The World’s Automotive Industry - Key Figures
The Auto Industry and the Environment
The industry is committed to contributing to an integrated approach, with other stakeholders, to a cleaner environment and reduced carbon emissions. Automakers are constantly developing more efficient engines and drive-trains to reduce fuel consumption, and a wide range of sophisticated emissions-control technology is putting cleaner automobiles on the road everywhere. With more and more new vehicles with modern exhaust emissions performance on the road, clear improvements in air quality can be seen. This trend will continue, even without further improvements to new vehicles, as older, more polluting cars are replaced with new ones.
Automotive Industry Production
Production 2005 Cars Commercial Vehicles Total % change 2004
The Auto Industry and Road Safety
Road transport emissions in the EU – Index, 1995 = 100
120 100 80 60 40 20
Source: Auto Oil II Transport Base Case August 1999 SO2 PM Diesel VOC NO X CO Benzene
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Automakers have invested hugely in reaching these air quality improvements and in developing diverse automobiles that run on alternative fuels including those from sustainable sources or that use hybrid technology using both gasoline or diesel engines and electric power. Because consumers, as well as different regions of the world, favour different technologies, automakers are developing a range of automobiles that run on different fuels.
Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada China Czech Rep. Egypt Finland France Germany Hungary India Indonesia Iran Italy Japan Malaysia Mexico Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Taiwan Thailand Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United States Uzbekistan Other countries
Grand total
182,761 316,414 230,505 895,788 2,009,494 1,356,198 3,078,153 599,472 48,034 21,233 3,112,961 5,350,187 148,533 1,264,000 233,492 725,000 725,528
The industry is committed to contributing to an integrated approach, with other stakeholders, to a cleaner environment and reduced carbon emissions. Automakers are constantly developing more efficient engines and drive-trains to reduce fuel consumption, and a wide range of sophisticated emissions-control technology is putting cleaner automobiles on the road everywhere. With more and more new vehicles with modern exhaust emissions performance on the road, clear improvements in air quality can be seen. This trend will continue, even without further improvements to new vehicles, as older, more polluting cars are replaced with new ones.
Automotive Industry Production
Production 2005 Cars Commercial Vehicles Total % change 2004
The Auto Industry and Road Safety
Road transport emissions in the EU – Index, 1995 = 100
120 100 80 60 40 20
Source: Auto Oil II Transport Base Case August 1999 SO2 PM Diesel VOC NO X CO Benzene
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Automakers have invested hugely in reaching these air quality improvements and in developing diverse automobiles that run on alternative fuels including those from sustainable sources or that use hybrid technology using both gasoline or diesel engines and electric power. Because consumers, as well as different regions of the world, favour different technologies, automakers are developing a range of automobiles that run on different fuels.
Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada China Czech Rep. Egypt Finland France Germany Hungary India Indonesia Iran Italy Japan Malaysia Mexico Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Taiwan Thailand Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United States Uzbekistan Other countries
Grand total
182,761 316,414 230,505 895,788 2,009,494 1,356,198 3,078,153 599,472 48,034 21,233 3,112,961 5,350,187 148,533 1,264,000 233,492 725,000 725,528