Vehicle data sources
Vehicle data by VehiclesDB
The vehicle catalog behind the vehicle filter is built from the open data sources below, used under their licences.
Sources
VehiclesDB
Vehicle data by VehiclesDB (https://vehiclesdb.com), release v2026.10.4, https://github.com/vehiclesdb/vehiclesdb
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) plus the upstream register notices
EPA/DOE fueleconomy.gov
U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, fueleconomy.gov vehicles.csv
Licence: US Government work, public domain (https://www.energy.gov/web-policies); acknowledgement requested
Natural Resources Canada
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada). Source: Natural Resources Canada, Fuel consumption ratings, https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/98f1a129-f628-4ce4-b24d-6f16bf24dd64
Licence: Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0 (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
European Environment Agency (EEA)
European Environment Agency (EEA), Monitoring of CO2 emissions from passenger cars and from vans (Regulation (EU) 2019/631), Discodata [CO2Emission].[latest], https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/; data submitted by the Member States, copyright holder Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG-CLIMA), licensed CC BY 4.0. Changes: aggregated to make, commercial name, year and engine registration counts.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); copyright holder: Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG-CLIMA)
RDW
Bron: RDW, Open Data RDW: Gekentekende_voertuigen (https://opendata.rdw.nl/d/m9d7-ebf2), CC0. Changes: aggregated to make, commercial name and first-registration year counts.
Licence: CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi
Motor Vehicle Register (MVR_Mar26, data edited 2026-10-06), NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, https://opendata-nzta.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/NZTA::motor-vehicle-register-api, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Adapted: aggregated to counts per make, model, year and engine.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
NHTSA vPIC
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, vPIC API (https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/)
Licence: US Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. §105)
Wikidata
Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org), CC0; attribution not required, given as a courtesy
Licence: CC0 1.0 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Licensing)
Cyblogy GCC curation
Hand-curated by Cyblogy (gcc_series.json); the references behind each entry are listed in its sources.
VehiclesDB upstream notices
Reproduced verbatim in English, as the source licences require.
The upstream notices below are UNCONDITIONAL: they discharge the source registers' own license terms (OGL v3, CC-BY, dl-de/by-2-0) and apply to every consumer of this data, under every VehiclesDB license, commercial included.
The VehiclesDB dataset (CC-BY 4.0) is reconciled from the following official sources. Each license's prescribed statement is reproduced verbatim as required (CC-BY 4.0 §3(a); OGL v3; and siblings).
Argentine initial car registrations (DNRPA microdata)
Source: https://datos.jus.gob.ar/dataset/inscripciones-iniciales-de-autos
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Statement: Contains DNRPA vehicle registration data (Ministerio de Justicia, Argentina) from datos.jus.gob.ar, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Australian registered road vehicles by make and model (BITRE Road Vehicles Australia)
Source: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/road-vehicles-australia-january-2025
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Statement: © Commonwealth of Australia 2025. Source: Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE), Road vehicles Australia, January 2025 (data.gov.au), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). VehiclesDB aggregated, normalised and reconciled these counts to its make/model records; this is not endorsed by BITRE or the Commonwealth.
Canadian fuel consumption ratings (Natural Resources Canada)
Source: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/98f1a129-f628-4ce4-b24d-6f16bf24dd64
License: Open Government Licence – Canada
Statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Natural Resources Canada fuel consumption ratings).
Strassenverkehrsamt Kanton Thurgau — Fahrzeugbestand Kanton Thurgau am 01.01.2026
Source: https://data.tg.ch/explore/dataset/djs-stv-7/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Statement: Contains data from the Strassenverkehrsamt Kanton Thurgau — "Fahrzeugbestand Kanton Thurgau am 01.01.2026" (data.tg.ch, dataset djs-stv-7; originally from the Open Data stock of the Swiss Federal Roads Office ASTRA), licensed CC BY 4.0. One canton only; aggregated, presence-only.
German new car registrations by make and model series (KBA FZ10)
Source: https://www.kba.de/DE/Statistik/Produktkatalog/produkte/Fahrzeuge/fz10/fz10_gentab.html
License: Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0
Statement: Datenquelle: Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA), Neuzulassungen von Personenkraftwagen nach Marken und Modellreihen (FZ 10); dl-de/by-2-0. Data reconciled/normalized by VehiclesDB (changes marked per license).
Spanish vehicle registrations (DGT microdata, MATRABA)
License: Spanish public-sector reuse terms (datos.gob.es aviso legal)
Statement: Contains data from the Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) vehicle registration microdata, reused under Spain's public sector information reuse terms (Ley 37/2007; datos.gob.es).
Finnish vehicle register open data (Traficom)
Source: https://tieto.traficom.fi/en/datatraficom/open-data
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Statement: Contains Traficom's open vehicle register data (Finland), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Irish new private car licensing statistics (CSO table TEM20)
Source: https://data.cso.ie/table/TEM20
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Statement: Contains Central Statistics Office (Ireland) data (table TEM20), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (© Government of Ireland).
Israel Ministry of Transport — vehicle register (data.gov.il)
Source: https://data.gov.il/dataset/degem-rechev-wltp
Statement: Israel: aggregate vehicle counts derived from the vehicle register datasets of the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety (משרד התחבורה והבטיחות בדרכים), published on data.gov.il (Israel National Digital Agency). These counts are published as facts, with credit to data.gov.il, under the data.gov.il Terms of Use (https://data.gov.il/he/terms-of-use); they are not relicensed under CC BY 4.0.
Luxembourg vehicle register operations (SNCA)
Source: https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/operations-delta-des-vehicules-au-luxembourg/
License: Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
Statement: Contains public data from the Luxembourg vehicle register (SNCA, CC0).
Malaysian car registration transactions (JPJ via data.gov.my)
Source: https://data.gov.my/data-catalogue/registration_transactions_car
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Statement: Contains JPJ vehicle registration data from data.gov.my (Government of Malaysia), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Dutch vehicle register (RDW Open Data)
Source: https://opendata.rdw.nl/Voertuigen/Open-Data-RDW-Gekentekende_voertuigen/m9d7-ebf2
License: Public Domain (CC0)
Statement: Contains public data from the Dutch vehicle register (CC0).
Statens vegvesen — Periodisk kjøretøykontroll (PKK)
Source: https://dataut.vegvesen.no/dataset/periodisk-kjoretoy-kontroll
License: Creative Commons Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal (CC BY 4.0)
Statement: Contains data from Statens vegvesen — Periodisk kjøretøykontroll, licensed CC BY 4.0. Licence asserted by the publisher's own catalogue record (dataut.vegvesen.no) and mirrored by data.norge.no; the GitHub distribution itself carries no LICENSE file.
New Zealand Motor Vehicle Register (Waka Kotahi NZTA open data)
Source: https://opendata-nzta.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/NZTA::motor-vehicle-register/about
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Statement: Contains data from the New Zealand Motor Vehicle Register (Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Thai new vehicle registrations by brand and model (DLT)
Source: https://gdcatalog.dlt.go.th/dataset/59a045dc-3ec4-4908-b035-ba789101b7f5
License: Open Data Common (Thai government open data)
Statement: Contains Thai Department of Land Transport first-registration statistics (gdcatalog.dlt.go.th), published as government open data ("Open Data Common").
Ukrainian vehicle registration operations (MVS/HSC open data)
Source: https://data.gov.ua/dataset/06779371-308f-42d7-895e-5a39833375f0
License: Creative Commons Attribution
Statement: Contains vehicle registration data from Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs (data.gov.ua), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
UK vehicle licensing statistics (DfT/DVLA table VEH0120)
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-files
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
Statement: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (source: Department for Transport / DVLA, table VEH0120).
US EPA/DOE fuel economy vehicle catalog (fueleconomy.gov)
Source: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/download.shtml
License: US Government public domain (17 USC §105)
Statement: Contains US EPA/DOE fuel economy data (fueleconomy.gov), a US Government work in the public domain; DOE acknowledged as requested.
Modifications: VehiclesDB normalizes, reconciles, and curates the raw records (make/model string normalization, deduplication, taxonomy assignment). Counts are transformed into ranks/deciles. Errors are ours, not the sources'.