Natural gas trucks grow very fast in the past three years. Looking back the market, Chinese manufacturers differ from each other in performance. SHACMAN, however, has been leading the market forward through 7,000 units of sales in 2012 and 11,000 units in 2013. in 2014, the company even sets a sales target of 16,000 units
SHACMAN has been devoting to R&D of key component of natural gas truck—engine as early as the “Ninth Five-Year” period (1995-2000). In recent years, SHACMAN assists users to solve the problem of gas source, develops large-power engines, teams up with reassembly enterprises to promote their oil-to-gas programs, thus its natural gas truck users are largely expanded.
According to Shi Bing, Director of SHACMAN Big Account and team leader of natural gas vehicles, SHACMAN has put into use 59 LNG plants and 9 LNG filling stations. The production of LNG plants all over China reaches 35.15 million cubic meters per day. There are over 1400 filling stations and will be 2400 stations in 2014. Deducting the usage of coaches and buses, suppose each station supplies 100 LNG heavy trucks, the market will have a space for 120,000 units of LNG trucks.
From January to November, there are 24515 units of natural gas heavy trucks sold, 40.24% of which are from SHACMAN. It expects a sales volume of more than 11,000 units in the whole year. It holds absolute advantages in each natural gas truck segment. It leads the second by 3262 units and the third by 6189 units. Based on this, SHACMAN sets up a sales targets of 16,000 units in 2014.
