Description
Electric vehicles just became exciting. For 111 years, electric cars that rely only on a battery-"pure EVs"-have had a range of only 30-50 miles and the humble golf car has been the only type selling in hundreds of thousands every year. However, huge changes have been announced in 2009. Electric vehicles will penetrate the market rapidly to constitute 35% of the cars made in 2025-25% hybrids, 10% pure EV. Any motor manufacturer without a compelling line up of electric vehicles is signing its death warrant. These changes include:
Launch of cars that have a range of 250 miles or more in pure electric mode, including a pure EV family car made in China and plug in hybrid gasoline-electric cars.
Launch of the Toyota Prius plug in hybrid that will be very attractive to over one million purchasers of the existing Prius mild hybrid and millions of others. 95% of Prius owners would buy another.
First full production of the beautiful Tesla pure EV luxury sports car which silently outperforms conventional equivalents. Large initial orders show that this can be a multibillion dollar sector of the EV car business, particularly if we include new luxury hybrids such as the gorgeous Fiskar Karma.
Lithium electric car batteries from companies such as LGChem are claimed to last ten years, not the more usual three years. This hugely improves the economics of all EVs with range acceptable to mainstream purchasers.
President Obama's Stimulus Bill granted $14.4 billion for hybrids and huge sums have been allotted by other governments across the world to develop and subsidise use of EV cars to save the planet and the car industry and provide independence from dwindling oil reserves.
Within the decade, it will be possible for some suppliers to offer hybrid cars and no price premium to conventional cars in the way that the Japanese took the Western car market by storm 20 years ago by offering excellent vehicles with most accessories thrown in free. There would then be no strong reason why anyone would want the conventional alternative.
This unique report takes a detailed look at the market size from 2009-2019 and the government support, technology and new model launches that will get it there. It assesses work on energy harvesting in vehicles from light, heat and shock absorbers, new battery technologies, fuel cells, flywheels and other advances and clarifies which really matter. Here you can also learn which countries and companies are most impressive and why.
The only detailed and up to date critical analysis of both pure and hybrid EV cars worldwide
Entirely researched in 2009, this report gives the only detailed and up to date critical analysis of both pure and hybrid EV cars worldwide. With 200 pages and over 125 figures and tables including many new and detailed summaries and forecasts, it gives the future in the context of the past including the mistakes and inspired moves for over 100 years. It looks closely at the forceful new market drivers such as peak oil and government subsidies but it does not dwell on the well understood global warming debate that is also now driving things forward. Instead, it provides essential data useful to all investors, manufacturers, developers, component suppliers, marketing outlets, legislators and those planning financial support. Which will be the prosperous niches? What is the neglected part of leader Toyota's multibillion dollar business in EVs? Where is the action globally? Why is the geometry of the EV about to change? What about supercapacitors, supercabatteries, zinc air batteries and solar cells even over the windows? It is all here, provided by a global team of technical experts who have been tracking this industry for ten years and writing highly acclaimed forecasts about it.
Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. The world wakes up to global warming and oil running out.
1.2. Danger signs
1.3. Government support
1.4. Reluctant Australia
1.5. Germany the laggard
1.6. Rapid increase in number of manufacturers
2. PURE ELECTRIC CARS
2.1. The arguments against
2.2. Deja Vu
2.3. Examples of pure EV cars
2.3.1. REVA
2.3.2. ElBil Norge Buddy
2.3.3. New initiatives by Chrysler and Nissan
2.3.4. Think
2.3.5. Toyota
2.3.6. Tara Tiny
2.3.7. Aixam
2.3.8. Mitsubishi
2.3.9. Here come the Chinese-BYD and Brilliance
2.3.10. High performance pure EVs-Tesla
2.3.11. Golf EVs
3. HYBRID CARS
3.1. Construction and advantages of hybrids
3.2. Evolution
3.3. Chevrolet Volt
3.4. Market drivers
3.5. History of hybrids
4. BATTERIES, SUPERCAPACITORS AND SUPERCABATTERIES FOR CARS
4.1. What is a battery?
4.1.1. Battery history
4.1.2. Analogy to a container of liquid
4.2. Construction of a battery
4.3. Many shapes of battery
4.4. Requirements
4.5. What is on offer?
4.6. Energy density comparisons
4.7. Safety
4.8. Capacitors
4.8.1. What is a capacitor?
4.8.2. Capacitor history
4.8.3. Capacitor construction
4.9. How an ELDC supercapacitor works
4.9.1. Basic geometry
4.10. Properties of EDL
4.11. Can supercapacitors replace batteries?
4.12. Where do supercabatteries fit in?
4.13. Limitations of energy storage devices
4.14. Where supercapacitors fit in
4.15. Prospect of radically different batteries and capacitors
4.16. Threat to lithium prices?
5. ENERGY HARVESTING FOR CARS
5.1. Definition
5.2. Choices of harvesting
5.3. Opportunities for energy harvesting in cars
5.4. Fiat Phylla
5.5. Combined flexible layers
5.6. Pure EV motive power
5.7. Power from bumps in the road
5.8. Regenerative braking
5.9. Electricity from engine and exhaust heat
5.10. Vibration harvesting
6. ELECTRIC MOTORS FOR MOTIVE POWER IN CARS
6.2. Mitsubishi i-MiEV
6.3. Motor position
7. FUEL CELLS AND FLYWHEELS
7.1. Fuel cells
7.1.1. Definition and description
7.1.2. Current situation
7.1.3. Potential benefits
7.1.4. Types of fuel cell
7.2. New forms of fuel cell
7.2.1. Microbial fuel cells
7.2.2. Lightweight hydrogen generating fuel cell
7.2.3. Biomimetic approach with MIT fuel cell
7.3. Flywheels
8. MARKET FORECASTS
8.1. Car production
8.2. Cars and crude oil
8.2.2. Technical progress
8.3. Hybrid cars
8.3.1. History of hybrid car sales
8.4. Forecasts 2009-2019
8.5. Pure EVs
8.5.1. Total market
8.5.2. Market excluding golf cars
8.5.3. Golf cars
8.5.4. Fuel cell EVs
8.6. Battery trends
APPENDIX: GLOSSARY
TABLES
1.1. European Green Car Initiative approximate R&D budget 2010 to 2013 in millions of Euros
1.2. 80 examples of manufacturers and intending manufacturers of EV cars
2.1. 15 examples of golf EV manufacturers
3.1. Major market drivers for growth in hybrid sales
3.2. Objectives of the Ricardo Qinetiq diesel hybrid vs the Prius gasoline hybrid
3.3. Toyota Prius Sales by region 1997-2008 in thousands of units
3.4. Hybrid electric vehicles and associated events 1876-2011
4.1. The rising percentage of cost that is attributable to electronics in different types of vehicle
4.2. Important milestones in battery and capacitor history
4.3. Comparison of lead acid and lithium batteries for motive power in cars
4.4. Comparison of some options for large rechargeable lithium batteries
4.5. Examples of energy density figures for batteries, supercapacitors and other energy sources
4.6. Battery characteristics compared
4.7. Five ways in which a capacitor acts as the electrical equivalent of the spring
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