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All the more reason to start now -- not taking the next unnecessary trip, biking, carpooling, making a "necessary" trip unecessary, etc.

It's interesting that the countries that are further along with this transition tend not to have much of an automotive industry.

This hyperbole got me thinking, what is the industry size really as share of the world economy?

Germany is often cited as the most heavily automotive leaning economy. WP says the industry employs around 800k people. Germany's total workforce is cited at 44 million.

There's a lot of companies that rely on automotive manufacturing that aren't in the automotive industry.

Some of that workforce would be categorized as being in the industries of manufacturing, engineering services, chemical products, electronics, etc.

In Michigan, for example, there are many hundreds of non-automotive companies who rely on nearby automakers for virtually 100% of their contracts.