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| 1. | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS |
| 1.1. | Definitions |
| 1.1. | Global market for electric taxis based on regular cars as a percentage of the total electric car market in 2021 at ex-factory prices |
| 1.1. | Global demand for electric buses and taxis $ billion 2012-2023 |
| 1.2. | Global electric bus demand market forecast for 2012-2023, in numbers hybrid and numbers pure electric in thousands with total |
| 1.2. | Global electric bus demand market forecast 2012-2023, in numbers hybrid and pure electric in thousands |
| 1.2. | Manufacturing buses and taxis |
| 1.3. | Hybrids are key for now |
| 1.3. | Electric vs all buses purchased globally of units 2012-2023 rounded |
| 1.3. | Electric vs all buses purchased globally and % penetration of electric 2012-2023 in thousands rounded |
| 1.4. | Market drivers of global growth of bus and electric bus sales 2011-2021 and impediments |
| 1.4. | Bus size vs fuel consumption |
| 1.4. | Advantages of electric buses |
| 1.5. | Basis for forecasting global bus sales by region |
| 1.5. | Number, unit price and market value of hybrid electric buses 2012-2023, rounded |
| 1.5. | Approximate annual purchase of hybrid electric replacement buses by major cities in the period 2015-2021 |
| 1.6. | Advantages of pure electric buses, enjoyed to some extent by hybrid electric buses |
| 1.6. | Number, unit price and market value of pure electric buses 2012-2023, rounded |
| 1.6. | Demand and production in China |
| 1.7. | Adoption of electric buses vs electric cars |
| 1.7. | The total global market $ billion for electric buses 2012-2023 |
| 1.7. | Number, unit price and market value of hybrid electric buses 2012-2023, rounded |
| 1.8. | Pricing of hybrid buses in 2010 and premium over conventional equivalent |
| 1.8. | Number of buses purchased in 2011 by region |
| 1.8. | Taxis |
| 1.9. | Electric bus design is ahead of cars |
| 1.9. | In China, demand for electric vs all buses in thousands of units and % share 2012-2023 |
| 1.9. | Number, unit price and market value of pure electric buses 2012-2023, rounded |
| 1.10. | Pricing of pure electric buses in 2010 and premium over conventional equivalent |
| 1.10. | Kent electric city bus from China |
| 1.10. | Radically different bus powertrains |
| 1.11. | ABB intermittent overhead charging |
| 1.11. | Hino Blue Ribbon hybrid diesel electric bus in China |
| 1.11. | The total global market $ billion for electric buses 2012-2023 |
| 1.12. | Market drivers of future purchasing of buses by region and % growth |
| 1.12. | Electric bus in China |
| 1.12. | Bus statistics |
| 1.12.1. | e-Bus and bus backup information |
| 1.12.2. | Preference for hybrid |
| 1.12.3. | Total bus sales |
| 1.12.4. | Production and Sales of China Light Bus Market in November 2013 |
| 1.12.5. | Production and Sales of China Medium Bus Market in November 2013 |
| 1.12.6. | Production and Sales of China Large Bus Market in November 2013 |
| 1.13. | Bus by Tongkun New Energy Technologies Co. and FAW Bus and Coach Co |
| 1.13. | In China, demand for electric vs all buses in thousands of units and % share 2012-2023 |
| 1.14. | Estimates of hybrid bus transmission sales by manufacturer in 2009 |
| 1.14. | Electric pick-up truck from China Vehicles Company |
| 1.15. | Garbage collecting electric car by Shandong Shunxing Machinery |
| 1.15. | Hybrid bus sales 2008-2013 - forecasted numbers globally for some leading suppliers |
| 1.16. | Growth rate of market by numbers for buses and electric buses, hybrid and pure electric, 2011-2021 |
| 1.16. | Approximate number of manufacturers of electric vehicles worldwide by applicational category in 2011 |
| 1.17. | The approximate number of Chinese manufacturers of electric vehicles by applicational category in 2011 |
| 1.17. | Total number of taxis sold 2012-2023 and number of electric taxis 2012-2023 in thousands and % market share |
| 1.18. | Global demand for electric taxis 2012-2023 by number, unit value and market value |
| 1.18. | Total number of taxis sold 2012-2023 and number of electric taxis 2012-2023 in thousands |
| 1.19. | Cumulative number of hybrid car models and projected number of hybrid sales to 2020 |
| 1.19. | Demand in China for taxis and electric taxis, thousands and % penetration of taxis in China and of global electric taxis for 2012-2023 |
| 1.20. | Number, unit value and market value of electric taxis in China 2012-2023 |
| 1.20. | Global demand for electric taxis 2012-2023 |
| 1.21. | Number of taxis sold 2012-2023 and number of electric taxis in China 2012-2023 in thousands |
| 1.21. | Registered motorised taxis, with driver provided, by region in the world in 2010 |
| 1.22. | Examples of taxi population in leading cities |
| 1.22. | Number, unit value and market value of electric taxis in China 2012-2023 |
| 1.23. | Registered motorised taxis, with driver provided, by region in the world in 2010 |
| 1.23. | 2009 production statistics |
| 1.24. | TOSA bus specification |
| 1.24. | Examples of taxi population in leading cities |
| 1.25. | MAN Lion urban bus with supercapacitors and no traction battery |
| 1.25. | TOSA charging infrastructure specification |
| 1.26. | ABB TOSA charging system |
| 1.27. | Passenger space is not compromised, with onboard equipment packaged on the electric bus' roof. |
| 1.28. | Rapid battery charging takes place at every third or fourth bus stop along the pilot project's route, which runs between Geneva airport and the city's exhibition center. |
| 1.29. | Background information for total bus sales 2010/2011 |
| 1.30. | Top five sales volume of light bus manufacturers in November 2013 |
| 1.31. | Top five sales volume of medium bus manufacturers in November 2013 |
| 1.32. | Top five sales volume of large bus manufacturers in November 2013 |
| 2. | INTRODUCTION |
| 2.1. | Electric vehicles in general |
| 2.1. | Isuzu sales of buses 2005-2009 |
| 2.1. | Advantages of pure electric buses, enjoyed to some extent by hybrid electric buses |
| 2.2. | Challenges of electric buses and taxis |
| 2.2. | Electric bus in Nepal |
| 2.2. | Advantages of electric buses |
| 2.3. | Highlights 2011-2021 |
| 2.3. | PhUV pure electric bus |
| 2.3. | Main market drivers 2011-2021 |
| 2.4. | Electric vehicle highlights 2011-2021 |
| 2.4. | Tara pure electric Shuttle |
| 2.4. | Definitions and trends |
| 2.5. | Modest success of electric microbuses |
| 2.5. | A Volvo hybrid powertrain for buses is shown below |
| 2.5. | Limitations of trolleybuses and trams |
| 2.6. | Orion VII NG hybrid bus |
| 2.6. | Convergence of hybrid and pure electric buses. |
| 2.7. | Convergence of trolley buses and free running electric buses |
| 2.7. | Possible evolution of affordable, mainstream electric buses showing the convergence of hybrid and pure electric technologies as the conventional internal combustion engine ICE is abandoned |
| 2.8. | Rome trolleybus raising its trolley arms to switch from battery to overhead-wire power. In the view on the right the pick-up has yet to properly locate itself around the overhead wires |
| 2.8. | CNG Preferred for Los Angeles Buses |
| 2.9. | Opbrid pantograph for fast recharging |
| 2.10. | Hydrogen fuel cell for buses etc from UTC Power |
| 2.11. | Ultracapacitor layout in a MAN hybrid bus |
| 2.12. | In-road charging of small buses in Turin, Italy |
| 2.13. | Straddling bus concept |
| 3. | ELECTRIC BUS MANUFACTURERS AND TECHNOLOGIES |
| 3.1. | History of electric buses |
| 3.1. | Pure electric bus in 1907 |
| 3.1. | 78 examples of manufacturers of hybrid electric buses, with country of headquarters and image |
| 3.2. | 53 Manufacturers of pure electric buses, country of headquarters and image |
| 3.2. | Proposal for new London double decker hybrid electric bus |
| 3.2. | Main components of hybrid bus power trains |
| 3.3. | Superbus |
| 3.3. | Capoco driverless electric bus concept |
| 3.4. | Insectbus concept |
| 3.4. | Fuel cells rescued by batteries |
| 3.5. | OLEV technology for Korean buses in 2013 |
| 3.5. | 78 examples of hybrid electric bus producers by country of headquarters |
| 3.6. | 78 examples of hybrid electric bus producers by continent of headquarters |
| 3.6. | New pure electric school bus in USA |
| 3.7. | Sample of 53 pure electric bus manufacturers by continent |
| 3.8. | Sample of 53 pure electric bus manufacturers by country |
| 3.9. | Superbus |
| 3.10. | Trend of size of the largest (in red) and smallest (in green) fuel cell sets used in 98 bus trials worldwide over the last twenty years. |
| 3.11. | Evolution of traction batteries and range extenders for large hybrid electric vehicles as they achieve longer all-electric range over the next decade. |
| 3.12. | Three generations of lithium-ion battery with technical features that are sometimes problematical |
| 4. | PROFILES OF SOME INTERESTING SUPPLIERS |
| 4.1. | Alexander Dennis UK |
| 4.1. | Alexander Dennis Enviro400 hybrid bus configuration |
| 4.1. | Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co., Ltd releases its output and sales data of Oct. 2013. |
| 4.2. | SWOT for EVs |
| 4.2. | Hefei pure electric bus demonstration operation start ceremony |
| 4.2. | Anhui Ankai Automobile Company China |
| 4.3. | BredaMenarinibus Vivacity Italy |
| 4.3. | Daimler bus production locations |
| 4.4. | Unit sales of the Daimler bus division 2008-9 |
| 4.4. | BYD China |
| 4.5. | Daimler Germany |
| 4.5. | Daimler bus sales by global region H1 2009 |
| 4.6. | Daimler bus market share and market share of leading competitors in 2007 |
| 4.6. | Hino Motors and parent company, Toyota Japan |
| 4.7. | IVECO Italy |
| 4.7. | Daimler's technology roadmap for launching new bus technologies to 2015 |
| 4.8. | HyFLEET:CUTE fuel cell bus project in Europe and the US |
| 4.8. | ISE Corp, USA |
| 4.9. | MAN hybrid bus Germany: supercapacitor not battery |
| 4.9. | Hino hybrid bus |
| 4.10. | Hino "no plug in" bus. |
| 4.10. | Navistar USA |
| 4.11. | New Flyer Industries Canada |
| 4.11. | The positioning of the planned Toyota fuel cell hybrid bus FCHV-BUS |
| 4.12. | Iveco pure electric bus elements |
| 4.12. | Nova Bus Canada |
| 4.13. | Optare UK |
| 4.13. | Iveco configurations |
| 4.14. | ISE lean burn hybrid bus |
| 4.14. | Proterra |
| 4.15. | Ryobi Bus Japan |
| 4.15. | ISE initial hybrid configuration |
| 4.16. | MAN Lion urban hybrid bus |
| 4.16. | TATA India |
| 4.17. | Volvo Sweden |
| 4.17. | MAN Lion urban hybrid bus in section showing supercapacitors (ultracapacitors) in place of traction battery |
| 4.18. | Ryobi solar assisted electric bus |
| 4.18. | Wrightbus UK |
| 4.19. | Yutong Group |
| 4.19. | The Bladon Jets microturbine range extender is the size of two large cans of beans |
| 4.20. | Jaguar concept car demonstrated late 2010 |
| 4.20. | Zhongtong Bus Holding Co., Ltd, China |
| 4.21. | Tata electric roadmap of launches |
| 4.22. | Volvo presentation at eCarTec Munich where it advocated hybrid urban buses after claiming to have delivered more pure electric buses than anyone else (500 of them) |
| 4.23. | A Zhongtong pure electric bus |
| 5. | BUS DRIVE TRAINS |
| 5.1. | Adura Systems USA |
| 5.1. | Adura's MESA Powertrain |
| 5.2. | Azure Dynamics powertrain |
| 5.2. | Allison Transmission USA |
| 5.3. | Azure Dynamics USA |
| 5.3. | BAE Systems Hybridrive series hybrid bus powertrain |
| 5.4. | Eaton hybrid powertrain |
| 5.4. | BAE Systems UK, USA |
| 5.5. | BLK China |
| 5.5. | ISE Corp hybrid powertrain |
| 5.6. | SIM Drive in wheel traction |
| 5.6. | Eaton USA |
| 5.7. | ISE Corporation |
| 5.7. | SR drives series parallel power unit |
| 5.8. | ThunderVolt hybrid drive train for ISE buses |
| 5.8. | SIM Drive Corporation Japan |
| 5.9. | SR Drives UK, Green Propulsion Belgium |
| 5.10. | ThunderVolt USA |
| 6. | ELECTRIC TAXI MANUFACTURERS AND TECHNOLOGIES |
| 6.1. | Electric taxi projects in US, UK, Europe, China, Japan and Mexico |
| 6.1. | Taxi fire caused by a bad lithium-ion battery in a Chinese electric taxi |
| 6.1. | Eight projects testing pure electric taxis |
| 6.1.1. | China |
| 6.1.2. | Mexico |
| 6.1.3. | USA |
| 6.2. | Mitsubishi taxi rollout in Japan |
| 6.2. | Mitsubishi Minicab i-MiEV |
| 6.2.1. | Mitsubishi MiEV taxi |
| 6.3. | Beijing China |
| 6.3. | Mitsubishi MiEV Minicab |
| 6.4. | The Terra Motors e-trike |
| 6.4. | Changsha China |
| 6.5. | Changping District in Beijing China |
| 6.6. | Dalian China |
| 6.7. | Langfeng, Hebei China |
| 6.8. | Huge order in the Philippines in 2013 |
| 6.9. | Range-extended electric London cabs to be trialled in 2014 |
| 7. | TRACTION BATTERIES, FUEL CELLS, RANGE EXTENDERS |
| 7.1. | Traction batteries |
| 7.1. | Traction battery experience curve for pure electric battery electric vehicles |
| 7.1. | What is on the way in or out with traction batteries |
| 7.2. | 71 vertically integrated lithium traction battery cell manufacturers, their chemistry, cell geometry and customer relationships (not necessarily orders) |
| 7.2. | Volkswagen forecasts the following cost trend for the favoured types of traction battery |
| 7.2. | Who is winning in traction batteries and why |
| 7.2.1. | The needs have radically changed |
| 7.2.2. | It started with cobalt |
| 7.2.3. | Great variety of recipes |
| 7.2.4. | Other factors |
| 7.2.5. | Check with reality |
| 7.2.6. | Lithium winners today and soon |
| 7.2.7. | Reasons for winning |
| 7.2.8. | Lithium polymer electrolyte now important |
| 7.2.9. | Winning chemistry |
| 7.2.10. | Titanate establishes a place |
| 7.2.11. | Laminar structure |
| 7.2.12. | Niche winners |
| 7.2.13. | Fluid situation |
| 7.3. | Progress in improving energy density vs power density of traction batteries |
| 7.4. | Comparison of benefits and challenges for various types of traction battery |
| 7.5. | Geely IG solar car |
| 7.6. | Japanese ten meter long deep sea cruising AUV, the URASHIMA |
| 7.7. | Bionic dolphin |
| 7.8. | Deepflight Merlin |
| 7.9. | Cri-Cri pure electric stunt plane new in 2010 |
| 7.10. | Oshkosh truck |
| 7.11. | Approximate percentage of manufacturers offering traction batteries with less cobalt vs those offering ones with no cobalt vs those offering both. We also show the number of suppliers that offer lithium iron phosphate versions. |
| 8. | FUEL CELLS |
| 8.1. | Trials of fuel cell powered vehicles |
| 8.1. | Series hybrid bus being developed by Mobile Energy Solutions |
| 8.2. | MAN hybrid fuel cell bus |
| 8.2. | Fuel cell 2000 summary of fuel cell bus trials to 2010 |
| 8.3. | Range extenders |
| 8.3. | Van Hool fuel cell buses on trial |
| 8.4. | Fuel cell powered Hyundai bus on trial in Australia |
| 8.4. | US DOE Grant Sept 2013 |
| 8.5. | Mercedes Benz fuel cell bus trial |
| 9. | MARKET STATISTICS AND FORECASTS |
| 9.1. | Past trends |
| 9.1. | World heavy bus production by country and type for 2008-9 |
| 9.1. | 2009 production statistics |
| 9.1.1. | Commercial vehicles |
| 9.2. | Buses - historical trends |
| 9.2. | North American sales of school buses 2000-2009 |
| 9.2. | Bus production by country in 2002 |
| 9.3. | Global sales of buses by region 2002 |
| 9.3. | Daimler Group vehicle production by type in 2009 |
| 9.3. | School buses - North America |
| 9.4. | Past trend in bus production by country |
| 9.4. | Fiat Group vehicle production by type in 2009 |
| 9.4. | Country percentage share of heavy bus and school bus production in 2009 |
| 9.5. | US aircraft, vehicles and other conveyances 1995-2006 |
| 9.5. | GAZ Group vehicle production by type in 2009 |
| 9.5. | US population of buses by type |
| 9.6. | Transport modes in India |
| 9.6. | General Motors vehicle production by type in 2009 |
| 9.6. | US transportation capital stock by mode 1995-2007 current $ billion |
| 9.7. | Indian Cities Mode Split, 2007 (Wilbur Smith 2008) |
| 9.7. | Hyundai Group vehicle production by type in 2009 |
| 9.7. | Motor vehicle production by leading producers |
| 9.8. | Global electric bus deliveries to start of 2011 |
| 9.8. | Mahindra Group vehicle production by type in 2009 |
| 9.8. | The UK top five bus suppliers in 2006 and 2007 |
| 9.9. | Global demand for electric buses and taxis $ billion 2012-2023 |
| 9.9. | Navistar Group vehicle production by type in 2009 |
| 9.9. | Forecasts to 2023 |
| 9.9.1. | Global demand for electric buses and taxis |
| 9.9.2. | Manufacturing buses and taxis |
| 9.10. | Technology future |
| 9.10. | Tata Group vehicle production in 2009 |
| 9.10. | Global electric bus demand market forecast for 2012-2023, in numbers hybrid and numbers pure electric in thousands with total |
| 9.10.1. | Hybrids are key for now |
| 9.11. | Future leading manufacturers |
| 9.11. | Volvo group production in 2009 |
| 9.11. | Electric vs all buses purchased globally and % penetration of electric 2012-2023 in thousands rounded |
| 9.11.1. | Today's leading electric bus manufacturer |
| 9.11.2. | Future leading user nation |
| 9.11.3. | Buses and taxis a good launch pad for new technologies |
| 9.11.4. | Global conventional and electric bus demand 2010-2021 |
| 9.11.5. | Advantages of electric buses |
| 9.12. | Decade of the hybrid |
| 9.12. | Global market for electric taxis based on regular cars as a percentage of the total electric car market in 2021 |
| 9.12. | Market drivers of global growth of bus and electric bus sales 2011-2022 and impediments |
| 9.13. | Approximate annual purchase of hybrid electric replacement buses by major cities in the period 2015-2021 |
| 9.13. | Global electric bus demand market forecast 2012-2023, in numbers hybrid and pure electric in thousands |
| 9.13. | Liberty Electric Cars |
| 9.14. | Basis for forecasting global bus sales by region |
| 9.14. | Electric vs all buses purchased globally of units 2012-2023 rounded |
| 9.14. | Advantages of pure electric buses, enjoyed to some extent by hybrid electric buses |
| 9.15. | Number, unit price and market value of hybrid electric buses 2012-2023, rounded |
| 9.15. | Bus size vs fuel consumption |
| 9.15. | Conventional and electric bus demand and production in China |
| 9.16. | Adoption of electric buses vs electric cars |
| 9.16. | Number, unit price and market value of hybrid electric buses 2012-2023, rounded |
| 9.16. | Pricing of hybrid buses in 2010 and premium over conventional equivalent |
| 9.17. | Number, unit price and market value of pure electric buses 2012-2023, rounded |
| 9.17. | Number, unit price and market value of pure electric buses 2012-2023, rounded |
| 9.17. | Global electric vehicle manufacturers by application |
| 9.18. | Chinese manufacturers of electric vehicles by application |
| 9.18. | The total global market $ billion for electric buses 2012-2023 |
| 9.18. | Pricing of pure electric buses in 2010 and premium over conventional equivalent |
| 9.18.1. | Taxis |
| 9.19. | Adoption of green taxis |
| 9.19. | Global bus sales >8t, per manufacturer 2010/2011 ('000) |
| 9.19. | The total global market $ billion for electric buses 2012-2023 |
| 9.20. | Market drivers of future purchasing of buses by region and % growth |
| 9.20. | Number of buses purchased in 2011 by region |
| 9.20. | Electric vehicles in East Asia |
| 9.21. | Total change |
| 9.21. | In China, demand for electric vs all buses in thousands of units and % share 2012-2023 |
| 9.21. | In China, demand for electric vs all buses in thousands of units and % share 2012-2023 |
| 9.22. | Estimates of hybrid bus transmission sales by manufacturer in 2009 |
| 9.22. | Approximate number of manufacturers of electric vehicles worldwide by applicational category in 2011 |
| 9.23. | The approximate number of Chinese manufacturers of electric vehicles by applicational category in 2011 |
| 9.23. | Hybrid bus sales 2008-2013 - forecasted numbers globally for some leading suppliers |
| 9.24. | Growth rate of market by numbers for buses and electric buses, hybrid and pure electric, 2011-2021 |
| 9.24. | Total number of taxis sold 2012-2023 and number of electric taxis 2012-2023 in thousands |
| 9.25. | Cumulative number of hybrid car models and projected number of hybrid sales to 2020 |
| 9.25. | Total number of taxis sold 2012-2023 and number of electric taxis 2012-2023 in thousands and % market share |
| 9.26. | Global demand for electric taxis 2012-2023 by number, unit value and market value |
| 9.26. | Global pure electric car sales 2009-2020 excluding golf cars and cumulative number of new models since 2000 |
| 9.27. | Global demand for electric taxis 2012-2023 |
| 9.27. | Demand in China for taxis and electric taxis, thousands and % penetration of taxis in China and of global electric taxis for 2012-2023 |
| 9.28. | Number, unit value and market value of electric taxis in China 2012-2023 |
| 9.28. | Number of taxis sold 2012-2023 and number of electric taxis in China 2012-2023 in thousands |
| 9.29. | Number, unit value and market value of electric taxis in China 2012-2023 |
| 9.29. | Registered motorised taxis, with driver provided, by region in the world in 2010 |
| 9.30. | Examples of taxi population in leading cities |
| 9.30. | Registered motorised taxis, with driver provided, by region in the world in 2010 |
| 9.31. | Examples of taxi population in leading cities |
| 9.31. | The percentage value share by country of the East Asian electric vehicle market 2011-2021 |
| 9.32. | The percentage value share by country of the East Asian electric vehicle market 2011 |
| 9.33. | The percentage value share by country of the East Asian electric vehicle market 2021 |
| APPENDIX 1: IDTECHEX PUBLICATIONS AND CONSULTANCY | |
| APPENDIX 2: INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES | |
| TABLES | |
| FIGURES |
| Pages | 241 |
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| Tables | 68 |
| Figures | 141 |
| Forecasts to | 2023 |