As the largest segment of the bus market, the light bus market has a huge impact on the trend of the entire bus market. In the first 8 months of 2021, the continuous increase of the light passenger market made the bus market achieve "8 consecutive increases", although it suffered consecutive declines in September and December, it still successfully exceeded the sales volume of 2020 after November, and finally sold 67,000 more vehicles than the whole year of 2020, and the cumulative increase of 19% also made the light passenger market the only segment of the bus market to achieve growth in 2021. Entering 2022, how will the light passenger market perform?
The first commercial vehicle network recently learned that according to the data of the China Automobile Association (the caliber of the number of invoices issued by enterprises, the caliber of non-terminal sales, the same below), in January 2022, the mainland bus market (including chassis) sold 30,500 units, down 43% month-on-month and 16% year-on-year, failing to harvest the opening. Among them, the light bus market sales of 25,100 units, down 18% year-on-year, in January, the sales volume of 25,100 light buses in the entire bus market reached 82.41%, an increase of more than 10 percentage points over the previous month (in December 2021, light buses accounted for 72.04% of the bus market).
Looking at the sales volume and growth trend of light buses in January in the past five years, it can be seen that the light bus market in January in the past five years has come out of a trend of increasing-falling-falling-increasing-decreasing, and the sales volume of 25,100 light passenger vehicles in January 2022 has been at a medium level in the past five years, about 5,400 vehicles less than the five-year highest point in January 2021, but also about 4,300 more than january 2020, which is the lowest in five years.
January 2022 light bus market sales table (unit: unit)
As can be seen in the above table, the light bus market in January fell by 18% year-on-year, specific to the top ten companies in January to see 2 increases and 8 drops, to achieve growth is Chongqing Changan and SAIC Maxus, January sales increased by 65% and 13% year-on-year, respectively; 7 declining companies fell by double digits, many companies fell more than 18% of the light passenger market as a whole, the most serious decline in January sales fell by 54% year-on-year, Dongfeng Company, Xiamen Golden Dragon fell lower than the overall decline in the light passenger market, outperforming the "market".
From the perspective of market share, the total share of the top ten companies in January reached 96.6%, and the total share of the top five companies exceeded 80%, reaching 80.85%. In January 2022, Chongqing Changan won the first place in the monthly sales list of the light passenger market with sales of 6406 vehicles, with a share of 25.5%; SAIC Maxus ranked second with a monthly share of 5273 vehicles and 20.99%; Jiangling Motors and Nanjing Iveco had a share of 14.65% and 11.55% of the light passenger market in January, ranking 3rd and 4th respectively.
In January, the light passenger market started with 25,100 vehicles, down 18% year-on-year, although it failed to gain a good start, but it was not bad in the past year, it was a regular performance of the beginning, and the 2022 young customer market was still worth looking forward to.