Automobile Industry

The automobile industry produces trucks, buses, motorcycles and all other gas-powered mechanical devices, as well as innovative hybrid and electrical vehicles. As the automotive industry is the largest mechanical industry in the world, auto and other vehicle manufacturing affects worldwide economics by creating international jobs and billions of dollars in revenue for manufacturers and governments. Businesses throughout the world thrive because of modern transportation, without which, modern industry would cease to exist.

The automobile helped modern industry become what it is today. Transportation benefits of the automobile allow different manufacturing and marketing techniques to broaden their economic horizons, creating earnings for businesses and workers. Mass production and en masse shipment of merchandise would not be possible without modern transportation. The economic and geographical link between manufactured parts and assemblers abroad would weaken considerably and possibly crumble without automotive transportation.

The U.S. automobile industry employs assemblers of automobiles and all those associated with construction, including researchers, designers, developers, engineers, supervisors, makers of automobile parts, automotive salespeople, dealerships, as well as those who repair automobiles and supply fuel. Even individuals who rent, lease, paint or clean automobiles are employed indirectly by the automotive industry.