Editing Motor vehicle (section)

===Brazil===
[[File:Historical trend ethanol and flex veh in Brazil 1979 2008.png|thumb|300px|Historical trend of Brazilian production of light-duty vehicles by type of fuel: neat ethanol, [[flexible-fuel vehicle|flex fuel]], and [[gasoline]] from 1979 to 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.virapagina.com.br/anfavea2018/59/#zoom=z |title=Anuário da Indústria Automobilística Brasileira 2018, ANFAVEA |access-date=2018-12-16 |archive-date=2018-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216062941/http://www.virapagina.com.br/anfavea2018/59/#zoom=z |url-status=dead }}</ref>]]

The Brazilian vehicle fleet reached 64.8 million vehicles in 2010, up from 29.5 million units in 2000, representing a 119% growth in ten years, and reaching a motorization rate of 340 vehicles per 1000 people.<ref name=Globo>{{cite web|url=http://g1.globo.com/carros/noticia/2011/02/frota-de-veiculos-cresce-119-em-dez-anos-no-brasil-aponta-denatran.html|title=Frota de veículos cresce 119% em dez anos no Brasil, aponta Denatran|publisher=Globo.com|date=2011-02-13|author=Ardilhes Moreira|access-date=2011-08-23|language=pt}}</ref> In 2010 Brazil experienced the second largest fleet increase in the world after China, with 2.5 million vehicle registrations.<ref name=Wards11/>

{{As of|2018}}, Brazil has the largest alternative fuel vehicle fleet in the world with about 40 million alternative fuel motor vehicles in the road. The clean vehicle stock includes 30.5 million [[Flexible-fuel vehicles in Brazil|flexible-fuel cars and light utility vehicles]] and over 6 million flex-fuel [[motorcycle]]s by March 2018;<ref name=BR30mFlex>{{cite news |url=http://www.automotivebusiness.com.br/inovacao/56/carro-flex-chega-aos-15-anos-com-305-milhoes-de-unidades |title=Carro flex chega aos 15 anos com 30,5 milhões de unidades |language=pt |trans-title=Flex car arrives at 15 with 30.5 million units |first=Mário |last=Curcio |work=Automotive Business |date=2018-03-23 |access-date=2018-12-15 |archive-date=2020-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925154218/http://www.automotivebusiness.com.br/inovacao/56/carro-flex-chega-aos-15-anos-com-305-milhoes-de-unidades |url-status=dead }}</ref> between 2.4 and 3.0 million [[neat ethanol vehicle]]s still in use,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/cop_10/in_session_workshops/mitigation/application/pdf/091204_szwarc_mitigation_abstract.pdf|title=Abstract: Use of Bio-fuels in Brazil|publisher=United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change|author=Alfred Szwarc|access-date=2009-10-24}}</ref><ref name="CEPAL">{{cite web|url=http://www.agrocombustibles.org/conceptos/CepalBiocombustiblesLac2004.pdf|title=Perspectivas de un Programa de Biocombustibles en América Central: Proyecto Uso Sustentable de Hidrocarburos|author=Luiz A. Horta Nogueira|publisher=Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)|date=2004-03-22|access-date=2008-05-09|language=es|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528051443/http://www.agrocombustibles.org/conceptos/CepalBiocombustiblesLac2004.pdf|archive-date=2008-05-28}}</ref> out of 5.7 million ethanol only light-vehicles produced since 1979;<ref name=ANFAVEA2013>{{cite web|url=http://www.virapagina.com.br/anfavea2013/|title=Anúario da Industria Automobilistica Brasileira 2012: Tabela 2.3 Produção por combustível - 1957/2012|author=ANFAVEA|publisher=ANFAVEA - Associação Nacional dos Fabricantes de Veículos Automotores (Brasil)|access-date=2013-11-17|language=pt|archive-date=2013-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206142837/http://www.virapagina.com.br/anfavea2013/|url-status=dead}}'' pp. 60-61''.</ref> and, {{as of|2012|12|lc=y}}, a total of 1.69 million natural gas vehicles.<ref name=IANGV>{{cite web|url=http://www.iangv.org/current-ngv-stats/ |title=Natural Gas Vehicle Statistics: Summary Data 2010 |publisher=International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles |access-date=2011-08-02 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701094951/http://www.iangv.org/current-ngv-stats/ |archive-date=July 1, 2012 }}</ref>

In addition, all the Brazilian gasoline-powered fleet is designed to operate with high ethanol blends, up to 25% [[ethanol fuel]] ([[E25 fuel|E25]]).<ref name="SusEthanol">{{Cite book |author1=Goettemoeller, Jeffrey |author2=Adrian Goettemoeller | title = Sustainable Ethanol: Biofuels, Biorefineries, Cellulosic Biomass, Flex-Fuel Vehicles, and Sustainable Farming for Energy Independence | year = 2007| publisher = Prairie Oak Publishing, Maryville, Missouri |pages=56–61 | isbn = 978-0-9786293-0-4 }}</ref><ref name="Portaria2007">{{cite web|url=http://extranet.agricultura.gov.br/sislegis-consulta/consultarLegislacao.do?operacao=visualizar&id=17886|title=Portaria Nº 143, de 27 de Junho de 2007|publisher=Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento|access-date=2008-10-05|language=pt}} This decree fixed the mandatory blend at 25% starting July 1, 2007</ref><ref name="Lei8723">{{cite web|url=http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil/leis/L8723.htm |title=Lei Nº 8.723, de 28 de Outubro de 1993. Dispõe sobre a redução de emissão de poluentes por veículos automotores e dá outras providências |publisher=Casa Civil da Presidência da República |access-date=2008-10-05 |language=pt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006162053/http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil/leis/L8723.htm |archive-date=2008-10-06 |url-status=dead }} See article 9º and modifications approved by Law Nº 10.696, 2003-07-02 increasing the upper limit to 25%</ref> The [[market share]] of flex fuel vehicles reached 88.6% of all light-duty vehicles registered in 2017.<ref name=BR30mFlex/>