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2023-11-28T07:12:09Z

‎2018-19: decline in sales

Jyoti at 08:07, 8 August 2023

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Jyoti: /* MOTORCYCLES */

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‎MOTORCYCLES

Jyoti: /* Manufacturing hubs (in the states) */

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‎Manufacturing hubs (in the states)

Jyoti: /* 2018-19: decline in sales */

2020-11-19T14:48:26Z

‎2018-19: decline in sales

Jyoti: /* 2018: ownership in the metros */

2019-04-09T15:35:41Z

‎2018: ownership in the metros

Jyoti at 04:04, 16 February 2019

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Jyoti: /* 2016>18: High-end bike sales slow down */

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‎2016>18: High-end bike sales slow down

Pdewan: /* Honda Motorcycles & Scooters */

2019-02-14T20:11:45Z

‎Honda Motorcycles & Scooters

Pdewan: /* Sales */

2019-02-14T20:10:37Z

‎Sales

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 “In the bigger metros, shared mobility is also pinching demand. Many of the younger people are in no hurry to buy a car, and are happy with Olas and Ubers. They are least interested in buying a car, even though aspirations are intact,” Jnaneswar Sen, former sales and marketing chief at Honda Cars India, said.
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	=MOTORCYCLES=		=MOTORCYCLES=
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		+	==As in 2020==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F02%2F08&entity=Ar00403&sk=F42E9F1E&mode=text Atul Thakur & Pankaj Doval, Desi startups ride on China for ‘Make-in-India’ e-bikes, February 8, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Small Cos Have Sprung Up Across Country Producing Quick-Fix Green Rides
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		+	The last thing you would associate with electric mobility and green two-wheelers would be a company called Jitendra EV, a small-time establishment based out of Maharashtra. And if that’s not surprising enough, there are other similar ones with not-soimpressive names. By way of example there is Kabira Mobility, which is a e-bike seller that assembles its rides in Dharwad, Karnataka as also M2Go, a company headquartered in the Punjabi Bagh locality in Delhi.
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		+	These companies are part of a large group of start-ups — and their numbers are growing by the day — that have sprang up across the country over the last couple of years looking to tap into the growing push towards electric mobility in what are the tech’s early days in India.
		+	The gameplan is simple: source batteries, controllers, and body parts and stitch them all together (many of the companies proudly call it ‘local manufacturing’ though it’s not much more than just cosmetic, small-time assembly), before selling it under the ‘Make in India’ tag.
		+	The sourcing is done mostly from China (and now even from India) and is akin to what happened in the early days of the mobile phone industry in India. People (some from non-related fields) bought the some times nearly completed parts from China, assembled them here at small establishments, and Hyderabad-based Everve Motors is owned by Reddy Customs, who are high-end car modifiers. Gurugrambased Evolet India is a company run by defence veterans while Coimbatore-based Emote electric is run by young engineers.
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		+	Emote is showcasing its more sophisticated modelprototype that has gears and can go from 0-60 kms in less than 4 seconds.
		+	Most of these companies have 50 or fewer employees and sales volumes of less than 5,000 bikes annually.
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		+	M2Go is a start-up conceptualised by some students of a private university in Delhi who came together for a project. One of the promoters of the university liked the idea and decided to invest through seed funding.
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		+	then passed them off as local products under their own brand names.
		+	While the trick worked for some years, it was not sustainable in the long run without proper R&D for such sellers, who also often lacked proper corporate structure and/or long-term plans. Today, Chinese phone companies rule the roost and have over 75% share of the smartphone market, while many of the Indian ones have perished.
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		+	Ask Jitendra Shah, owner of Jitendra EV (who are traditionally auto dealers), on why he decided to have the company under his own name. Pat comes the reply, “If it’s my name that is being used, how can I compromise on quality then.” Amusing but certainly plausible enough logic for him to go for the name.
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		+	Kabira Mobility’s scooters and a ‘high-speed’ sports bike will begin commercial sales from March this year and Jaibir Singh, the project head, says the project was completed in the last two years or so.
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		+	Many of the products, which cost between Rs 45,000 to Rs 1.1 lakh, offer a mobility range of 60 km to 100 km (under different driving conditions) with a charge time of around 4 hours. Some of them also offer the convenience of portable batteries, weighing about 12 kg, that can even be carried home.
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		+	Experts believe that unlike traditional petrol automobile products that need high-tech engineering for designing engines and transmission systems, the heart of e-bike technology is its battery and motor, which is mostly imported from China. The rest of the components are either locally manufactured or are imported as kits to be assembled and sold in the Indian market.
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		+	And, while small startups are trying to find their feet in the e-bike segment, the bigger ones such as Bajaj Auto, TVS, Hero Moto-Corp and Honda 2wheelers are yet to show any serious intent with the last two not having launched any EV products yet.
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	''Two-wheelers per 100 passengers, state-wise- 2015-18''		''Two-wheelers per 100 passengers, state-wise- 2015-18''
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		+	=MOPEDS=
		+	=Sales=
		+	==2019, 2020==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F12%2F15&entity=Ar01710&sk=C4A15F00&mode=text Nandini Sengupta, December 15, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	[[File: Moped Sales in India, 2019, 2020.jpg\| Moped Sales in India, 2019, 2020 <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F12%2F15&entity=Ar01710&sk=C4A15F00&mode=text Nandini Sengupta, December 15, 2020: ''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	For the first time in the moped segment, sales turned positive in July-September after falling for four quarters. Additionally, sales in October and November indicate that rural consumption is picking up, pushing moped sales. And the segment is a single-product, single-company market — commanded by TVS Motor.
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		+	Sales crashed from July-September 2019 up until April-June 2020, before the prop-up came in the second quarter of this fiscal. TVS has done well with the moped, selling over 4 lakh units of the XL100 in the April-November period so far, despite a washout first quarter. And yet, when contacted, none its competitors said there were any plans of cracking this segment.
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		+	“Traditionally, mopeds have their own market in the southern part of the country, supported significantly by the fact that states like Andhra Pradesh and Telangana give subsidy to small farmers and fishermen to buy a moped,” said rating agency Icra VP Shamsher Dewan. The reason why there has not been that much interest so far in mopeds is because the value of the market is not very big and mopeds have, for the longest time, languished at the bottom of the sales chart.
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		+	A TVS Motor spokesman did not want to comment on the moped sales.
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		+	Demand for mopeds comes from villages and small towns, where it doubles up as a rural activity vehicle priced under Rs 45,000. The reason why mopeds are suddenly back in business, said Crisil Research director Hetal Gandhi, “is because after BS6 (emission norms), the price of mopeds have increased by around 10% — lower than the average hike in other twowheeler segments”.
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		+	What has also helped the spurt is the reverse migration due to the pandemic. “Workers who have moved back to their hometowns owing to Covid-19 have been using their remittance incomes to purchase vehicles like mopeds for transportation and business sustenance needs,” said Gandhi.
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 “In the bigger metros, shared mobility is also pinching demand. Many of the younger people are in no hurry to buy a car, and are happy with Olas and Ubers. They are least interested in buying a car, even though aspirations are intact,” Jnaneswar Sen, former sales and marketing chief at Honda Cars India, said.
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		+	==2018-19: decline in sales==
		+	[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/sales-of-scooters-slip-for-first-time-in-13-years-pv-segment-see-slowest-pace-in-5-years/articleshow/68787212.cms Pankaj Doval, April 9, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	[[File: Scooter sales growth, 2006-2019.jpg\|Scooter sales growth, 2006-2019 <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/sales-of-scooters-slip-for-first-time-in-13-years-pv-segment-see-slowest-pace-in-5-years/articleshow/68787212.cms Pankaj Doval, April 9, 2019: ''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	Pressure on the jobs front and the growing pain in rural and semi-urban India has started to tell on the auto industry. Sales of scooters have slipped into the red for the first time in 13 years and the passenger vehicles segment —that includes cars and SUVs — has grown at the slowest pace in the last five years.
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		+	Scooters, that account for nearly one-third of total two-wheelers sold in the country, recorded sales of 67 lakh units in 2018-19, down 0.27% from 67.2 lakh units in the previous year. The last time that the category — which has been credited with single-handedly adding weight and buoyancy to the two-wheeler segment over the past few years — had fallen was in fiscal 2005-06 where it de-grew by 1.5%.
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		+	And while the motorcycle segment was able to duck the trend with a sales growth of nearly 8% for the full fiscal, the pain is visible here too.
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		+	''' ‘Job scenario impacting PV sales’ '''
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		+	Sales of motorcycles have been struggling over the last few months and have been in the negative territory since January this year. Companies such as Hero Moto, Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI), and TVS have cut production and also dealer dispatches as they fall in line with the new reality.
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		+	Industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) came out with a conservative, rather grim, outlook for the new fiscal. On a 2.7% growth in passenger vehicles in 2018-19, it predicted a growth between 3% and 5% for 2019-20. Two-wheelers too saw a forecast of 5-7% growth, nearly same as the 5% growth realised in 2018-19.
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		+	“The situation on the jobs front is among some of the sentiments that have affected the growth in the passenger vehicles industry,” Siam president Rajan Wadhera said.
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		+	Wadhera, who is also the president of the automotive business of Mahindra & Mahindra, said that pre-election jitters and rising cost of insurance and fuel also kept buyers away from the market.
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		+	His view was backed by industry analyst VG Ramakrishnan, MD of consultancy firm Avanteum Advisors. “The impact on the jobs front is highly under-estimated so far. After GST, quite a bit of unorganised sector folded up and the number of companies reduced. The slowdown in the IT sector and bloodbath in telecom not only saw a reduction in total employment, but also created an uncertainty in the minds of those who are still employed. You tend to postpone new purchases, even though you may have the money.”
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		+	The nervousness in the metro and semi-urban markets hit the demand for scooters badly with market leader HMSI (Honda) forced to cut production as sales fell. A top official with one of the leading two-wheeler companies said that the going remains tough even in rural markets. “When it comes to motorcycles, rural markets are nearly 50% of total sales. There is simply no traction in rural, and we are struggling to get numbers,” the official, who requested anonymity, said.
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		+	Siam’s Wadhera said the industry is saddled with excess capacity, which will limit the capacity of companies to make new investments. “There is enough capacity in all the segments. I do not expect major investments to flow in on the growth forecast that we have given.”
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		+	The problem for the auto industry is that new numbers are not coming in even though they have launched new models and have also thrown in attractive discounts and freebies.
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		+	“In the bigger metros, shared mobility is also pinching demand. Many of the younger people are in no hurry to buy a car, and are happy with Olas and Ubers. They are least interested in buying a car, even though aspirations are intact,” Jnaneswar Sen, former sales and marketing chief at Honda Cars India, said.

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 ==2017, India: World’s biggest market for two-wheelers==

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	Indeed, the 75-110cc entrylevel commuter segment has actually grown from 5.9 million units to 6.7 million units in the April-February period. The 110-125cc commuter segment has also grown from 1.7 million units to 2 million units in the same period. Both these segments were under pressure when rural demand was stuck in first gear due to poor rains, among other reasons.		Indeed, the 75-110cc entrylevel commuter segment has actually grown from 5.9 million units to 6.7 million units in the April-February period. The 110-125cc commuter segment has also grown from 1.7 million units to 2 million units in the same period. Both these segments were under pressure when rural demand was stuck in first gear due to poor rains, among other reasons.
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		+	==2017-19: superbike sales==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F02%2F14&entity=Ar02906&sk=4C8F49EB&mode=text John Sarkar, Sliding superbike sales prompt offers, February 14, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	[[File: 2017-19- superbike sales.jpg\|2017-19: superbike sales <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F02%2F14&entity=Ar02906&sk=4C8F49EB&mode=text John Sarkar, Sliding superbike sales prompt offers, February 14, 2019: ''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	Two-wheeler companies in India are offering lucrative discounts on superbikes to liquidate stocks, as potential buyers are moving to smaller capacity motorcycles.
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		+	Sales of motorcycles with engine capacity between 800cc and 1600cc have taken a beating between April 2018 and January 2019. In comparison, sales of bikes with engine capacity greater than 500cc and less than/equal to 800cc increased from 2,858 units to 4,798 units during this period.
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		+	Most premium bike makers from Ducati and Harley-Davidson to Triumph are offering cash discounts and freebies on their high-end bikes to lure buyers and arrest the sales slide. These motorcycles cost upwards of Rs 10 lakh. Companies primarily attributed the reason to the widespread availability of cheaper mid-capacity motorcycles that sport price tags of Rs 3-7 lakh.
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		+	“We were selling around 15 bikes every month in the capital during this time last year, but currently we are finding it difficult to sell even five,” said an executive at a dealership at British bike maker Triumph Motorcycles.
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		+	While a Harley-Davidson India spokesperson refused to comment on discounts, executives at its dealerships said buyers can avail ‘benefits’ of up to Rs 2 lakh or around 10% of maximum retail price (MRP) on its high-end motorcycles.
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		+	“There is definitely a weakness in the market,” said the MD of a premium motorcycle company. “Factors like rising fuel costs, lack of liquidity in the system and high insurance costs have affected sales. Some companies, however, are facing slow sales due to product churn as they are phasing out older models and bringing in new ones.”

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 Apart from rural markets, focus is also on the 5 southern markets which together account for 28% of two wheeler sales countrywide and 43% scooter sales.
 =See also=
 [[Harley-Davidson]]