Motorization

The engine is the process of increasing use of engine power . Motorization follows industrialization within the framework and scope and is now largely complete in the industrialized countries .

All drive processes that were previously carried out by human, animal or natural forces can now be carried out by a motor, for example when transporting people or goods or when driving in companies. An external source of energy is required for this.

Colloquially, motorization is used synonymously with the performance of a vehicle's engine.

In the military sector, an army's degree of motorization is an indicator of its combat strength . A comparison is made of how many army troops can be loaded while all vehicles are in operation. The army of the United States has the highest degree of motorization in this sense , it is fully motorized .

literature

• Christoph Maria Merki : The bumpy triumph of the automobile, 1895-1930. On the history of the motorization of road traffic in France, Germany and Switzerland . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2002. ISBN 3-205-99479-5 (history of automobilism and its effects on road traffic).
• The 1950s - traffic and motorization
• Christoph Maria Merki: Motorization. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .