Editing Motor vehicle (section)

===United States===
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! colspan="6" align=center style="background-color: #ccffcc;" | Historical evolution of<br> vehicle ownership rates in the U.S.<br />  (Selected years 1900–2016)<ref name=USeDataBook36/>
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! style="background-color: #ccffcc;" | Year  || style="background-color: #ccffcc;" | <small>Veh. per<br>1000 people</small>||style="background-color: #ccffcc;" | Year || style="background-color: #ccffcc;" | <small>Veh. per<br>1000 people</small>||style="background-color: #ccffcc;" | Year || style="background-color: #ccffcc;" |<small>Veh. per<br>1000 people</small>
|-align=center
|1900||0.11||1940 || 245.63|| 1990 || 773.4
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|1905|| 0.94||1945 ||221.80 || 2000||800.3
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|1910|| 5.07||1950 ||323.71 || 2005 || 837.3
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|1920|| 86.78 || 1960||410.37 || 2010 || 808.4
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|1930|| 217.34 || 1970 || 545.35|| 2015 || 821.5
|-align=center
|1935 || 208.6 ||1980||710.71 || 2016 ||831.9
|}

The United States has the second-largest fleet of motor vehicles in the world after China. {{As of|2016}}, had a motor vehicles stock of 259.14 million, of which, 246 million were light duty vehicles, consisting of 112.96 million passenger cars and 133 million light trucks (includes [[SUV]]s). A total of 11.5 million heavy trucks were registered at the end 2016<ref name="USeDataBook36">{{Cite web|url= https://cta.ornl.gov/data/tedbfiles/Edition36_Full_Doc.pdf |title=Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 36.2|author1=Stacy C. Davis |author2=Susan E. Williams |author3=Robert G. Boundy  |name-list-style=amp |publisher=[[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]]|date=August 2018|access-date=2018-12-15}} ''See Quick Facts and Tables 3.4 through 3.11''</ref> Vehicle ownership [[per capita]] in the U.S. is also the highest in the world, the [[United States Department of Energy|U.S. Department of Energy]] (USDoE) reports a motorization rate of 831.9 vehicles in operation per 1000 people in 2016, or a ratio of 1:1.2 vehicles to people.<ref name="USeDataBook36"/>

According to USDoE, the rate of motorization peaked in 2007 at 844.5 vehicles per 1,000 people.<ref name="USeDataBook36"/> In terms of [[driver's license|licensed drivers]], as of 2009 the country had 1.0 vehicle for every licensed driver, and 1.87 vehicles per household.<ref name=USeDataBook3>{{Cite book| last = Davis| title = op. cit| year = 2011| pages = 8–6|display-authors=etal}} See Table 8.5</ref>  Passenger car registrations in the United States declined -11.5% in 2017 and -12.8% in 2018.<ref name=OECDCarRegData>{{Cite web | url=https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/passenger-car-registrations-percentage-change-over-previous-period_ee3437e3-en#.XKIsVutKjy0 | title=OECD Passenger car registrations | work=Key short-term indicators, Main Economic Indicators | publisher=OECD | access-date=2019-04-01 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

{{Asof|2016}}, the stock of [[alternative fuel vehicle]]s in the United States included over 20 million [[flexible-fuel vehicles in the United States|flex-fuel cars and light trucks]], the world's second-largest [[flexible-fuel vehicle|flexible-fuel]] fleet in the world after [[flexible-fuel vehicles in Brazil|Brazil]].<ref name=US20mFlex>{{cite web|url=https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/flexible_fuel.html |title=Alternative Fuels Data Center: Flexible Fuel Vehicles |work=Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center |publisher=U.S. Department of Energy| access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref> However, actual use of [[ethanol fuel]] is significantly limited due to the lack of [[E85]] refueling infrastructure.<ref name=EERE08>{{Cite web |url=http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/vehicles/flexible_fuel.html| title=Alternative and Advanced Vehicles: Flexible Fuel Vehicles | author=National Renewable Energy Laboratory [[United States Department of Energy|USDoE]] | publisher=Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center | date=2007-09-17 |access-date=2008-08-19}}</ref>

Regarding the [[electric vehicle|electrified segment]], the fleet of [[hybrid electric vehicles in the United States]] is the second largest in the world after Japan, with more than four million units sold through April 2016.<ref name=US4mi>{{cite news | url=http://www.hybridcars.com/americans-buy-their-four-millionth-hybrid-car/ | title=Americans Buy Their Four-Millionth Hybrid Car | first=Jeff |last=Cobb| work=HybridCars.com| date=2016-06-06 | access-date=2016-06-06}}</ref> Since the introduction of the [[Tesla Roadster (2008)|Tesla Roadster]] [[electric car]] in 2008, cumulative sales of highway legal [[plug-in electric vehicles in the United States]] passed one million units in September 2018.<ref name=1millionUS>{{cite web|url=https://insideevs.com/1-million-electric-cars-sold-us/ |title=Plug-In Electric Cars Sales In U.S. Surpass 1 Million | first=Mark | last=Kane | publisher=InsideEVs.com| date=2018-10-06| access-date=2018-10-21}}</ref><ref name=1miUS2010>{{cite web| url=https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1057-november-26-2018-one-million-plug-vehicles-have-been-sold-united | title=FOTW #1057, November 26, 2018: One Million Plug-in Vehicles Have Been Sold in the United States | author=[[Argonne National Laboratory]] |publisher=Vehicle Technologies Office, USDoE | date=2018-11-26 | access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref> The U.S. stock of [[plug-in vehicle]]s is the second largest after [[plug-in electric vehicles in China|China]] (2.21 million by September 2018).<ref name=China092018>{{cite web | url=http://www.autonewschina.com/en/article.asp?id=18237 | title=China's electrified vehicle fleet tops 2.21 million |author=Automotive News China |publisher=Automotive News China | date=2018-10-19 |access-date=2018-10-21|quote=China’s fleet of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids topped 2.21 million by the end of September as sales of electrified vehicles continued to surge in the country. Of the total, EVs accounted for 1.78 million, or nearly 81 percent. The rest were plug-in hybrids, China’s Ministry of Public Security said this week. Electrified cargo vehicles — which include trucks, pickups and delivery vans — approached 254,000, representing 11 percent of the electrified vehicle fleet as of last month.}}</ref>

{{As of|2017}}, the country's fleet also includes more than 160,000 [[natural gas vehicle]]s, mainly transit buses and delivery fleets.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/natural_gas.html |title=Alternative Fuels Data Center: Natural Gas Vehicles |work=Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center |publisher=U.S. Department of Energy| access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref> Despite its relative small size, natural gas use accounted for about 52% of all alternative fuels consumed by alternative transportation fuel vehicles in the U.S. in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/08/eiaaltf-20110811.html |title=EIA: consumption of alternative transportation fuels held steady in 2009|publisher=Green Car Congress |date=2011-08-11|access-date=2011-08-24}}</ref>