Interesting car facts
1)1 in 4 cars on the UK’s roads were made in China.
2)The world’s first speeding ticket was issued in 1902.
3)A modern Formula 1 car can drive upside down in a tunnel at
120mph.
4)60 million cars are produced every year.
5)1 billion cars are currently in use around the world.
6)The average British driver will spend around 99 days of their life
stuck in traffic.
7)It would take less than a month to get to the moon by car.
8)The average car contains over 30,000 unique parts.
9)75% of all cars produced by Rolls Royce are still on the road.
10)Volkswagen owns twelve well-known car brands from 7 European
countries.
11)The first-ever car accident occurred in 1891.
12)The largest speeding fine ever produced was €1,000,000.
13)The world record for removing and replacing a car engine is 42
seconds.
14)The odds of dying in a car accident are around 1 in 5,000.
15)The man who invented cruise control was blind.
16)The highest total mileage clocked by a single car is 2,850,000 million
miles.
17)The Hennessey Venom GT is the world’s fastest production car.
18)In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50
minutes.
19)About 165,000 cars are produced every day.
20)The average car has 30,000 parts.
Amazing car facts
1) out of every 4 cars produced in the world come from China.
2)Honking your car horn, except in an emergency, is illegal in NYC.
3)Red cars are prohibited in Shanghai China.
4)In 1900, 40% of American cars were powered by steam,38% by electricity,
and 22% by gasoline.
5)The least safe colors are black, brown, and green.
6)92% of all newly sold cars in Brazil use ethanol as fuel which is
produced from sugar cane.
7)The average fuel cost across all vehicles is 14.45 cents per mile or
about 23 miles per gallon.
8)Although 1886 is credited with being the birth year of the modern
automobile, the first gas gauge wasn’t installed until 1922.
9)The average consumer spends $400 a year on diagnostics, scheduled
maintenance, and tune-ups.
10)The U.S. consumes about half of the world’s gasoline.
11)White is the most popular car color.
12)The first windshield wipers were hand-operated.
13)The average American will spend two weeks of his or her life stopped at
red lights.
14)It takes half an ounce of gas to start a car.
15)In Christopher Nolan’s film Batman, Bruce Wayne drives a Lamborghini Murcielago. In Spanish, Murcielago
means, “bat.”
16)Holding a remote car key to your head doubles its range because the human
skull acts as an amplifier.
17)Sir Alec Guinness warned James Dean one week before he died not to get
into his new Porsche 550 Spyder or “You’ll be dead in it by this time next
week.
18)The BMW logo derives from the company’s origin as an airplane
manufacturer. The now-iconic blue and white “target sign” represents a
spinning white propeller against a blue sky.
19)A single car has about 30,000 parts. About 80% of a car is
recyclable.
20)Approximately 75% of the cars that Rolls Royce has produced in its
history are still on the road.
Electric car facts
1)Electric cars aren’t a new concept
2)Tesla has introduced a new feature to keep pets cool
3)The first electric car was invented nearly 200 years ago!
4)At $26,740, the Smart EQ Fortwo is the cheapest electric car on the
market right now.
5)With more than 300,000 sales worldwide, Tesla Model 3 was the world’s
top-selling electric car in 2019.
6)Electric vehicle sales by year dropped 4% in 2019 compared to 2018.
7)There were 1.94 million electric car sales worldwide in 2019.
8)In terms of European electric cars, statistics show that the BMW 530e/Le
(with over 46K sold) and the Renault Zoe (nearly 42K) was the most popular
EV models in 2019.
9)Nearly 330,000 electric cars were sold across the US in 2019.
10)With nearly 90,000 annual sales by October 2019, Germany has overtaken
Norway as the largest electric car market in Europe.
11)319,000 electric vehicles were sold in the EU during 2019.
12)By 2019, there were around 5.2 million electric car battery charging
stations worldwide.
13)Electric car accident statistics show an interesting trend – luxury and
SUV electrics cause 40% more accidents than their gas counterparts.
14)China’s electric vehicle market share grew to 4.7% in 2019.
15)Around 80% of the energy consumed by electric cars comes from
China.
16)The latest EVs under $50K has a 480km range.
17)Almost 2,300 battery and hybrid EVs were sold in Australia in 2017, a 67%
increase from 2016.
18)Australia could eliminate 6% of our total greenhouse gas emissions if
everyone drove a Battery EV (BEV) charged with renewable energy.
19)There are almost 450 charging locations across Australia and many more
are being built.
20)The average Australian drives 38 km per
day.
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