Five minutes out from Erfurt, we're still on track to arrive just on time. Deutsche Bahn, you've done it!

Incredibly, we arrived in Bamberg just two minutes behind schedule, and now, pulling out, we're projected to get to Erfurt on time. Deutsche Bahn might really get one for the win column.

Pulling out of Nürnberg, we're now four minutes behind schedule. It's gonna be tight.

Let's play this game again.

Yesterday, Deutsche Bahn lost. Now I'm on a train from Munich to Erfurt. We've made it to northern Bavaria, and so far we're still on time.

Can it hold? Stay tuned.

An hour out from Munich, we're now projected to arrive 14 minutes late. I think this one's destined for the loss column.

Now we're running 9 minutes late. Not looking good...

We left Berlin on time. But then the train stalled in Dessau due to a "door problem."

We're now scheduled to arrive in Munich 5 minutes late, which by Deutsche Bahn's definition would be an on-time arrival.

But that's assuming nothing else goes wrong...

Just over a year ago, Tesla was the No. 2 electric car seller in Germany, and its Model Y was the bestselling model.

Now Tesla has fallen to No. 9, and the Model Y is no longer in the top 10.

It's easy to feel like for all of Germans' complaints, their train system is still 1000 times better than the American one. And that's not wrong. But when basically half of trains are arriving more than 6 minutes late (and some of them many hours late), it's not a great situation.

Only 56% of German long-distance trains arrived within 6 minutes of the scheduled time last month.

Interestingly, things are much better on regional trains and on public transit (which is still a source of constant complaints among Berliners).