It's time for the heavy-duty truck market to announce its results again. After experiencing the ups and downs of the first quarter, the major mainstream auto companies have achieved remarkable results in the second quarter. Then, in the July opening of the third quarter, what changes did it experience?
01 July sales are gratifying, a new high year-on-year
Looking back on the sales volume of heavy trucks in the previous few months, it is not difficult to find that starting from April this year, the heavy truck market has refreshed the monthly sales record for four consecutive months. This kind of continuous monthly growth is also in the development history of the global heavy truck industry. unprecedented.
Data show that in July, the sales of various models in my country's heavy truck market totaled more than 140,000, a 16% drop from the previous month and an increase of 89% year-on-year. This also means that the average monthly increase in heavy truck sales from April to July reached about 70%. The sales of 140,000 vehicles in July is more than 50,000 more than the historical record of 90,200 vehicles in July 2017.
02The market is picking up quickly and sales are growing rapidly
This year's heavy truck market was a sensation for the entire automotive industry. In January, it increased by 18.2% year-on-year. After experiencing market Waterloo in February and March, it quickly recovered in April and refreshed the global heavy truck sales with 191,000 vehicles. Monthly sales record, an increase of 61% year-on-year; May sales of 179,000 units, an increase of 66% year-on-year; June reached 169,000 vehicles, a sharp increase of 63.3% year-on-year, setting a new record for the month; and the heavy truck market in July did not let us Disappointed, the sales volume reached 140,000. Although the sales volume declined compared with the previous month, it continued to increase significantly year-on-year, reaching 89%.
From January to July this year, the cumulative sales of the heavy truck market was about 959,200, and the cumulative year-on-year increase expanded from 24.36% to 31%, with a net increase of over 220,000. After the ups and downs in the first quarter, the heavy truck market in the second quarter set a new sales record for the season in one fell swoop, which has a positive effect on boosting confidence for the entire heavy truck industry. As the beginning of the third quarter in July, sales have been very impressive, and the following August and September will be even more worth looking forward to.
03 Reasons for the rapid growth of the market
The reason why sales in July will continue to rise, setting new records again, are all related to favorable factors in the market.
The first is the impact of national policies. The elimination of the National III diesel trucks kicked off ahead of schedule, and the policy was unprecedentedly strong, which accelerated the pace of the heavy truck market upgrade;
Secondly, after experiencing market depression in the first quarter, market demand was released in the second quarter, orders from various regions picked up, and market demand increased rapidly;
The third is the increasingly strict national regulations on overhauling, and the overhauling of short- and medium-distance branch lines on national roads and rural roads has become stricter. Legally compliant, standard load, and lightweight heavy trucks have become urgently needed in the market;
Finally, affected by the epidemic, construction vehicles moved later in the peak season. With the easing of the domestic epidemic, infrastructure projects in various regions have started one after another, and the resulting demand peak season is also shifting later, and it is likely to reach a peak in the third quarter.
On the whole, the sales volume of the heavy-duty truck market in July is still very gratifying. The sales data of major automobile companies have not yet been announced, but according to the overall trend, they should all be steadily increasing. In the following August, heavy-duty trucks What kind of answers the market will hand over, let us wait and see.
