Bucharest leads the top in Romania for motorization

• Bucharest and Ilfov county lead the top in Romania for motorization, with an average of 640 cars per thousand inhabitants.
• The rest of Romania shows a different reality, with a share of cars per capita between 407 and 447 in the center, west and northwest of the country.
• In 2022, the Netherlands and Sweden were leading the adoption of electric cars.

Bucharest and Ilfov county lead the top in Romania for motorization, with an average of 640 cars per thousand inhabitants. It is a figure comparable to most regions in France, Germany and Italy, according to Eurostat data from 2022. The rest of Romania shows a different reality, with a share of cars per capita between 407 and 447 in the center, west and north-west of the country. In 2022, the Netherlands and Sweden were leading the adoption of electric cars.

What measures do we need to protect ourselves from traffic collisions?

“Our authorities should be interested in reducing the number of accidents. They just don’t care. Education is forgotten and abandoned. There is no training at school, as is done in other countries. Driving school is down, way below 1980s level. We don’t have defensive driving courses. The authorities must be attentive to this subject and intervene the systematization plan. Road safety is totally abandoned”Titi Aur, an expert in defensive leadership, told Aleph News.

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