Top 7 Countries by Motor vehicle production 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_vehicle_production

World                    77,621,582

  1. China                 25,225,242
  2. United States     8,822,399
  3. Japan                  8,067,557
  4. Germany            3,742,454
  5. South Korea       3,506,774
  6. India                    3,394,446
  7. Mexico                3,176,600

Fastest Growing automobile market:

    • China

A number of cars per person:

    • In the US – 0.89 cars / person
    • In China – 0.24 cars / person

If cars per capita in China would be as in the US,

China alone would have over 1 billion automobiles

How Many Cars Are There In The World Today?

  • 2009 – 1 billion
  • 2016 – 1.32 billion
  • 2018 – 1.42 billion

Projecting this progression to 2021:  1.6 billion automobiles on the road.

The 2 billion automobiles on the road are expected by 2030.

 

The proportion between passenger and commercial automobiles is about 3:1

 

(In 2018 1.4 billion in operation worldwide, including 1.06 billion passenger cars and 363 million commercial vehicles)

In 2018 almost 99% of all automobiles on the road were still powered by gasoline or diesel.

 

The worldwide number of battery electric vehicles in use from 2016 to 2020 (in millions)

Units available                       Sales
  • 2016 1.2 M                   0.8
  • 2017 1.9 M                   1.26
  • 2018 3.1 M                   2.09
  • 2019 4.8 M                   2.17
  • 2020 6.8 M                   2.3

(According to these numbers in 2021, we should have 9.1 M electric automobiles )

https://www.statista.com/statistics/270603/worldwide-number-of-hybrid-and-electric-vehicles-since-2009/

 

% of Electric Vehicles on the road

(as per the latest report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance)

sales of worldwide Electric Vehicles (EV) as % of global passenger vehicles sales:

  • Now        3%
  • By 2025 10%
  • By 2030 28%
  • By 2040 58%

However, in 2040 electrical automobiles will still make up less than 33% of all the cars on the road