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China Has Nearly 160M Motor Vehicles; 76.09% are Private Cars
3 January 2008
Xinhua. China had 159.8 million motor vehicles by the end of 2007, up 10.02% from 2006, according to China’s Ministry of Public Security. By the end of 2007, China also had 164 million drivers, up 9.17% from 2006.
Automobiles and motorcycles accounted for 90.61 percent of the total motor vehicles. The number of passenger automobiles increased 21.86% and trucks 7.41% compared with 2006 figures.
Private cars rose by 10.92% and made up 76.09% of China’s total motor vehicles (about 122 million vehicles). For comparison, the US had about 232 million light duty vehicles registered in 2005, according to the Department of Energy’s Transportation Energy Data Book.
January 3, 2008 in Brief | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by: Harvey D | January 04, 2008 at 11:15 AM
This is mixing apples and oranges because a large proportion of those 160 million vehicles are motorcycles and buses, not passenger cars. There are fewer than 50 million light duty passenger vehicles in China compared with the 230+ million in the United States.
Posted by: Kelly Gallagher | January 04, 2008 at 03:06 PM
Kelly:
That is not at all what the article said.
Posted by: Harvey D | January 05, 2008 at 02:31 PM
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It is very surprising to note that the private vehicle percentage is higher in China than in USA.
At the current rate, China should have over 300 million motor vehicles by 2015. That would probably put China in first place in that domain.
China may also be the no one vehicle builder by 2020. However, it may become the first electric vehicle (and EV batteries) builder much before that time.