Royalty Revenue Forecast

By 2026 the accumulated royalties should exceed $ 14 billion.

Growth rates are assumed to be rapid, about 50%. Still the world wide user population does not reach the current potential of 245 million until 2023-2024. Of course that could happen sooner, as the growth rate could be greater than 100% in some years. Two CSOs in USA reported near 100% growth in 2003.

Column B : Assumed annual growth rate of Car Share users world wide.
Column C : Year
Column D : Number of CS users , world wide.
Column E : Total number of cars used by CSOs, both conventional and SRC.
Column G : Users again, in millions, world wide.
Column H : Total number of cars used by CSOs again, in thousands.
Column I : Total number of CS cars bought per year , in thousands, both conventional and SRC.
Column J : Percentage of all annual CS fleet sales that are SRC.
Column K : SRCs sold per year in thousands.
Column L : Projected royalty per car. This is in the 1 to 2 % range of the car sale price. It starts at $500 per car and falls to $300 per car when the primary patent expires. Follow on patents will justify the $300 royalty per car.

Column N : Royalties per year in millions. By 2026 this would be $ 4 billion a year.
Column O : Cumulative royalties which reach $ 14.171 billion by 2026.
Column P : Total cumulative number of SRCs sold in millions.
Column Q : Number of full scale automobile plants required, at 60,000 SRC per year per plant.

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