Sales Analysis of CNG Bus Market in Jan. - June 2012 Ⅰ

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According to the industry statistics from www.chinabuses.com, in Jan. - June 2012, the market share of the new energy buses (including hybrid buses, pure electric buses etc,) decrease by 18.9 percent. But the CNG bus market is different from the other markets, which increase by 34.4 percent. In Jan. - June. 2012, the natural gas buses especially the CNG buses have received more and more attention from the public. China has been developing CNG buses for years and there are large number of CNG buses driving in the road.

Part One: Analysis of Above 5 meters CNG Buses’Sales Volume in Jan. - June 2012

　　
According to the industry statistics from www.chinabuses.com, in Jan. - June 2012, the sales of the above 5-meter CNG buses were 3,813 units, which were 976 units more than that of in 2011 ( 2,837 units). The sales growth rate of the CNG buses in Jan. -June 2012 was 34.4%, which is much higher than the growth rate of the overall bus market sales. CNG buses' sales is one of the important factors which contributes to the bus market sales in Jan. - June 2012.

Among the total bus sales volume data, the sales volume of the large, medium and small buses respectively were 1,344 units, 1,734 units and 735 units. But the large, medium and small CNG buses respectively accounted for 35.1%, 45.5% and 19.27% of the total bus sales volume.

Table One: Statistic of above 5-meter CNG Buses’ sales volume in Jan. - June 2012 & 2011 

 
From above data, it is seen that In Jan. - June 2012, the sales growth of the medium CNG buses is the biggest one. The second one is the light CNG buses. The last one is the large CNG buses. Therefore, the sales of the medium CNG buses is the main factor which contributes to the CNG bus' sales volume growing in the first six months of 2012.

 
Part Two: Analysis of Mainstream China Bus Builders' CNG Buses’ Market Shares in Jan. - June 2012

Table Two: Statistics of China mainstream bus builders' CNG buses’ sales volume in Jan. - June 2012  
  

1.In Jan. - June 2012, Yutong Bus accounts for the biggest market share in the CNG bus market. The year-on-year growth rate in the first six months was 10.05%, which shows its strong place in the CNG bus market.
　　

2. The total market share of the top eleven mainstream bus builders in the CNG bus market was 90.68%, which increased by 0.29% compared to the first six months of 2011. It shows that the mainstream bus builders' monopolizing the CNG bus market become obviously.

3.Among the top eleven mainstream bus builders, six of bus builders' market shares were up, and the other five of bus builders' market shares were down.
 

4.In the sales of the CNG bus market, the top five mainstream bus builders are almost in southwest area of China while Yutong Bus is in the central area of China. Most of the bus builders are in Sichuan areas, as the natural gas resource in Sichuan is rich. The bus builders there can make use of this advantage, so Sichuan Province attracts the bus builders to come there to manufacturer natural gas buses.