Number Of Cars Worldwide Surpasses 1 Billion | Can The World Handle This Many Wheels?

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Key Industry in Germany: Cars
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Car-shows.com, annual report 2011, Germany […] This year 5,9 mio cars were manufactured in Germany, 718 100 employees plus increased number of temporary workers.
Chinese market for German cars growing, currently twenty one percent.
USA: 1 mio German cars being sold in 2011.
The Indian car market increased during the past year to over eighteen percent. In Brazil, demand of German cars increased since the beginning over seven percent. Russia put to sales by sixty percent to nearly 1 million new German cars.

The commercial vehicle market in Germany put to grow with “impressive speed”. In the class up to 6 t, new registrations rose in the first half to 19 percent. In the full year, sales of vans by 11 percent to 225 000 units will increase. In the heavy class (over 6 t) market growth was until June 41 percent. For the full year, the VDA President here expected a market of 92 000 vehicles (+ 24%).

source: Cars Show

Huffington Post: Number Of Cars Worldwide Surpasses 1 Billion | Can The World Handle This Many Wheels?
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Daniel Tencer, Huffington Post: The number of cars on the world’s roads surpassed one billion last year, according to a study that has spurred debate on what the rapidly-growing car population will mean for the world’s economy and environment.

According to a report from Ward’s Auto released last week, the global number of cars exceeded 1.015 billion in 2010, jumping from from 980 million the year before.

Not surprisingly, China led the way in vehicle growth, with the number of cars on Chinese roads increasing by 27.5 per cent, amounting to half the entire global growth.

That gives China the world’s second largest car population, with 78 million vehicles. But the United States still constitutes by far the largest vehicle population in the world, with 239.8 million cars, the Ward’s study reported.

In fact, China would have to increase the number of cars on its roads nearly sixteen-fold to equal the number of cars in the U.S. on a per capita basis. Ward’s reports that there are 1.3 people for every car in the U.S., while in China there are 6.75 people per vehicle. Full Article