Large and Advanced Battery Technology and Markets

Report Highlights

The global large-and-advanced battery market was worth $15.3 billion in 2009 and $16.7 billion in 2012. BCC projects a market of more than $21 billion by 2017, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.6% between 2012 and 2017.

Report Includes

• An overview of the market for large and advanced battery technology, with discussion of first-generation, next-generation, specialty, and developmental systems.
• Analyses of market trends, with data from 2001 through 2012, and projections of compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) through 2017.
• Definitions of the various systems, such as first-generation (lead-acid,  nickel-cadmium), next-generation (nickel-metal hydride, lithium-ion, lithium-polymer), specialty (silver-zinc secondary, silver-cadmium, nickel-hydrogen, nickel-zinc, metal-air), and developmental (sodium-sulfur, high-temperature lithium, redox and flow, nickel-iron,  calcium-metal sulfide, sodium-metal chloride, lithium-sulfur).
• Identification of established markets, such as: motive power, portable product power, stationary power and hybrid electric vehicles.

Report Scope

This report begins with a discussion of general battery technology.  The following kinds of large-and-advanced batteries are discussed:

• First-generation large-and-advanced battery systems.
• Lead-acid batteries.
• Nickel-cadmium batteries.
• Next-generation large-and-advanced battery systems.
• Nickel metal hydride batteries.
• Lithium-ion batteries.
• Lithium-polymer batteries.
• Specialty large-and-advanced battery systems.
• Silver-zinc secondary batteries.
• Silver-cadmium secondary batteries.
• Nickel-hydrogen secondary batteries.
• Nickel-zinc batteries.
• Metal-air batteries.
• Developmental large-and-advanced battery systems.
• Sodium-sulfur batteries.
• High-temperature lithium batteries.
• Redox and flow batteries.
• Nickel-iron batteries.
• Calcium-metal sulfide batteries.
• Sodium-metal chloride batteries.
• Lithium-sulfur batteries.

Next, the following established markets are considered in this report:

• Motive power: Traction, marine and aviation.
• Portable product power: Laptops, tablets, smartphones, hand tools and lawn care products, military/aerospace.
• Stationary power: Uninterruptible power supplies, emergency lighting, remote power, small-scale alternative energy storage.
• Hybrid electric vehicles.

Large-and-advanced batteries also will be used in the following developing markets:

• Plug-in vehicles.
• Utility load leveling and large-scale alternative energy storage.
• Developmental military/aerospace applications.

These market sectors are defined, leading companies are identified and the markets analyzed (including a five-year market forecast).  Finally, large-and advanced-battery companies are outlined in the Company Profiles chapter.

Analyst Credentials

Donald Saxman is an industry-recognized expert in gas separation and oil recovery through carbon dioxide injection. His experience in both markets and technologies for corrosion inhibitors, and industrial gas end uses informs his research. While working for Zellweger Analytics as a subcontractor to Boeing Aerospace, he was quality assurance manager for the design, manufacture and testing of an organic carbon monitor for the International Space Station and its water recycling system. Saxman has worked with BCC Research as analyst and author for more than 20 years, and his reports include market research on lithium batteries and solid oxide fuel cells. He holds a bachelor's degree in geology from the University of Indiana.