Do you want to know why we are so often in the file?

Posted on 18-03-2016 at 17:25 by nicolasr – 26 Comments”

That is because we all just heul veul cars in this country.

Just on the widely acclaimed Autoshow of BNR (you know, with the presenter with his beautiful voice, his intonation the whole world to his pipes can make them dance, who by his sharp comments made by each guest, it is feared, and yet always at the end ensures that the interviewee with a happy feeling to go home with the man that ladies let soak their car seat and of course also with our own @wouter) was the pr-man of the Bovag, Tom Huyskens. And that had quite a few nice figures in store for us.

Last January, we were a record. We are then by the 8 million-fueled passenger cars in the Netherlands is gone. So bedrijfsvoorraden and suspended instances are not taken into account. To be precise, 8.013.919 cars. Now there are already about 7.000 pieces have been added, so that files are really not shorter. That means that there are 1 car drives around to each of 2.1 persons. In 1980 it was 1 in the 3.3 people. Hence the extra rows.

Also fun, youth, and cars. You hear more and more that the youth was more cars, and that, therefore, less and less cars are sold. Wrong! 4.7% of all car owners in the Netherlands is under the age of 25. And that was in 2007 exactly, so there is absolutely no decrease.

As the last one, it was about the age of the fleet and it turns out that I, with my three old seem (from 1985, 1995 and 2005) in very good (or great) company. Exactly half of all the cars on our roads is older than 8 years, with a high count probably. And that has two reasons, it is too expensive to buy a new one, and cars are getting better and better. But just an open door to the stairs.

Well, a bonus, because the above example was actually the last that I would write, but of all the cars driving 79% on petrol. The remaining 21% is primarily split among diesel, a little bit of LPG, much less electric cars, and hydrogen is quite hardly to count. Success from labor, to those dirty cars over 14 years, all replaced…

And to the extent that this episode of Digits and Letters, thanks for watching and until next week!