Every Deutsche Bahn ICE train, class by class.
Check which train type runs your service before you rely on a socket — the same route often sees different stock through the day. Where a cell reads Not listed, no source we can stand behind says that port is there or isn't; we'd rather tell you that than guess. Carry a bank for the platform and the walk at either end regardless.
ICE L
Talgo · in service since Dec 2025
The newest ICE and the clearest answer on the whole fleet: DB emphasises a power outlet at every seat, and specifically that this holds in 2nd class too — which is only worth emphasising because it is not how the rest of the ICE fleet works. It is also the one ICE where the USB answer is a documented no rather than a shrug: coverage of the launch states the train has no USB ports and no wireless Qi charging, and reads that as the ICE L lagging behind ÖBB's newer stock. Entered passenger service in December 2025 on Berlin–Cologne via Münster or Dortmund; 562 seats across 17 carriages. If you are on this train, one socket is yours — and a cable alone still gets you nothing.
Long-distance · international
VerifiedICE 3neo
Class 408
No source documents USB-A or USB-C anywhere on the ICE 3neo — in any class. Plan around the sockets above.
One of the two series that escape DB's shared-socket baseline. DB's own ICE 3neo page is unambiguous — power sockets for every seat in 1st and 2nd class — and in 1st class nothing contradicts it. Second class is the one cell on this page marked “Sources disagree”: ShowMeTheJourney says 2nd class gets one socket per pair of seats, and that cannot be true at the same time as DB's sentence. Rather than quietly siding with the operator and printing a confident Yes, the table says the two accounts conflict. If you are boarding an ICE 3neo in 2nd class expecting a socket of your own, treat it as likely rather than promised. Neither source mentions USB in any form.
ICE 4
Class 412 · the fleet backbone
No source documents USB-A or USB-C anywhere on the ICE 4 — in any class. Plan around the sockets above.
The train you are most likely to actually be on, and the one where sharing is explicit: ShowMeTheJourney says in 2nd class there is one power socket for every two seats, matching DB's own fleet baseline of one socket per Doppelsitz. First class follows DB's baseline of at least two sockets per three seats — no source names the ICE 4 among the selected series that get one per seat. The location catches people out more than the count does: the sockets sit between the seats but underneath them, so a passenger scanning the wall and the seat back concludes there is no power in the carriage. DB's own ICE 4 page does not mention power at all.
Long-distance · international
Partial sourcesICE 3
Class 403 · 406
No source documents USB-A or USB-C anywhere on the ICE 3 — in any class. Plan around the sockets above.
Sockets are not in doubt — seat61 records power sockets at all seats of the usual European 2-pin type across the ICE fleet, and this series is included. The count is where we fall back to DB's own baseline, because nothing we found names the ICE 3 among the selected series that get one socket per seat. Read the row as “there is power in this carriage and you may be sharing it”, not as a measurement of a particular train. Do not confuse this series with the ICE 3neo, which is a different, newer train with a better answer.
Long-distance
Partial sourcesICE 1 · ICE 2
The original fleets, redesigned
No source documents USB-A or USB-C anywhere on the ICE 1 · ICE 2 — in any class. Plan around the sockets above.
The ICE 1 was not built with seat power — DB describes plug sockets at seats as one of the things the 2005–2008 redesign added, alongside the electronic seat display, and its later 2020 modernisation is described without any further power upgrade. So the sockets are retrofitted and DB publishes no count for them, which puts these fleets on the baseline: one per pair in 2nd, at least two per three seats in 1st. Neither train is named among the selected series with a socket at every seat, and no source mentions USB on either.
Long-distance · regional-express routes
Partial sourcesICE T
Class 411 · 415 · tilting
No source documents USB-A or USB-C anywhere on the ICE T — in any class. Plan around the sockets above.
The thinnest documentation on the fleet. DB's ICE T page covers the tilting technology, the seating, the modernisation programme it launched in December 2013 and its ETCS fitment, and says nothing at all about power — so this row rests entirely on seat61's fleet-wide statement that ICEs have power sockets at all seats of the usual European 2-pin type, with DB's baseline supplying the count. Expect a socket, expect to possibly share it, and expect no USB.
