Automotive Industry 1-22
21 entries in the Automotive Industry compendium.
Automotive industryGlobal industry designing, manufacturing, and selling motor vehicles.Car manufacturingGlobal industry producing motor vehicles since the late 1880s to 1890s.TransportTransport moves people, animals, and goods between locations.BMWGerman multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles.BYD AutoChinese automaker that became the world's largest electric carmaker in 2025.ChryslerOne of the Big Three U.S. automakers, now a Stellantis subsidiary.CitroënFrench automaker known for innovative mass-production technologies.AvtoVAZRussian state-owned automaker known for Lada vehicles.ToyotaJapanese automaker; world's largest vehicle producer.VolkswagenGerman automobile brand revived after WWII.Ford Motor CompanyAmerican automaker that pioneered mass production via assembly lines.FordismSystem of standardized mass production and mass consumption.GAZRussian automaker known for Volga cars and military vehicles.General MotorsAmerican-owned automaker operating in Canada since 1918.HondaHonda Motor Co., Ltd., commonly known as Honda, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate aFiatIt became the largest automobile manufacturer in Italy and for over 20 years was the largeTeslaSerbian-American engineer; also an EV company and SI unit.Mercedes-BenzMercedes-Benz AG, a subsidiary of the Mercedes-Benz Group established in 2019, is based inNissanJapanese automaker, part of Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance since 1999.HyundaiFormer South Korean chaebol restructured into multiple independent groups.VolvoSwedish multinational manufacturer of trucks, buses, and construction equipment.
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