Facts about the German automotive industry
- Both passenger cars and commercial vehicles were invented in Germany.
- A total of 600 manufacturers and suppliers of the German automotive industry are focusing on this inventiveness for the future.
- Employees: about 715,000 overall.
- Investment of manufacturers and suppliers in research and development (R&D): nearly 20 million euros => a third of all German research.
- More than each forth in research and development in Germany works in the automotive industry.
- Trainees: approximately 40,000 annually.
- Every seventh university graduate in Germany begins a career in the German automotive industry.
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First publication: 18.07.2008
Last modified: 16.05.2012
