Electric Vehicles Reports and Subscriptions

IDTechEx forecasts significant growth in the global drone market through 2036, driven by rising commercial adoption across agriculture, logistics, inspection, military, and emergency response. The Drone Market 2026-2036 report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global drone market, covering both commercial drones and consumer UAVs, and includes detailed segmentation across fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms. This report offers a fully rebuilt drone market forecast, incorporating updated historical data, 10-year volume and revenue projections, and scenario-based outlooks across eight major application areas. In addition to market sizing, the report examines key enabling technologies, including autonomy, navigation systems, SLAM, flight-control architectures, and drone sensors such as cameras, LiDAR, radar, IMUs, and pressure and ultrasonic sensors. IDTechEx also presents an updated sensor-per-drone forecast and a long-term drone sensor market outlook, providing insights into payload trends and hardware requirements. Supported by a fully updated global regulatory analysis and over 100 pages of application-level research, this report helps stakeholders -- drone manufacturers, operators, investors, and regulators -- better understand where market opportunities lie, how regulatory frameworks shape deployment, and which technologies are most likely to define the next decade of UAV innovation.

The rapidly growing electric vehicle market puts a huge demand on electric motors across several global regions and different vehicle categories. Within this market, there are trends around motor technology and topology, power and torque density, materials utilization, and thermal management. This report addresses these trends within the markets for battery-electric or hybrid cars, vans, trucks, buses, two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and microcars, with OEM use-cases, benchmarking, and granular market forecasts.

IDTechEx's report on electric vehicle (EV) power electronics explores the trends and applications of wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors in the EV industry, the rapid adoption of SiC, and potential future of GaN. IDTechEx looks at the supply chain for EV power electronics, from raw material to automotive OEMs, for the incumbent Si IGBT and the disruptive SiC MOSFET. In a rapidly changing space where joint ventures and collaborations are advancing rapidly, IDTechEx covers developments in inverter technologies, 800V architectures, and the advantages of WBG for lower power applications in the onboard charger (OBC) and DC-DC converter. Forecasts are projected from 2026 to 2036, with the total market for power electronics set to exceed US$42 billion by 2036.

This report comprehensively examines advanced coatings technologies, including key developments, drivers and commercial activity throughout the coatings industry. It covers application technologies, alternative materials and key markets, including 10-year granular market forecasts. This report reveals insights into fire protection, EMI shielding, corrosion protection, dielectric, thermally conductive, self-healing, PFAS-free and IR reflective coating technologies. EV, aerospace, wind, data centers, telecommunications, oil & gas and electronics are among the markets covered.

This report provides critical insight into the fast-growing micro EV industry of electric two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and microcars. IDTechEx's report highlights critical sales trends across all major global markets. Key players and models are benchmarked, including analyses of battery technologies, motor power, and pricing. 20-year granular forecasts broken down by region, power class, and battery chemistry highlight how micro EVs will grow to be an over US$90 billion opportunity by 2046.

This report analyses thermal management approaches for electric vehicle batteries, motors, power electronics, and the vehicle as a whole. A deep dive is taken into OEM strategies, materials, fluids, and technologies. 10 year granular market forecasts are included segmented by technology.

IDTechEx's Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) Market Report 2026-2036 provides a detailed analysis of the transformation from legacy vehicle architectures to software-defined platforms. The report covers the rise of central compute and zonal architectures, SDV monetization models such as OTA updates and in-vehicle payments, and the integration of generative AI in next-gen vehicles. It also explores V2X technologies including C-V2X, DSRC, and 5G, with region-by-region regulatory insights and adoption forecasts. Forecasts span SDV hardware revenue, unit sales, and feature monetization through 2036. This report is essential for OEMs, Tier 1s, and mobility tech developers seeking to capitalize on the shift to connected, software-centric vehicle ecosystems.

This report analyses the trends and developments within advanced and next-generation Li-ion technologies, helping to provide clarity on the strengths, weaknesses, key players, addressable markets, and adoption outlooks for silicon anodes, Li-metal anodes, solid electrolytes, manganese rich cathodes, ultra high nickel NMC, alternative cathode synthesis routes, use of additives, new and optimised electrode and cell structures and designs, and battery pack and BMS developments.

IDTechEx's Passenger Car ADAS Market report provides a comprehensive analysis of the advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) market, covering L2, L2+, and L3 passenger vehicles from a technology and market perspective. The report offers deep insight into the technologies available from leading private vehicle OEMs, as well as the ADAS hardware and software suppliers that support these systems. Additionally, the report examines the ADAS functions included in these vehicles, analyzing their capabilities, market adoption trends, and regulatory landscape. Complete with a 20-year forecast, this report provides a regional breakdown of the passenger car ADAS market, with projections in US dollars and annual unit sales.

This report provides a holistic view of the fuel cell electric vehicle markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across all relevant vehicle segments (cars, light commercial vehicles, buses, medium and heavy-duty trucks) using historic data from 2020 to 2024, to forecast from 2025 to 2045. It compares the opportunities in each vehicle segment for fuel cell electric vehicles, leading to the global fuel cell electric vehicle market forecasted to exceed US$90 billion by 2045.

Despite a lower fire occurrence rate than combustion vehicles, fire safety is critical for electric vehicles and presents several material opportunities. This report considers the regulation and battery design trends and how this will impact fire protection materials such as ceramics, mica, aerogels, coatings, encapsulants, foams, compression pads, phase change materials, polymers, and more. Market forecasts are given in yearly mass demand and market value segmented by material and vehicle segment.

This report characterizes the electric vehicle market across 11 vehicle sectors with historic market data from 2010-2024 and market forecasts up to 2045. Battery demand and market value across all 11 sectors reveals significant opportunity for growth and investment, especially beyond the typical automotive sector.

Electric vehicles create demand for many materials. This report covers the demand created for materials required to construct battery cells and battery packs. Trends in battery chemistry, design, energy density, and cost are analyzed along with material utilization trends, to provide 29 separate material forecasts across the electric vehicle markets for cars, vans, trucks, buses, two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and microcars.

This report provides market and technical analysis for electric trucks, both medium-duty and heavy-duty. It uses historic data to forecast future trends, tracking key technologies such as motors, batteries, and charging infrastructure, as well as market information, to forecast the truck market in unit sales, US$, battery demand in GWh, and fuel cell demand in MW.

Giving EV batteries a second life maximizes their value, extends their lifetime before recycling, and contributes to a circular battery economy. This IDTechEx report provides forecasts and analyses on second-life EV battery repurposers and business models, automotive OEM activity and partnerships, end-of-life (EOL) battery diagnostics players, key markets, repurposing costs and automation, B2B marketplaces, regulations, EV battery technology trends, and techno-economic analysis vs first-life Li-ion battery energy storage systems (BESS).

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the silicon anode market. The report analyses material and technology solutions, market and player developments, and the cost impact of silicon anodes, provides a silicon anode production outlook, and forecasts demand by material type (low, medium, high silicon), application, and region.

This report provides critical analysis of the ever-growing electric light commercial vehicle (eLCV) industry. IDTechEx has assembled the most comprehensive database of battery-electric, plug-in hybrid, and fuel cell LCVs available, to reveal trends in market size and sales, battery technology, vehicle performance, and more. Granular 20-year forecasts demonstrate how the market will grow to over 11 million eLCV sales annually by 2045.

IDTechEx's Autonomous Vehicles Market report provides holistic coverage of the automotive industry and robotaxi sector from an autonomous driving technology perspective. The report gives deep insight into the technologies available from leading private vehicle OEMs and the state of commercial robotaxi development and deployment. The report is complete with a 20-year forecast of the automotive industry separated by region and SAE level, forecasted in US$ and annual unit sales.

This report characterizes the electric car markets, technologies, and players. The latest sales data and policy landscapes give context to the current status of the EV market globally. Historic market data from 2011- H1 2024, with market forecasts up to 2045. This report also assesses the latest technology trends and developments across the big 3 for EVs, li-ion batteries, motors, and power electronics. This report offers in-depth, global, comprehensive research on the electric car market, which is the largest single component of the transportation sector.

The rapidly growing electric vehicle market creates a huge demand for the supporting charging infrastructure across several regions and different power classes. Within this market, we are seeing trends around high-power charging, wireless charging, battery swapping, and V2X. This report addresses these trends within the markets for battery-electric or hybrid cars, vans, trucks and buses with OEM hardware benchmarking, CPO comparisons, and 10-year granular market forecasts.

This report takes a comprehensive look at the prospects of hydrogen and battery electric technologies for a range of airplane applications including general aviation, business jets and commercial airliners. For each one it evaluates how well hydrogen and battery technologies can meet the aircrafts duty-cycles, how they might impact total cost of ownership, and how carbon footprint is impacted, give different grids and different hydrogen sources. This culminates in a forecast for hydrogen and battery electric airplanes over until 2045. This report is ideal for understanding the challenges, prospects, companies, and strategies involved in the future of aviation.

This report provides key analysis of the trends in electric construction machines. Analysis of over 200 machines provides insight on the key technologies, total costs of ownership, battery sizing, vehicle performance, pricing, and more. Independent forecasts for sales reveal the electric construction machine market will grow to US$126 billion in 2044, highlighting the role electrification will play in the future of the construction industry.

This report characterizes the Roboshuttles and Autonomous Buses markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across several players in 15 countries provides a detailed analysis of the players and activities. Contextualized through historical sales data dating back to 2019, with regional granularity across China, Europe, the USA, and the rest of the World (RoW), and coverage market forecasts from 2024 to 2044. It reveals significant opportunity, with the Roboshuttles and Autonomous Buses markets forecast to grow to over US$67bn by 2044.

This report characterizes the Autonomous Trucks markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across more than 10 players in different countries, provides a detailed analysis of the players and activities. Contextualized through historical sales data dating back to 2019, with regional granularity across China, Europe, the USA, and the rest of the World (RoW), and coverage market forecasts from 2024 to 2044, it is the most comprehensive study compiled for this product area. It reveals significant opportunity, with the Autonomous Trucks markets forecast to grow to over US$120bn by 2044.

This report provides market and technical analysis for electric buses. This includes historic performance, market progress, technology, players, and market forecasts by drivetrain. This report includes market shares by OEM across key regions

This report provides key insights into the battery markets for electric construction, agriculture, and mining (CAM) vehicles. Analysis of over 200 products from turnkey battery suppliers and 200 CAM EVs offers understanding of vehicle requirements, suppliers' core technologies, and the suitability of battery technologies for electric CAM machines. The report considers 10 battery technologies including; LTO, sodium-ion, lithium-metal and more, evaluating how they meet the needs of 15 vehicle types. Included are granular 10-year forecasts for GWh battery demand and revenue (US$) by region, industry, and chemistry.

The report delves into the thermal management strategies employed in electric vehicle (EV) power electronics. It encompasses various aspects such as the thermal architecture within EV power semiconductor packaging, the materials (e.g., solder, silver sinter, copper sinter, etc.) utilized for die and substrate attachment, thermal interface materials, as well as cooling methods involving air, water, and oil. A thorough technological examination of die attach, substrate attach, and thermal interface materials (TIMs) utilized in SiC MOSFETs, Si IGBTs, and GaN technologies. It also provides market forecasts for TIMs in the EV power industry categorized by technology (Si, SiC, GaN) and component (Inverter, Onboard Charger, and DC-DC Converter). A number of commercial use cases are included in the report. With historical market data spanning from 2021 to 2023 and future projections extending from 2024 to 2034, this study offers a comprehensive understanding of thermal management in the EV power electronics sector. It underscores significant growth prospects, with the total market value of TIMs anticipated to surpass US$900 million by 2034.

This report assesses and analyzes key technologies, players and use-cases for off-grid EV charging. Solar Canopy charging, hydrogen generator charging, airborne wind energy charging as well as LNG/propane EV charging are explored in depth, with cost and emissions comparisons. It reveals significant opportunity in the context of grid expansion delays, with the off-grid hardware market set to reach US$16.6 billion by 2034.

IDTechEx's "Air Taxis: Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) Aircraft 2024-2044: Technologies, Players" report is designed to help companies understand the emerging urban air mobility market. Providing comprehensive analysis of eVTOL air taxis, from an assessment of the pros and cons of eVTOL aircraft design architectures, through to OEM players and opportunities in key enabling technologies. The report presents our TCO analysis of eVTOL operations and IDTechEx's independent 20-year forecasts for this transformative new market with considerable long-term potential.

'Electric Vehicles in Mining 2024-2044' provides key insights into the trends driving the electric mining vehicle industry. This report analyzes over 70 electric mining vehicles to provide understanding of total costs of ownership, performance, battery sizing, and chemistries over a wide range of vehicle types - with 20-year market forecasts segmented by vehicle type and region.

The report provides a comprehensive overview of the automotive display technology landscape, covering various types of displays and emerging trends. It delves into industry insights obtained from interviews and conferences, offering a SWOT analysis of key technologies. Additionally, it explores advancements beyond displays, including manufacturing requirements and component adaptations like windshield coatings. A 10-year market forecast is presented, encompassing diverse display types and technologies across global regions. Detailed evaluations of each technology's technical and commercial feasibility are provided. The report concludes with extensive company profiles, highlighting key technologies and product lines gleaned from interviews.

Autonomous driving and electrification are changing the automotive industry irrevocably. In addition to these megatrends, connected and software defined vehicles have recently shown opportunity for new and lucrative revenue streams, while in-cabin sensing is set to evolve automotive safety through new hardware based applications. This report provides a high level overview of all these new automotive technologies and forecasts a US$1.6 trillion opportunity in 2034. Learn which of these provides the greatest potential and whether services or hardware will dominate the market.

The electrification and automation of the automotive industry creates a new demand for copper in a range of applications. This report covers baseline copper consumption in vehicles and explains where copper is used in electric vehicles, where copper is used in autonomous vehicles, and how technology trends across the vehicle will impact future automotive copper consumption.

This report analyses the trends and developments to Li-ion cell and battery pack technology for electric vehicles by studying developments from both automotive OEMs and battery pack manufacturers serving non-car markets. Players and developments in battery management systems are also covered. Demand for Li-ion batteries is forecasted for electric cars, vans, trucks, 2-wheelers, buses.

The IDTechEx report 'Electric Boats & Ships 2024-2044' reveals the challenges and growth for electrification in the maritime sector. It finds that recreational boats are the largest market by volume, but the hybrid deep-sea sector will generate the most battery demand in MWh due to large battery system capacities/vessel and strong emissions policy drivers from the IMO and EU. The report provides granular 20-year forecasts in unit sales, battery demand (GWh) & battery market value (US$ bn) for electric ferry, electric cargo/container, electric Ro-Ro, electric cruise, electric OSV, electric tugboat, electric recreational boats by powerclass (<1kW, <12kW, >25kW), and shares technology analysis and price information on marine Li-ion battery systems & electric propulsion systems based on supplier interviews.

In this report IDTechEx assesses the global opportunities emerging for battery-electric (BEV) and hydrogen fuel cell (FC) trains as energy storage technologies advance rapidly. Granular 20-year forecasts include train deliveries, battery demand (GWh), fuel cell demand (MW) and market value (US$ billion) across locomotive (BEL, FEL), multiple unit (BMU, FMU), and shunter trains. The cost evolution of railroad batteries, FCs and green hydrogen is also explored to assess long-term feasibility.

This report provides holistic and deep coverage of semiconductor usage for a new era of vehicles. Understand the key trends within enabling technologies such as radar, LiDAR, cameras, inverters, battery management systems, MCUs and SOCs and how they impact future semiconductor demand. The report's granular 10-year forecasts include semiconductor wafer demand, semiconductor material demand including Si, SiC, GaN, InGaAs and more, as well as revenue through wafer production in US$.

Fuel cells (FC) show great promise for maritime transport due to high efficiencies and potential for zero-emissions operation using green fuels. 'Fuel Cell Boats & Ships 2023-2033: PEMFC, SOFC, Hydrogen, Ammonia, LNG' reviews the latest FC technologies and materials, revealing that green hydrogen PEMFC and ammonia SOFC markets will grow rapidly at 35% CAGR. Bottom-up forecasts utilize primary research from OEM & supplier interviews detailing the latest pipelines.

Efficient, automatic wireless charging of electric vehicles aims to revolutionise the EV charging experience. This technology can be used in static and dynamic applications, across various vehicle segments offering an opportunity for various auto OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. A ground-based transmitting pad, a vehicle-based receiving pad, and power cabinets are the enabling system components. This report covers the componentry, player profiles, commercial deployments, global standards, and granular forecasts.