Editing Motor vehicle (section)

===China===
[[File:Chang'an avenue in Beijing.jpg|thumb|The People's Republic of China became the world's largest new car market in 2009.]]

The People's Republic of China had 322 million motor vehicles in use at the end of September 2018, of which, 235 million were passenger cars in 2018, making China the country with largest motor vehicle fleet in the world.<ref name=ChinaInUse2018>{{Cite web| url=http://autonews.gasgoo.com/china_news/70015270.html |title=China car population reaches 235 million units, Ministry of Public Security |work=Gasgoo | date=2018-10-18 |access-date=2019-01-22}} ''The number of passenger cars in use in China totaled 235 million units as of the end of September 2018, of which, 2.21 million units new energy cars''</ref> In 2016, the motor vehicle fleet consisted of 165.6 million cars and 28.4 million trucks and buses.<ref name="USeDataBook36"/> About  13.6&nbsp;million vehicles were sold in 2009, and motor vehicle registrations in 2010 increased to more than 16.8&nbsp;million units, representing nearly half the world's fleet increase in 2010.<ref name=Plunket11/><ref name=Wards11/> Ownership per capita rose from 26.6 vehicles per 1000 people in 2006 to 141.2 in 2016.<ref name="USeDataBook36"/>

The stock of highway-legal [[plug-in electric vehicles in China|plug-in electric or new energy vehicles in China]] totaled 2.21 million units by the end of September 2018, of which, 81% are [[electric vehicle|all-electric vehicles]]. These figures include heavy-duty commercial vehicles such buses and sanitation trucks, which represent about 11% of the total stock.<ref name=China092018/> China is also the world's largest electric bus market, reaching about 385,000 units by the end of 2017.<ref name=ICCT102018>{{cite web| url=https://www.theicct.org/publications/ev-capitals-of-the-world-2018 | title=Electric vehicle capitals: Accelerating the global transition to electric drive | author= Dale Hall, Hongyang Cui, Nic Lutsey |publisher=The International Council on Clean Transportation | date=2018-10-30 | access-date=2018-11-01}} ''Click on "Download File" to get the full report, 15 pp.''</ref><ref name=Outlook2016>{{cite web |url=https://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/Global_EV_Outlook_2016.pdf |title=Global EV Outlook 2016: Beyond one million electric cars |author=[[International Energy Agency]] (IEA), Clean Energy Ministerial, and Electric Vehicles Initiative (EVI) |publisher=IEA Publications |date=May 2016 |access-date=2016-09-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160824165154/https://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/Global_EV_Outlook_2016.pdf |archive-date=2016-08-24 |url-status=dead }} ''See pp. 4–5, and 24–25 and Statistical annex, pp. 34–37''.</ref>

The number of cars and motorcycles in China increased 20 times between 2000 and 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/aug/24/china-cars-green-vehicles|title=China's love affair with the car shuns green vehicles|author=Jonathan Watts|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=2011-08-24|access-date=2011-08-24}}</ref> This explosive growth has allowed China to become the world's largest new car market, overtaking the US in 2009.<ref name=Plunket11/><ref name=BBC>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8451887.stm|title=China car sales 'overtook the US' in 2009|work=[[BBC News]]|date=2010-01-11|access-date=2011-08-19}}</ref> Nevertheless, ownership per capita is 58 vehicles per 1000 people, or a ratio of 1:17.2 vehicles to people, still well below the rate of motorization of [[developed country|developed countries]].<ref name=Wards11/>