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According to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry(Keizai Sangyo Sho), sales of automotive batteries in 2008 rose by 13.4% on the year to 119.6 billion yen. This marks the second straight year to show year on year increase.

Factory shipment volume of the batteries(combined total of shipments by GS Yuasa Corp., Panasonic Storage Battery Co., Sin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., and The Furukawa Battery Co.) in 2008, however, declined 8.2% to 240.4 million units, showing the second consecutive year of decline.

Of the 2008 total, 115.6 billion units were used for new vehicles. The remaining 151.2 billion units were sold mostly by independent car maintenance & repair stations in 2008. Roughly 25% of automotive batteries was handled by them. Car dealers sold 21.3% of total aftermaket batteries. Specialist car parts sohps and tire shops took 18.1% share of the battery sales in the aftermarket.

In rerecent years, sales of high-grade batteries for replacement have been sharply increasing as the demand for vehicles equipped with and alternator-controlling system(Juden-Seigyosha) for fuel saving is expanding. In order to achieve high leves of fuel efficiency as much as possible, carmakers are increasingly making such cars equipped with and alternator-controlling system that requires high-performance batteries.