Car Carriers Prospects in China Market

With the rapid development of the domestic automotive industry, there are huge business opportunities highlighted by its related supporting on-site car handling equipment (also known as car transporters or car carriers). According to calculations, there are only a few R&D companies that have invested in the product in China. In terms of this market, China is almost at a blank.

The question is raised: How does a car move in the field (in a limited space, that is, a parking lot or a small space)?

The traditional method is nothing more than the driver of the car driving his own mobile and manpower to solve. The huge waste of human resources and energy fuel brought about by the appeal of the two traditional methods is immeasurable for the following reasons:

First, the waste of parking resources.

In Beijing, the city’s car ownership exceeded 5 million in 2012. In theory, if the city has 5 million cars, then there should be parking for 5 million cars. If a parking space covers an average area of ​​10 square meters, the total area is 50 million square meters (50 square kilometers). Assuming that the city has 5 million standard parking spaces, and every car parked in a parking space is parked according to standards, then Beijing needs only 5 million parking spaces. In fact, it is still common for many new drivers and drivers not to follow the rules to occupy two cars in one car, or two cars occupying three parking spaces. If 1% of drivers do this, then Beijing will need more 50,000 parking spaces to fill. In other words, a large city may have some people occupying the originally congested parking resources due to random parking, and this resource has not been maximally utilized.

2. Expenditure on human resources In the parking lot, because of the shortage of parking resources, those parking lots that are charged (there are some places where there is no parking space) need to increase the number of people to correct and direct the drivers to correctly place the vehicles, in order to maximize Use parking spaces to increase revenue.

In a car 4S shop, if there are hundreds of cars that need short-distance transport, it may take a day or even days to finish if the driver is to move. When transporting, it takes a lot of people to help together.

By analogy, in China, where there are large parking spaces for units and places, you can see that many people are dedicated to parking. The number of jobs is extremely large!

Third, the energy of the crowded and limited parking space, so that many drivers spend a few minutes to park the car in an accurate location. It can be calculated that if 5 million cars (2.5 million cars a day) are driven on average every day in the 5 million cars in Beijing, 50% of them need to spend an additional 2 minutes to park cars. That is 50,000 hours. If each car at low speed consumes an average of 5 liters per hour, that is, 250,000 liters of gasoline. We only make a rough estimate of Beijing. If it is extended to the whole country, this figure is extremely amazing.

The solution of the problem, the emergence of car transporters I. China's huge car market At the end of 2012, the country’s motor vehicle fleet has reached 240 million, of which 120 million are car ownership. It is estimated that by 2020, China’s car ownership is expected to reach 200 million vehicles. The rapid growth of vehicles has brought a series of problems to the crowded cities in China that have more than 50% urbanization. Simply relying on drivers to park and transfer cars is no longer able to meet China's thirst for land resources with its huge population base. Well, the on-the-spot car handler can solve this problem well.

Second, the scope of application of car carriers Car carriers originated in foreign countries, in Europe and the United States and other economically developed countries, especially in Europe, the scarcity of land resources and high labor costs, making the product has a wide range of applications. The car carrier is the first to be used in automobile inspection agencies. Due to the need to move frequently in narrow spaces, the driver is scarce and reduces the need for energy consumption and exhaust gas from the low-speed operation of the car engine. The product exhibits strong mobility and can be used. Alternative.

Today, car carriers can be widely used in residential property parking lots, shopping malls, auto repair shops and 4S shops, automobile manufacturing plants, automobile inspection agencies, F1 racing fields, auto showrooms, trailer companies, car collectors and museums, scenic parking Fields, municipal law enforcement agencies, traffic management departments and other industries. It can greatly increase the efficiency of on-site car transportation, save costs, and protect the environment. It is a big product in the modern logistics handling market segment.

Vehicle handlers can also be used on highways, which are linked accidents on highways. In those narrow roads, traditional car trailers are no longer in use. Small car handlers can clear roads and clear roads in a short time.

Third, the status quo of domestic carrier manufacturers At present, there is only one company specializing in the production of car transporters in China, namely Shanghai Yike Handling Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The company began to introduce such products to the market as early as 2 years ago. Depending on the technical and scientific research team's efforts, the design concept of “safety, technology, comfort, and environmental protection” was developed to apply to car manufacturers, 4S stores and parking lots. Other areas of electric drive special vehicle shifting equipment. At present, it is acquiring a number of utility model design patents in China, and it has the technical strength to replace the foreign products of the same grade.

According to Liu Xiaobo, general manager of Shanghai Yike Handling Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., “A new product needs to enter the market and requires market inspection. Before preparing to invest in this product, it is necessary to recognize the current status of the industry, find a suitable operating mode for its own company, and take the difference. To avoid competition peaks, first train internal strength, strictly control product quality, increase product technology content, and form the characteristics of the company.”

He also said that if the product is only monopolized by a company called “Yike”, this market cannot be made big. It needs the colleagues of the Chinese industrial vehicle industry to attach importance to and develop this huge market.

Sweden's Famek, a 20-year-old company, is one of the first companies in the world to launch a car carrier. The product can be neat and convenient in a small space for the transfer of the car, and suitable for long-distance movement. The company’s sales director Anders said that the biggest innovative design of the Famek 450 LD is that the operator can drive on the platform, has a good vision and is fully ergonomic and easy to operate.

IV. Features and Benefits of Car Carriers The biggest feature of car carriers is that they can significantly reduce labor costs and make handling easier and more efficient. It provides a solution to mechanized handling of manually driven cars in the field. In places where parking resources are extremely scarce, the number of parked cars can be maximized.

The advantage lies in the fact that electric vehicle-powered car carriers have the characteristics of non-emission of exhaust gas, low noise, large carrying load, small turning radius, easy and flexible operation, and high safety performance.

V. Manufacturing and R&D Costs The car carrier is in fact a long-armed electric pallet forklift that has been modified to lift no more than 2 tons.

A few years ago, car carriers that were monopolized by individual foreign companies were sold at very high prices (more than RMB 100,000) and were purchased only by a few foreign companies and car inspection agencies.

We can measure the R&D and mold-opening costs of a modified long arm electric pallet truck. Such a vast market can in fact allow many powerful Chinese industrial vehicle companies to participate in it and jointly expand this market to promote the popularity of the product in China.

VI. Prospects in China As mentioned above, car carriers have a wide range of applications. China is a populous country with a population of 1.3 billion people. The improvement of living standards has led to the rapid development of car ownership. Under the triple pressure of scarcity of land resources, labor costs, and environmental protection, car carriers are a huge segment of market products that can easily be discovered in the industrial vehicle industry.

At present, the development of China's auto carrier has only just begun, and the market scale has not yet formed. China ForkNet has every reason to believe that new entrants to the market are gradually increasing. Based on China's current favorable policies for the automotive industry and the logistics industry, as a new type of transportation products, the market potential of auto carriers is obvious to all. The product will be accompanied by strong demand from the automotive industry in the coming years and will show a high growth rate in a period of time.