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Wireless Charging 2016-2026: Phones & Small Electronics, Electric Cars & Other Vehicles

Contactless, inductive charging: consumer & medical electronics and vehicles for land, water & air

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This unique report reflects the new reality that wireless charging is now one subject from phones and medical devices to vehicles. This is because it increasingly involves the same technologies, locations and companies. Why are people so enthusiastic when they experience ubiquitous phone charging? How will the standards battles be resolved? Why will the planned move to hired vehicles and autonomous vehicles drive more demand for wireless charging? Is a compatible set of standards emerging for vehicles? What will sales be from 2016-2026 for mobile device and for vehicle wireless charging? It is all here.
 
Only a global up-to-date view makes sense in this fast-moving subject. Therefore the multilingual PhD level IDTechEx analysts have travelled intensively in 2015 to report the latest research and expert opinions and to analyse how the markets and technologies will move over the coming decade. Original IDTechEx tables and infographics pull together the analysis.
 
Users of mobile phones and the new connected wearables loathe the fact that they need recharging before a recharging point can be found. They urgently seek ubiquitous wireless charging from the car dashboard to the table in the coffee shop: no hassle top up. Progress is now rapid due to easy retrofit and huge numbers of phones fitting it as original equipment. Standards battles are being resolved by market adoption and merger.
 
Electric vehicles, whether plug-in hybrid or pure electric are selling well now. That covers land, water and air, off-road and on-road, on water and underwater. That brings to the fore the problems of dirt, weight, vandalism and safety with plugging in so auto makers, for example, plan wireless charging in many cars and buses from 2017 underwritten by one single set of standards being achieved soon.
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1.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1.1.Definition and overview
1.1.Basic one-on-one WC
1.1.Forecasts and timeline 2016-2036 for wireless charging of portable electronics, consumer, medical, industrial
1.2.Forecasts and timeline for wireless charging on electric vehicles, land, water, air
1.2.Qualcomm vision
1.2.Wireless charging for portable electronics
1.3.Wireless charging for electric vehicles
1.3.IDTechEx vision for clean electricity from free ambient energy powering semi-dynamic and dynamic charging at point of use
1.3.Mobile phone sales projected smart vs other 2015-2026 in sales globally (in billions rounded)
1.4.Tablet, notebook and monitor sales globally numbers million 2015-2026
1.4.NFC adoption
1.4.Technology
1.5.Technical options for static WC
1.5.Forecasts and timeline 2016-2036 for wireless charging of portable electronics, consumer, medical, industrial
1.5.IDTechEx forecasts for electric vehicles, hybrid and pure electric, plug-in and not plug-in. Those most likely to fit wireless charging are shown in green.
1.6.SAE six levels of charging
1.6.Forecasts and timeline for wireless charging on electric vehicles, land, water, air
1.6.Dynamic charging
1.6.1.Off road trials for electric highways technology
1.7.Forecasts
1.7.The trends of power needs and use of energy harvesting and wireless charging to meet them, shown as a function of power requirement
1.7.Number, hardware unit value ex-factory excluding any power storage and total market value rounded of contactless on-road vehicle charging stations sold worldwide in thousands 2015-2026
1.8.Global market value of the three levels of car charging station 2015-2026 in $ millions
1.8.Mobile phone sales projected smart vs other 2015-2026 in sales globally (in billions rounded)
1.8.NFC model
1.9.Market sweet spot
1.9.Tablet, notebook and monitor sales globally numbers million 2015-2026
1.9.Benefits and challenges of today's WC technology vs contact methods of charging small devices.
1.10.Market dynamics of low vs high power static WC
1.10.Number, hardware unit value ex-factory excluding any power storage and total market value rounded of contactless on-road vehicle charging stations sold worldwide in thousands 2015-2026
1.10.Threats
1.11.Market forecasts
1.11.Global market value of the three levels of car charging station 2015-2026 in $ millions
1.11.Comparisons of low vs high power contactless charging
1.12.News in 2016
1.12.Market value for WPT for consumer electronics and electric vehicles in 2022
1.12.Forecast for high power: electric vehicles
1.13.Market by territory
1.14.Market dynamics
1.15.Other comparisons
1.16.News in 2016
2.WIRELESS CHARGING OF PORTABLE DEVICES: LATEST SITUATION
2.1.Main trends
2.1.Why we need wireless charging
2.2.WPC situation September 2015
2.2.Misleading terminology
2.3.Challenges
2.3.WPC adoption forecast
2.4.Innovation with Qi
2.4.Real problems
2.5.WPC program to have a longer range option by end 2015.
2.6.Comparison of options
2.7.Multi-standard solutions
2.8.Regulatory perception and Qi low frequency compared with higher frequency proposed by others.
2.9.The big picture
3.INTRODUCTION
3.1.History
3.1.Examples of A4WP backers
3.1.Wireless power transfer technologies
3.2.Qi compared with Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) merged with Power Matters Alliance (PMA)
3.2.Wireless power transfer
3.2.1.Adoption - who wins
3.3.Qi the winning specification for personal electronics - so far
3.3.1.Competitor
3.4.Comparisons of Qi with the leading competitor
3.5.Apple and Qi
3.6.Wireless vehicle charging
4.WIRELESS CHARGING FOR VEHICLES WHEN STATIONARY
4.1.Introduction
4.1.Proliferation of power electronics in EVs. Newer additions shown in large font
4.2.WiTricity slide on standards bodies collaborating to create a single compatible vehicle set for WC
4.2.Standards for vehicle WC
4.3.Recent activity
4.3.Oak Ridge National Laboratory's 20-kilowatt wireless charging system features 90 percent efficiency
4.3.1.BMW, Germany Nanyang Singapore
4.3.2.Fraunhofer wireless discharging, lightweighting, dynamic
4.3.3.Hyundai-Kia Korea: Mojo USA
4.3.4.Oak Ridge National Laboratory's 20-kilowatt wireless charging for electric vehicles
4.3.5.PRIMOVE Belgium
4.3.6.Yutong and ZTE China
4.4.The new electric buses in Bruges, Belgium
5.DYNAMIC CHARGING OF VEHICLES
5.1.Introduction
5.1.Highways Agency assessment of in-road inductive charging of vehicles September 2015
5.2.Priority lane dynamic charging
5.2.Road maintenance concerns
5.3.Semi dynamic charging
5.3.KAIST OLEVs
5.4.Dynamic and static charging of the On Line Electric Vehicle OLEV bus servicing the KAIST campus in Daejon Korea.
5.4.Fully dynamic charging
5.4.1.Drayson Racing UK
5.4.2.Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
5.4.3.University of Tokyo Japan
5.4.4.Utah State University USA
5.5.Timeline
5.5.Proximity charged tram
5.5.1.Volvo Sweden
5.6.Renewable electricity generation on motorways
5.6.Test track schematic
5.7.Test track ghost diagram
6.ALTERNATIVES TO WIRELESS CHARGING FOR VEHICLES
6.1.Electric vehicles that are never charged externally
6.1.Examples of vehicles with solar traction power and no need for charging
6.1.1.Introduction
6.1.2.Options for energy autonomous vehicles
6.2.Robotic charging
6.2.Proliferation of actual and potential energy harvesting in land vehicles
6.3.Proliferation of actual and potential energy harvesting in marine vehicles
6.3.Gantries and catenaries
6.4.Robot arms
6.4.Proliferation of actual and potential energy harvesting in airborne vehicles
6.4.1.DBT-CEV France
6.4.2.PowerHydrant USA
6.4.3.Tesla solid metal snake USA
6.4.4.Volkswagen Germany
6.5.Examples of gantry charging for buses. Top ABB TOSA, next Proterra.
6.6.PowerHydrant presentation at IDTechEx event 2015
6.7.Tesla solid metal snake
7.EXAMPLES OF INTERVIEWS 2015
7.1.BYD China
7.1.WAVE bus system
7.2.Range difficulties with pure electric industrial vehicles
7.2.Hevo Power USA, WAVE USA, WiTricity USA
7.3.Idaho State Laboratory USA
7.3.Proterra view on WC vs other charging of buses today.
7.4.Qualcomm positioning
7.4.Infineon USA/Germany
7.5.PowerHydrant USA
7.5.Qualcomm car coils
7.6.WiTricity overview
7.6.Qualcomm USA
7.6.1.Wireless Charging: Invitation Only Meeting 26 June 2015
7.7.WiTricity IP position
7.7.University of Tokyo, Japan
7.8.WiTricity USA
7.8.Key extracts from the WiTricity presentation at the IDTechEx even in Berlin 2015
7.9.XALT Energy USA
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Wireless charging will be on almost all mobile phones and millions of cars by 2026

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Figures 48
Forecasts to 2026
 

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