Car ownership. Private transport that decouples where you live from where you work.
It is a product you buy.
It exists to relieve Get from the dwelling to work and family. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Road network, Automotive manufacturing and Oil. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
Solving that problem created new ones: Driving creates accident and liability risk. Follow those and you find the next generation of products built on top of this one.
It competes with Public transit for the same friction.
18 organisations in this map sell it, 18 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionCar ownership
- FrictionGet from the dwelling to work and family
- Life phaseHousehold formation
- Rooted inScarce time
Relieves
Created these new problems
Second-order frictions. This is where most of the modern economy actually lives.
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tesla | $1.0T | public · TSLA | Model Y, Model 3, Robotaxi |
| Toyota | $250B | public · TM | Corolla, RAV4, Sienna minivan |
| Xiaomi | $150B | public · 1810 | phones, SU7 EV, appliances |
| Tata Group (TCS | $150B | public · TCS | IT services, Jaguar Land Rover, Titan jewellery |
| BYD | $130B | public · 1211 | EVs, batteries, God's Eye driver assistance |
| Carvana | $60B | public · CVNA | online used car sales and financing |
| Mercedes-Benz Group | $60B | public · MBG | Mercedes cars and vans |
| General Motors | $55B | public · GM | Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac |
| Volkswagen Group | $55B | public · VOW3 | VW, Audi, Porsche |
| BMW | $55B | public · BMW | BMW, Mini, Rolls-Royce cars |
| Ford | $45B | public · F | F-150, Explorer, Ford Credit |
| Honda | $45B | public · HMC | Civic, CR-V, Odyssey |
| Hyundai Motor Group | $45B | public · 005380 | Hyundai, Kia, Genesis |
| Maruti Suzuki | $45B | public · MARUTI | entry-level cars |
| Stellantis | $30B | public · STLA | Chrysler Pacifica, Jeep, Ram |
| Li Auto | $25B | public · LI | family EV SUVs |
| Rivian | $15B | public · RIVN | R1 and R2 EVs, Amazon vans |
| CarMax | $8B | public · KMX | used cars, CarMax Auto Finance |