non -profit organization calculates the subsequent costs of automotive mobility, such as CO2 emissions and health damage caused by air pollution.