Electric Vehicles: Land, Water, Air - IDTechEx Reports and Subscriptions

In the wake of COVID-19, the new IDTechEx report 'Advanced Electric Cars 2020-2040' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global electric car industry in regional detail, and with a long-term outlook to 2040. It also provides a detailed analysis of the underlying technologies enabling the transition, from Li-ion batteries and Electric Traction Motors to Autonomous Vehicle technologies.

Electric, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Buses 2021-2040 addresses the market drivers of electrification, how the bus is being rapidly reinvented and the outlook for pure battery electric and plug-in hybrid powertrains in buses, including the prospects for fuel cell buses. This report presents IDTechEx's new regional forecasts for electric city bus uptake, reflecting different rates of fleet electrification across China, Europe, the US, India, and the rest of the world.

By 2040, Li-ion battery recycling will become a $31 billion market. In this report, we offer a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the Li-ion battery recycling processes and technologies, the value chain and economics of recycling, key market players as well as the regulations and policies on Li-ion battery recycling. A twenty-year market forecast on Li-ion battery recycling by regions, sectors, battery chemistries, and key metals recovered is presented.

The new IDTechEx report 'Electric Leisure & Sea-going Boats and Ships 2021-2040' reveals the challenges and growth for electrification in the maritime sector. It finds that leisure boats are the largest market by volume, but the deep-sea sector will take the largest market value and greatest battery demand.

By 2030, electric vehicle charging infrastructure will become a $40 billion market. In this report, we offer a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the various charging infrastructure for both passenger and commercial electric vehicles including conductive and wireless charging among others as well as key technologies such as fast charging, inductive and capacitive charging, robotic charging and battery swapping. A ten-year market forecast on EV charging infrastructure by sectors, power levels, applications and major regions is presented.

Understand hybrid and pure-electric vehicles and robotic for agriculture, forestry, turf care and their zero emission charging microgrids. Land vehicles the priority but drones and aquaculture covered. Depth on needs, challenges, players, applications, strategies, key enabling technologies including autonomy. Latest examples throughout. See detailed 2020-2030 forecasts in number and value for technology and achievement future timelines.

With the growing market for electric vehicles, greater demand is being put on performance and faster charging. With this comes an increase in the requirement to thermally manage the vehicle effectively. This includes not just performance and longevity requirements but also safety. This report addresses the thermal management of electric vehicle batteries, power electronics and motors, considering the current and emerging technologies with forecasts through to 2030.

Understand hybrid and pure-electric vehicles for mining and their charging microgrids with land vehicles the priority as the largest opportunity. Depth on needs, challenges, players, applications, strategies, opinions and key enabling technologies including a close look at autonomy examples, systems and components. Followers and leaders identified, appraised, compared.

Electric light commercial vehicles not only address the pressing environmental concerns facing on-road transport, they also increasingly offer the potential of significant TCO savings for LCV operators who transition their diesel fleets to electric. As a result, the eLCV market is uniquely poised for rapid electrification. IDTechEx's new Electric Vans forecast 2020-2030 report provides a granular ten-year outook for eLCV production, market penetration, market revenue and battery capacity requirement, at global and regional levels, to help companies make effective plans in this rapidly evolving sector.

Understand hybrid and pure-electric vehicles for construction, agriculture and mining and their charging microgrids, with land vehicles the priority as the largest opportunity. Depth on needs, challenges, players, applications, strategies and key enabling technologies including autonomy. Many latest examples throughout by company and vehicle. A massive $200 billion in 2040? See forecasts in number and value for 19 categories, technology and achievement timelines all 2020-2030. No other report comes close.

The medium and heavy-duty truck market is evolving. The days of the fossil fuel powered combustion engine are numbered. The IDTechEx Electric Truck 2020-2030 report provides 48 forecast lines for battery electric and fuel cell electric trucks, that include a ten-year outlook for vehicle production, market penetration and market value, separated by medium and heavy-duty, in the key regions, China, North America and Europe. This report will help businesses across the automotive value chain plan for the future in this rapidly changing market.

IDTechEx has issued the first in-depth report on this called "Robot Shuttles and Autonomous Buses 2020-2040". Robot shuttles are an important new, reconfigurable form of transportation for goods and people that may even function as mobile offices, restaurants and more. It finds that the heart of the subject is upright, boxy, 8-20 person vehicles that are symmetrical so they never do a U turn. Small footprint, all-round vision, large doors, quiet, zero emission, they can go indoors and over piazzas and roads and are able perform many different tasks even in one day. Primarily intended for intensive urban use, they are gated to never exceed a determined speed, typically in the range 50-60 kph. It all adds up to a new form of transport backed by both huge companies like Toyota and Baidu and startups, one having raised one billion dollars for the task. Their trials explore many possible applications, from empowering the poor and disabled, to viably filing in gaps in the transportation network and replacing very underutilised vehicles such as school buses and private cars, reducing congestion and cost.

This critical appraisal of EV motor manufacturing activity will be of interest to all in the EV value chain and those wishing to enter it. In particular, it will be useful to those seeking gaps in the market, acquisitions, investments and best practice. The report is a sister to the IDTechEx publication, "Electric Motors for Electric Vehicles: Land, Water, Air 2020-2030". That report deals with the technology roadmaps and the markets including forecasting in 100 categories.

By 2040, autonomous cars and robotaxi services will become a $2.5 trillion market which provides huge opportunities for companies across the autonomous driving ecosystem. In this report, we offer a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of enabling technologies including lidar, radar, camera, AI software, HD map, cybersecurity, 5G and V2X, key market players and market trends in autonomous driving. This report will enable companies to have a comprehensive view of the autonomous driving landscape and therefore evaluate the position of their product and technologies as well as their business opportunities.

This report reveals new materials combining electronic, electrical, optronic functions, forecasting a $200 billion opportunity. Monolithic flexible phones. Bionic man. Solar vehicles never plug in. One option - in-mold electronics -reduces car parts 95% by creating electrically-multifunctional single pieces. Chapters detail replacing dumb load-bearing structure even for roads, buildings, windows.

This report investigates the market for radar technology, specifically focusing on automotive applications. It develops a comprehensive technology roadmap, examining the technology at the levels of materials, semiconductor technologies, packaging techniques, antenna array, and signal processing. It demonstrates how radar technology can evolve towards becoming a 4D imaging radar capable of providing a dense 4D point cloud that can enable object detection, classification, and tracking.

IDTechEx present a comprehensive analysis of 106 players who develop unique 3D lidar technologies, primarily for the ADAS and autonomous vehicles market. Our interview-based company profiles and company backgrounds cover all 106 players. Forecasts are segmented into six emerging lidar technologies and four types of vehicles. The global 3D lidar market for autonomous vehicles grows to $5.4 billion by 2030, with MEMS lidar emerging as the largest market segment.

Conformal solar bodywork makes truly solar vehicles get at least 10% of their travel from daylight. Large orders are being placed for such vehicles. This report deeply investigates how several technologies achieve this, where and what comes next, even benchmarking best practice in solar boats and aircraft. Its $15 bn forecast for solar cars has upside potential now many majors are involved.

This report is of vital interest to all in the electric vehicle value chain from materials and component suppliers to parts and motor manufacturers a product integrators. Indeed there is much here for vehicle manufacturers and it is essential reading for planners. Electric motors are the only components that appear in all electric vehicles. Even batteries are sometimes replaced by supercapacitors. Every year, IDTechEx rewrites its definitive study of such motors. This year a new assessment is particularly important because so many things are changing. The chapters reflect these changes.

New research by IDTechEx in its report, "48V Mild Hybrid and 48V Full Hybrid Vehicles 2020-2030" reveals that the 48V mild hybrid powertrain is a done deal. Launched in 2016, now a flood of car models with this modification to traditional cars will keep them legal in the face of tightening emissions laws and save fuel. Indeed, it is now clear that they improve comfort, for example by powering active suspension and in some cases improve performance too. Next year the 48V repertoire will be seen from Ferrari to Volkswagen Golf and family cars in China. The Bentley Bentaygo and RAM pickup truck has the option so its universality is well proven even before we see substantial sales in the Daimler bus version. None are electric vehicles because they never drive the wheels electrically but it is now clear that they can be developed into just that. They are 48V mild hybrids heralding another big step forward, the 48V full hybrid.

By 2030, second-life electric vehicle battery capacity will exceed 275GWh per year, which provides huge opportunities for companies across the automotive and energy storage sectors. In this report, we offer a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the key technologies, players and market opportunities across the second-life battery value chain. Insights from this report will help companies reflect their business models to better seize the value opportunities provided by second-life batteries.

The business of electric vehicles and their batteries is changing rapidly so new analysis is essential. This new facts-based analysis has much more detail 2020-2030 that is available anywhere else.

Manned electric aircraft will span fixed wing and vertical takeoff, hybrid and pure electric, small to large and only this report covers it all. It has many new infograms and project, technology and company comparisons. See many new 10 year forecasts and technology timelines and views to 2050 from IDTechEx and major players. The time has come: the current leader immediately gained an orderbook of over $165 million.

China is the world's largest EV market and an increasingly formidable EV exporter, innovator and acquiror so this is vital reading for all in the EV business. Learn the favoured technologies and applications of EVs in China with technology and sales leaders identified and new, detailed number and value forecasting in easily assimilated form. One new type will sell at three times the volume of e-bikes. Grasp the leadership in technology such as supercapacitor and solar vehicles and surprising vulnerabilities where foreigners can assist. China needs millions more electric buses: what else?

Energy storage in buses and trucks is similar. These storage markets are growing rapidly to over $200 billion in 2029. Urban buses and delivery trucks are well into electrification, pure electric versions with large batteries dominating. Now larger trucks are a focus: the world has ten times as many trucks as buses. 1.5 million school buses will electrify. See detailed forecasts in units, cost, market value and technology roadmaps.

Fuel cells (FC), particularly those based on hydrogen, have long been heralded as the solution for electric transportation. While batteries have stolen the scene in recent years, IDTechEx has identified a number of applications where FCs can offer a better solution than Li-ion batteries, especially when it comes to range and fast refuelling. We believe this market can potentially boom to reach $200B by 2029.

Petrol motorcycles have largely stagnated in the US and Europe since the financial crisis, while sales volume in India nearly topped 20 million last year, up 15 percent. With most motorcycles below 150cc in India and south-east Asia, the potential for electric two-wheelers huge. Against the backdrop of tightening regulations, government subsidies and fresh targets for 2030, we predict the electric two-wheeler market will grow to $41 billion by 2029.

IDTechEx is first to reveal huge investment potential and market opportunity for Energy Independent Electric Vehicles: they never take on fuel or plug in. They are mobile zero emission microgrids with much in common with static microgrids. Best sectors for adoption of EIEVs are forecasted. Infograms and tables clarify the emerging technologies for the necessary extreme energy harvesting and powertrain efficiency that will make it happen. Players, trials, plans, enablers are analysed from latest global information. Technology and product launch roadmaps are presented.

Roads and their surroundings will generate huge amounts of electricity powering automatic de-icing, snow removal, electric vehicle charging, interactive lighting, structural health monitoring and more. The result will be enhanced safety, speed, saving, air and water quality and a $100 billion new business. This report scopes the technologies, players and opportunities, forecasting ten years and road-mapping 20 years ahead.

Vehicles becoming electric will create a $300 billion plus power electronics market in 2027. Researched worldwide in 2016/2017, with infographics, ten year roadmaps and projections, this report details how power electronics grows because the number of motor controllers per vehicle is increasing and steering, suspension and other previously mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic parts become power electronics. In addition, multiple forms of recuperation and energy harvesting will create electricity in vehicles.

Solid state battery is considered to be one of the next-generation battery technologies with its advantages of better safety, superior performance, flexible form factor and lower cost. Both the inorganic and organic solid-state electrolytes have been developed by various players through different technology approaches. Solid state battery has also attracted tremendous attention globally with strategic governmental supports. This report will provide detailed technology analysis, player activities, market assessment and business insights. In a decade, the market for solid state batteries will reach $7 billion.

The sensor business is massively impacted by COVID-19, mobility reinvented, diabetes etc. Only in this report can you see the whole picture as it becomes around $250 billion in 2041.

The market for 5G infrastructure and mobile devices is increasing rapidly. New 5G networks involve many more installations and higher frequencies than previous generations. These increases and changes in design and technology bring about the need for effective thermal management. This report addresses the thermal considerations in the 5G market from the aspects of installation size, frequency, antenna size, semiconductor technology, die attach materials, power supplies and thermal interface materials. Current and emerging strategies are described along with forecasts across these categories through to 2030.

The developments in agricultural robotics, machine vision, and AI will drive a deep and far-reaching transformation of the way farming is carried out. Yes, today the fleet sizes and the total area covered by new robots are still vanishingly small compared to the global agricultural industry. Yet, this should not lull the players into a false sense of security because the ground is slowly but surely shifting. Robotics and AI are enabling a revolution in affordable ultraprecision, which will eventually upend familiar norms in agrochemical supply, in agricultural machine design, and in farming practices.

The report provides a clear and objective picture about the hydrogen economy, giving the reader a perspective of the current status and future development of hydrogen as an energy carrier. A complete description of the different fuel cells and electrolysers, will allow the reader to understand the chemical principles, materials involved, technical limits and future opportunities of each technology, including the main players on the market.

Chapters respectively on new opportunities for graphene, carbon nanotubes, metal organic frameworks, ionic liquids etc. for the supercapacitors, battery-supercapacitor hybrids, pseudocapacitors also covered. Learn these new key-enabling components for automotive, wearables and healthcare. Learn these flexible, stretchable and load-bearing smart materials, some multifunctional, enabling structural electronics and battery elimination: biocompatible, biodegradable, implantable, stretchable materials. Some are smart feedstock you cut to size and they still operate. Forecasts, best research results.

The vibrant market for zero-emission microgrids embraces kW to MW driven by industrial, commercial, island and military applications. New water, solar, wind technologies promise many houses becoming ZE battery microgrids then ships, smart roads. A huge $350 billion market is being created with remarkable opportunities for materials, components, systems, software. Only this 230 page report with 80 new infograms and graphs assesses and predicts it all from 2020-2040.

The report provides a holistic picture of the Li-ion market, where demand is coming from, and the players involved in cell, cathode and anode manufacturing. It provides in-depth analysis on the various technological developments and trends taking place in Li-ion batteries to allow informed strategic investment and business development decisions.

Learn market drivers, best practice through over 100 organisations, microgrid-in-a-box, distributed microgrids, vehicle-as-microgrid. For external zero-emission, off-grid ZEOG charging, this big-picture approach pays off, revealing huge markets in sectors rarely studied. For example, with most people in city apartments, IDTechEx finds the first large opportunity is not cars but off-road industrial vehicles. Many others are found including, later, a huge market for solar houses charging cars.

This report investigates Automated guided vehicles/carts; autonomous industrial material handling vehicles, goods-to-person robots, collaborative autonomous mobile robots, mobile picking robots, autonomous trucks and delivery vans and pods, delivery drones, and sidewalk last mile delivery robots: technologies, markets, forecasts.

By 2030, Li-ion battery demand will exceed 3 TWh, providing both opportunities and risks. In this report, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the Li-ion supply chain, including key technologies, players, demand forecasts and cost analysis. The analysis and insight from this report will help to provide clarity for investment in the growing LIB market.

This report investigates the market for various die and substrate attach materials used in power electronics in various electric vehicles. It builds a detailed quantitative model to forecast the addressable market size for die as well as substrate attach materials in various power electronic functions in all manners of electric vehicles. It also develops ten-year market forecasts, in value and mass, segmenting the market by material type. The materials considered herein include nano silver sintering, micro-silver sintering, Cu sintering, SAC and other solders, and transient liquid phase bonding materials.

Emerging semiconductor laser technologies will revolutionise industrial material processing and optical sensing markets. IDTechEx forecast the global laser diode and direct diode laser market to reach a size of $13.985 billion by 2029. Remarkably, the optical sensing segment grows by an order of magnitude during this period. Automotive and electronics industries will benefit greatly from advances in laser manufacturing, 3D sensing and imaging, lidar, and industrial machine vision.

The supercapacitor market has bottomed out and is now into a sustained period of strong growth. Recent actions of three giant companies not usually associated with supercapacitors illustrate why. Tesla just bought supercapacitor number one Maxwell Technologies. Geely of China has given Maxwell an order for the first widespread use of large supercapacitors in both 48V mild hybrid and full hybrid cars under its Volvo and other brands.

We all know China has 400,000 large battery buses and they are spreading across the world thanks to strong subsidies but there is another big opportunity coming with smaller buses. Uniquely, the new IDTechEx report, "Electric School Buses and Midi Buses 2019-2039" appraises this. There are over 1.5 million school buses, mostly midi buses but with larger ones favorite in North America. Federal support for electrification is poor or non-existent so adoption of electric versions has had to await public outcry about the entirely avoidable poisoning of children with engine fumes and cost-effectiveness even parity of up front price between the clean and dirty options. This is imminent.

Piezoelectric harvesting and sensing have been 7% of the piezoelectric business but millions of dollars newly invested in piezoelectric roads and reinvention of sensing for IOT, smart cities healthcare etc. may lead to a new piezo market of over one billion dollars. Patent filings and new materials and formats such as printing, flexible film and coating are strongly increasing in number. This report uniquely covers it all including interviews globally, next technology, markets.

Fluoropolymer market growth becomes powered by newly optimised electrical and electronic uniques such as triboelectricity, artificial muscle, ion exchange. Here comes electricity generation from floors, architectural textiles, sails. New formulations serve many functions in one device such as sensing, actuation, signalling. We prioritise what is arriving for morphing aircraft, next generation batteries, fuel cells, ocean wave power and more. Billion dollar businesses, premium pricing and huge benefits to society await.

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the drone market, considering components, technologies, application roadmaps and markets.

AWE is a new generation, zero emission generator - mobile, no infrastructure. In 2018 it moved from 1. Mainly engineering led projects seeking size and 2. Modest sales of hobbyist systems to something in-between that is far more promising - first sales of 30-100kW systems into key verticals. Niche marketing promises billion dollar sales. The rich and patient also have potential with giants in wind farms. Learn developer plans, technology roadmap.

People are moving to cities for reasons such as jobs and entertainment. Over 60% live in cities and WHO and the UN have forecasted figures up to 80% in cities by 2050. Sadly there are big negatives to this such as pollution, water rationing, global warming, social disruption and increased vulnerability to physical and cyber attack. Cities often suffer overwhelmed education and healthcare including the diabetes epidemic and there is chronic obesity from bad eating in cities. Here are the $100 billion antidotes but the smart city will go even beyond these.

The report provides coverage of highly innovative laser technologies and the rapidly growing fiber laser market, which are rarely explored by market research companies. The report is authored by an analyst with a technical background in laser physics research.

Smart Glass is electrically active glass mainly for use in automotive, architectural and avionic windows, with demand growing to $1.1 billion in ten years. It is typically for electronic shading in place of physical blinds, or a semi-transparent PV window to generate electricity locally. As the only comprehensive report covering the technologies and markets, it will assist all in the value chain including building and vehicle designers, sellers and users.

Poisonous materials are arriving in many electronic and electrical devices and structures. Mostly, there is no listing of them, assessment of risks, description of alternatives. For the first time this report looks at the toxicity and likely prevalence of the burgeoning number of materials and devices of concern, making recommendations concerning better legal constraints. It reveals many little known alternatives that are safer in manufacture, use, abuse and disposal.

The pressing need for solutions that provide the same functional capacity but at a lighter weight is apparent across numerous industries. Lightweight metals provide the most advanced solution to this challenge. IDTechEx have analysed the complete supply chain for aluminium, magnesium, metal matrix composites (MMC), and metal foams. Each one stands at different levels of market maturity, but all possess underlying advancements in technological innovations and contain a wealth of opportunities.

Advanced Li-ion battery technologies are being developed all the time, but only a few make it to the mass production stage. This report analyses all main cathode (LCO, NMC, LFP, NCA) and anode (graphite, LTO, silicon, lithium metal) chemistries and benchmarks their potential against other existing or future battery technologies, such as lithium sulphur, lithium air, supercapacitors, redox flow batteries, sodium ion batteries, and zinc batteries.

Millions of devices that had batteries are now redesigned to avoid them, unlocking new business. This new 300+ page report reveals latest ways of eliminating batteries to permit mass deployment of IOT, electric vehicles with "perpetual" speed and almost unlimited life and much more. See relevance and technology for applications from sensors to the energy grid and ships.

Composite parts consist of fibres embedded in a matrix to give superior properties in comparison to their individual elements. The industry appears well-established, but beneath the surface, there are significant innovations at every step of the supply chain. This provides both improved and nascent materials and opportunities in both expanding and emerging applications. IDTechEx forecast this market to exceed $9bn by 2027 just for synthetic fibres in composite parts.