The market of new buses went "in the red"

If, according to the results of 8 months of 2022, the market of new buses in Russia managed to keep the growth (+2.9% in compare with January-August 2021), then for 9 months it has shown a decrease (-0.6%). This is reported by the experts of the agency "AUTOSTAT" with reference to the data of JSC "PPK"*. The reason for this is the 30% fall in September. So, in the first autumn month, 660 new buses were purchased in our country (against 948 units in September 2021). Approximately a third of this amount belonged to PAZ brand with 214 sold units.

The second place in the September rating is occupied by another domestic brand - NEFAZ (146 units). Chinese Yutong finishes the top-3 with 100 units. Thus, the share of these brands is 70% of all new buses purchased in September. But in the model rating, NEFAZ-5299 is the leader, the result of which was 146 units. This is followed by two representatives of Pavlovsk Automobile Plant - the PAZ-3204 and PAZ-3205 models (93 and 71 units, respectively). According to the results of September, Yutong ZK6122H9 (70 units) and Volgabus 4298 (56 units) are also got in the TOP-5 in September. The volume of purchases of each of the remaining buses was less than 50 units.

We also note that according to the results of 9 months of 2022, 8879 new buses were purchased in Russia. * JSC "PPK" ("Passport Industrial Consulting") is a joint venture of JSC "Electronic Passport" and LLC "AUTOSTAT".