It is already called the traffic light government.
Because of the colors of the three coalition parties.
The Red Social Democrats, the Yellow Liberals and the Green Environmentalists will now together try to steer Germany towards a more modern future that they have promised the voters.
But they have built in a source of future conflicts - about money.
A center of power with soaring ambitions
The Greens now want to run full throttle and let the money roll.
Billions and billions will be invested in renewable energy and climate change in Europe's heaviest industrialized countries.
The Greens have got their own super ministry where this will take shape - the climate and the ministry of business.
It will be a center of power with soaring ambitions, but unlikely with funds that are sufficient for everything.
For the Treasury itself, the Ministry of Finance, the yellow liberals, the FDP, have seized.
And they have promised to keep their footing on the economic brake.
Preferably large digital and green investments - but not with new loans or increased taxes.
The FDP has secured the important key position in the new government.
Something they bitterly learned when they were in government last time, without that post.
Up to Scholz to prove
As a patch on the wounds, the Greens have got through one of their most important election promises: to phase out the coal earlier.
According to the agreement between the traffic light parties, the last piece of German coal should preferably be excavated by 2030, ie eight years earlier than the red and yellow ones wanted - out of concern for energy shortages.
Without this division between the yellow and the green, there would have been no government at all.
Now it's up to Olaf Scholz to prove his driving skills.
He must succeed in parrying the throttle and the brake.
Otherwise, there is a risk that there will be four jerky years along Germany's road to the future.