A nano technology Li battery vendor's Rosy scenario for growth in vehicle
battery demands, but it
has some interesting quotes and info:
"
the HEV market today is dominated by Toyota and Honda, there are a total of 9
HEV models in
production and 18 others are slated for production in the near future. This
presents enormous
opportunity for battery makers. In fact, the battery market for HEVs in 2010 is
predicted to
surpass $3B as a result of 2-3 million HEVs in production. In addition, over
the next five years,
the plug-in hybrid market will rapidly grow and the pure EV market will finally
begin to sell
meaningful volumes.
? GM believes that ¼ of the North American market will be hybrid by 2015
? Toyota plans to sell 400K HEV units in 2006 (total of all HEV vehicles sold
in 2005 topped
300K); more impressively, the car maker predicts sales of 1M by 2010
? Ford recently announced that the company plans to increase its annual
production of hybrid
electric vehicles (HEVs) to 250,000 units per year by 2010.
? Avicenne predicts that there will be nearly 5 million HEV units sold in 2015.
As the HEV market continues to grow, so does the need for high performance
batteries. For example,
batteries for HEVs were 0.3% of the battery market in 2000 ? in 2005, this
share increased to 5%."
Tim Hughes
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