Automotive industry in Germany | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automot... 00:00:58 1 History 00:01:07 1.1 Early history 00:04:20 1.2 Postwar era 00:11:18 1.3 1970s 00:15:36 1.4 1980s and 1990s 00:24:00 1.5 21st century 00:26:58 2 Plants 00:27:10 2.1 Baden-Württemberg 00:27:56 2.2 Bavaria 00:28:29 2.3 Eastern Germany 00:29:02 2.4 Lower Saxony 00:29:31 2.5 North Rhine-Westphalia 00:29:53 2.6 Rest of the country 00:30:10 3 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: increases imagination and understanding improves your listening skills improves your own spoken accent learn while on the move reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services... Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.8818644697169533 Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-C "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." Socrates SUMMARY ======= The automotive industry in Germany is one of the largest employers in the world, with a labor force of over 857,336 (2016) working in the industry. Being home to the modern car, the German automobile industry is regarded as the most competitive and innovative in the world, and has the third highest car production in the world, and fourth highest total motor vehicle production. With an annual output close to six million and a 31.5% share of the European Union (2017), German-designed cars won in the European Car of the Year, the International Car of the Year, the World Car of the Year annual awards the most times among all countries. The Volkswagen Beetle and Porsche 911 took 4th and 5th places in the Car of the Century award.