China Bus Market Analysis in 2012
16 January 2013
www.chinabuses.org: China bus markets don't give us many surprises in 2012, sales of coaches were infected by safety concerns, and city buses and overseas sales are just normal, although sales of school buses, natural gas buses and new energy buses are increaing robustly, these are not mainstream markets. 255,027 buses and coaches were sold in China, up 5.35%, and 219,857 of which are five-meter above buses, up 5.17%.
We can call 2012 as the Year One for school buses, and 25,695 school buses were sold by 31 bus builders in 2012, taking 11.69% markets shares of five-meter above buses sales. The major changes cannot be seen for decades.
Sales of Yutong, Changan and Zhongtong took the first three on sales of school buses in 2012, taking 50.52% market percent. 2,732 Changan school buses and 2,410 Zhongtong school buses were sold, taking 10.60% and 9.38%.
And Dongfeng Xiangfan, Dongfeng Bus, Higer, Shuchi Bus, Dongfeng Special Auto, Ankai and Shaolin Bus sold 1,000-2,000 school buses.
Natural has city buses are increasing in 2012.
33,527 natural gas city buses were sold in 2012, up 77.98%. 31 of the total 50 bus builders are producing natural gas buses, and there were even 9,050 natural gas coaches in 2012, taking 26.99% of sales of all natural has buses.
6,313 Yutong natural gas buses were sold, taking 18.83%, followed by Zhongtong, Chengdu Bus, Higer, Hengtong, Golden Dragon.
Sales of new energy buses are robust.
Source : www.chinabuses.org
Editor : Eric
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