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This new study on Molten Salt Solar Energy Thermal Storage and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP): Market Shares and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2010-2016, has 309 pages, 103 tables and figures.

Large solar farms are part of the answer to implementing energy generated from capture of heat from the sun. Utility scale systems are complex implementations of aggregated capture devices. The value of utility scale build out is the sheer size of the projects.

It is easier to implement one large project in a controlled area than to implement multiple medium size project to achieve the same level of power generation. Molten salt solar energy storage systems implement utility scale solar electricity systems. The large scale provides replacement for coal systems and supplements nuclear systems that are not feasible in many locations. Solar concentrators are able to run conventional steam generators, leveraging existing technology for renewable energy electricity use. Corrosion is an issue. The pipes that carry the molten salt need to be corrosion resistant, otherwise they need to be replaced every year. Heat is another issue. The high heat of the salt may cause chemical decomposition of the solution, creating the need to replace the solution at relatively short intervals.

There is growing global demand for cost-effective and reliable solar power. Molten salt storage and solar electricity generation by use of steam turbines are poised to achieve significant growth. The economies of scale have not yet kicked in and will do so after 100 projects have been built out. The technology promises to be significant because the projects generate so much electricity.

Solar concentrators are efficient and leverage existing steam generation technology. The technology will succeed far faster and be far more wide spread that the vendor executives are now predicting. With rising prices of oil and the Gulf of Mexico oil well disaster, solar power begins to look good, because it is a sustainable energy source. Aggregation of electricity generated from solar panels placed on commercial roofs is another aspect of utility scale electricity generation. The commercial roof electricity can be sold from electricity substations to the locality for use in data centers, powering electric vehicles, and general electricity usage.

Solar energy market driving forces relate to the opportunity to harness a cheap, long lasting, powerful energy source. Solar energy can be used to create electricity in huge quantity. Solar panels are mounted in a weatherproof frame, are mounted in areas with direct exposure to the sun to generate electricity from sunlight.

Solar power systems are comprised of solar modules, related power electronics, and other components. Solar panels are used in residential, commercial and industrial applications. Solar compositions of arrays that comprise electric utility grids appear to be the wave of the future.

The demand for solar energy is dependent on a lower prices for solar and higher prices for petroleum. A combination of economies of scale being realized in the manufacturing along with increases in the current prices for petroleum will drive solar energy adoption.

The overall solar market has attained enough critical mass to boost competitive technologies of thin film and monocrystalline, polycrystalline, and multicrystalline silicon based systems.

Concentrated thermal solar molten salt storage units at a level below $100 million in 2009 are anticipated to reach $13.6 billion by 2016. Vendors are well positioned to gain significant market share over the next five years as existing products are tuned as second and third generation products to achieve more economies of scale.

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Molten Salt Solar Executive Summary

Molten Salt Storage of Solar Energy Executive Summary ES-1
Molten Salt Utility Scale Storage of Electricity From Solar Energy ES-1
Nanotechnology Promises To Be A Significant Aspect Of Solar Storage Market Evolution ES-2
Global Demand For Cost-Effective And Reliable Solar Power ES-2
Molten Salt Solar Utility Scale Steam Turbine Market Shares ES-3
Molten Salt Solar Utility Scale Energy Market Forecast ES-5

Molten Salt Solar Market Description And Market Dynamics

1. Molten Salt Thermal Storage and 1-1
1.1 Molten Salt Stores Solar Energy As Heat 1-1
1.1.1 Using Mirrors To Concentrate Sun Energy 1-2
1.1.2 Compressing Air Or Pumping Water Uphill To Store Sun’s Energy 1-3
1.1.3 Round-Trip Efficiency 1-3
1.2 Molten Salt As Solar Heat Battery 1-3
1.2.1 Salt Storage System Potential Issues 1-5
1.3 Utility-Scale Thermal Concentrating Solar 1-6
1.3.1 Climate Change Is Predicted To Raise Global Sea Levels 1-8
1.4 Nuclear Power Plants 1-9
1.4.1 Impact of Changing Water Supplies 1-10
1.5 Power Plans 1-11
1.6 Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) 1-12
1.6.1 Components Of A Concentrated Solar Power CSP System 1-13
1.6.2 Parabolic Trough 1-14
1.6.3 Parabolic Dish 1-15
1.6.4 Central Tower 1-17
1.6.5 Solar Furnace 1-19
1.6.6 Solar Radiation Types Of Receiver 1-20
1.7 Uses Of CSP Technology 1-21
1.8 Decentralised Generation 1-22
1.9 Solar Air Conditioning 1-23
1.9.1 Solar Air Conditioning Sorbent 1-23
1.9.2 Refrigerant Circulation Systems Differentiated Processes 1-24
1.10 Go Solar California 1-27
1.10.1 Power The World From Desert 1-27
1.11 Key Elements In A Solar Cell 1-28
1.11.1 Emcore Magnifies Solar Energy 1-30
1.11.2 CPV Utility Positioning 1-31

Molten Salt Solar Market Shares And Market Forecasts

2. Molten Salt Storage of Solar Energy Market Shares and Market Forecasts -21
2.1 Molten Salt Utility Scale Storage of Electricity From Solar Energy 2-1
2.1.1 Nanotechnology Promises To Be A Significant Aspect Of Solar Storage Market Evolution 2-2
2.1.2 Global Demand For Cost-Effective And Reliable Solar Power 2-2
2.2 Molten Salt Solar Utility Scale Steam Turbine Market Shares 2-3
2.2.1 Siemens’ Environmental Portfolio Revenue 2-7
2.3 Molten Salt Solar Utility Scale Energy Market Participants 2-10
2.3.1 United Technologies 2-10
2.3.2 Solar Reserve Partnered With United Technologies 2-11
2.3.3 United Technologies Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne 2-11
2.3.4 Abengoa Solar Commercial Operation of Solnova 3 2-12
2.3.5 Areva / Ausra 2-13
2.3.6 BrightSource Energy Ivanpah project 2-13
2.3.7 GE Energy 2-14
2.3.8 Schott Solar Utility-Scale Thermal Concentrating Solar 2-15
2.4 Molten Salt Solar Utility Scale Energy Market Forecast 2-16
2.5 Solar Steam Generators Market Forecast 2-19
2.5.1 Concentrating Linear Reflectors 2-22
2.5.2 Solar Thermal Molten Salt Storage Electricity Forecasts 2-22
2.6 Molten Salt Solar Storage Regional Analysis 2-29

Molten Salt Solar Product Description

3 Molten Salt Solar Storage and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) 1
3.1 Abengoa SA 1
3.1.1 Abengoa Solar Commercial Operation of Solnova 3 3
3.2 Areva / Ausra 8
3.2.1 Areva New Strategy 9
3.3 BrightSource Energy 10
3.3.1 Brightsource Energy $1.4 Billion In Loan Guarantees From U.S. Department Of Energy 11
3.3.2 BrightSource Energy Ivanpah Project 12
3.3.3 BrightSource Energy Luz Power Tower 550 (LPT 550) Technology 14
3.3.4 Brightsource Energy Reduced Footprint Mitigation For Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System 15
3.3.5 BrightSource Energy Mirrors 16
3.3.6 BrightSource Energy Heliostats 17
3.3.7 BrightSource Energy Heliostat Control System 19
3.3.8 BrightSource EnergyTower and Boiler 21
3.3.9 BrightSource Energy Power Block 23
3.4 United Technologies 24
3.4.1 United Technologies Hamilton Sundstrand Unit 25
3.4.2 United Technologies Hamilton Sundstrand 27
3.5 Solar Millennium Salts To Replace Oil In Parabolic Trough Power Plants 29
3.6 SolarReserve Power Towers 30
3.6.1 Solar Thermal With Molten Salt Energy Storage: SolarReserve Heads to Nevada 31
3.6.2 Solar Reserve Partnered With United Technologies 31
3.7 Siemens Energy Sector / Renewable Energy Division 33
3.7.1 Siemens Solar-Thermal Power Plant 33
3.7.2 Siemens Global Market Leader For Turbines In Solar Thermal Parabolic Trough Power Plants 34
3.7.3 Siemens Solar-Thermal Power Plant: Putting the Desert to Use 35
3.7.4 Siemens 123-MW Steam Turbine-Generator For Solar Thermal Power Plant In California 36

3.7.5 Siemens Solar Efficiency 38
3.7.6 Siemens Next-Generation Solar UVAC Receiver Increases Thermal Output Of Power Plants 39
3.8 Asahi Glass 42
3.8.1 Asahi Glass Flexible Solar Cells 42
3.9 GE 46
3.10 Hitachi 47

Molten Salt Solar Storage Technology

4. Molten Salt Thermal Storage and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Technology 4-1
4.1 Molten Salt 4-1
4.1.1 Salt Storage System Potential Issues 4-2
4.2 Molten Salts Store Solar Energy As Heat 4-3
4.2.1 Salt System Efficient At Heat Storage 4-3
4.3 Parabolic Trough Thermal Energy Storage Technology 4-4
4.3.1 Parabolic Trough 4-5
4.3.2 Thermal Energy Storage Systems 4-6
4.3.3 Thermal Energy Storage System 4-7
4.3.4 Single-Tank Thermocline 4-8
4.3.5 Direct Molten-Salt Heat Transfer Fluid 4-9
4.4 Thermal Stability Of Imidazolium Salts 4-9
4.5 Concrete Thermal Energy Storage Media 4-10
4.5.1 Phase-Change Materials 4-11
4.6 Solar Cells Achieve Power Without Maintenance 4-13
4.6.1 Internal Electrostatic Field 4-14
4.6.2 Converting Sunlight to Electricity 4-14
4.7 Thin Film Material Layers 4-16

Molten Salt Solar Company Profiles

5. Molten Salt Solar Generated Electricity Storage Company Profiles 5-1
5.1 Abengoa 5-1
5.1.1 Abengoa and Climate Change 5-2
5.2 Acciona Solar Power 5-10
5.3 Applied Materials 5-12
5.3.1 Applied Materials Segment Analysis 5-13
5.3.2 Applied Materials Silicon Segment 5-13
5.3.3 Applied Three-Dimensional (3D) ICs 5-15
5.3.4 Applied Materials Deposition 5-16
5.3.5 Applied Materials Atomic Layer Deposition 5-16
5.3.6 Applied Materials Chemical Vapor Deposition 5-17
5.3.7 Applied Materials Applied Producer CVD Platform 5-17
5.3.8 Applied Materials Low k Dielectric Films — 5-18
5.3.9 Applied Materials Lithography-Enabling Solutions 5-18
5.3.10 Applied Materials Gap Fill Films — 5-19
5.3.11 Applied Materials Strain Engineering Solutions 5-19
5.3.12 Applied Materials Epitaxial Deposition 5-20
5.3.13 Applied Materials Polysilicon Deposition — 5-20
5.3.14 Applied Materials Tungsten Deposition — 5-20
5.3.15 Applied Materials Physical Vapor Deposition 5-21
5.3.16 Applied Materials Etch 5-22
5.3.17 Applied Materials Rapid Thermal Processing 5-23
5.3.18 Applied Materials Chemical Mechanical Planarization 5-24
5.3.19 Applied Materials Metrology and Wafer Inspection 5-24
5.3.20 Applied Materials Critical Dimension and Defect Review Scanning Electron Microscopes (CD-SEMs and DR-SEMs) 5-24
5.3.21 Applied Materials Wafer Inspection 5-25
5.3.22 Applied Materials Mask Making 5-26
5.3.23 Applied Materials Display Segment 5-27
5.3.24 Applied Global Services Segment 5-27
5.3.25 Applied Materials Fab Services — 5-28
5.3.26 Applied Films Vacuum Coating Technologies 5-28
5.3.27 Applied Materials Energy and Environmental Solutions Segment 5-28
5.4 Areva / Ausra 5-33
5.4.1 AREVA Leads Global Nuclear Power Industry 5-34
5.5 Asahi Glass Co Ltd 5-35
5.5.1 Asahi Glass Fuel Cell 5-37
5.5.2 Asahi Glass Fuel Cells Close To Practical Use 5-38
5.5.3 Asahi Glass Fuel Cells In Daily Life In 2010 5-39
5.5.4 Asahi Glass Chemicals Business as Core Business to the AGC Group 5-39
5.5.5 Asahi Glass ETFE Film With High Transparency And Flexibility 5-42
5.5.6 AGC Asahi GlassRevenue 5-43
5.5.7 Asahi Glass Revenue 5-49
5.6 Battelle 5-54
5.7 BrightSource Energy 5-54
5.7.1 BrightSource Energy $1.4 billion In Loan Guarantees From The U.S. Department of Energy 5-55
5.7.2 BrightSource Energy Ivanpah Project: Clean Energy, Union Jobs, Environmentally-Responsible Design 5-56
5.7.3 BrightSource Energy Luz Power Tower 550 (LPT 550) Technology 5-57
5.7.4 Brightsource Energy $150 Million Of Equity Financing 5-58
5.8 Corning 5-59
5.8.1 Corning Display Technologies Segment 5-59
5.8.2 Corning Revenue 5-61
5.8.3 Corning Display Technologies Segment 5-64
5.8.4 Corning Telecommunications Segment 5-65
5.8.5 Corning Environmental Technologies Segment 5-66
5.8.6 Corning Specialty Materials Segment 5-66
5.8.7 Corning Life Sciences Segment 5-67
5.9 Directed Vapor Technology 5-67
5.9.1 Directed Vapor Deposition Next Generation Coating Technology 5-67
5.10 du Pont 5-69
5.10.1 DuPont 5-69
5.10.2 DuPont™ Kapton® 5-72
5.10.3 DuPont™ Kapton® Polyimide Films 5-72
5.10.4 DuPont Teonex 5-75
5.11 GE Energy 5-76
5.11.1 GE Steam Turbines to Boost Output, Efficiency of Saudi Electricity Company’s Qurayyah Power Plant 5-76
5.11.2 GE Emissions Testing Team Becomes Early Adopter of Future EPA Standards 5-78
5.11.3 GE Smart Grid Technologies Transform Ireland’s Energy 5-78
5.12 Hitachi 5-79
5.12.1 Hitachi America 5-82
5.12.2 Hitachi America, Ltd. Focusing On Smart Grid Energy Storage for Solar Farms 5-83
5.12.3 Hitachi Long Life Lead Acid Batteries 5-84
5.13 SCHOTT Solar 5-85
5.13.1 Schott Electronic Packaging Gmbh 5-89
5.13.2 Schott Ag Flat Glass 5-93
5.14 SEIA: 5-95
5.15 Siemens 5-95
5.15.1 Siemens Business Areas 5-97
5.15.2 Siemens Steam Turbine-Generator to England – Delivery Scheduled In 13 Months 5-100
5.15.3 Siemens Energy Sector 5-102
5.15.4 Siemens Revenue 5-103
5.15.5 Siemens’ Worldwide Network 5-103
5.16 United Technologies / SolarReserve 5-105
5.16.1 United Technologies 5-106
5.16.2 United Technologies / Hamilton Sundstrand 5-109
5.16.3 Hamilton Sundstrand Technologically Advanced Aerospace And Industrial Products 5-111
5.16.4 United Technologies Revenue 5-113

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Dallas, TX: ReportsandReports announce it Will Utility Scale Solar Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2010-2016 Market Research Report in its Store.

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This new study on Utility Scale Solar Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2010-2016 has 690 pages, 105 tables and figures. Large solar farms are part of the answer to implementing energy generated from capture of heat from the sun. Utility scale systems are complex implementations of aggregated capture devices. The value of utility scale build out is the sheer size of the projects. It is easier to implement one large project in a controlled area than to implement multiple medium size projects to achieve the same level of power generation.

Solar energy market driving forces relate to the opportunity to harness a cheap, long lasting, powerful energy source. Solar energy can be used to create electricity in huge quantity. Solar panels are mounted in a weatherproof frame, are mounted in areas with direct exposure to the sun to generate electricity from sunlight.

Solar power systems are comprised of solar modules, related power electronics, and other components. Solar panels are used in residential, commercial and industrial applications. Solar compositions of arrays that comprise electric utility grids appear to be the wave of the future. Other solar systems are concentrating systems that leverage thermal transport of heated fluids and utilize traditional steam generators. The demand for solar energy is dependent on a lower prices for solar and higher prices for petroleum. A combination of economies of scale being realized in the manufacturing along with increases in the current prices for petroleum will drive solar energy adoption.

The overall solar market has attained enough critical mass to boost competitive technologies of thin film and monocrystalline, polycrystalline, and multicrystalline silicon based systems. Concentrating systems implemented in the desert use molten salt to store heat for use at night and when the sun is not shining.

SOLAR ENERGY MARKET DRIVING FORCES

- Achievement of utility scale grid parity

- Lower cost of solar energy than war to defend oil position

- Government incentives for solar power

- Grid parity of wind energy sources to supplement solar

- Increasing cost of fossil fuels

- Supply constraints

- Desire for energy security

- Growing awareness of the advantages of solar power

- Solar peak energy generation advantage

- Fuel risk advantage

- Scalability

- Reliability

- Environmental friendliness

- Thin film batteries to store energy when sun is down

- Energy density increase of 40,000 with solid state thin film batteries

- Advances in technologies making solar power more cost-efficient

- Large market among underserved populations in rural areas of developing countries with little or no access to electricity

Large solar farms are more popular initially, but solar is anticipated to be built out on commercial roof tops in increased quantity. The electricity generated will be fed to local substations and distributed to homes from there.

There is growing global demand for cost-effective and reliable solar power. Molten salt storage and solar electricity generation by use of steam turbines are poised to achieve significant growth. The economies of scale have not yet kicked in and will do so after 100 projects have been built out. The technology promises to be significant because the projects generate so much electricity.

Solar concentrators are efficient and leverage existing steam generation technology. The technology will succeed far faster and be far more wide spread that the vendor executives are now predicting. With rising prices of oil and the Gulf of Mexico oil well disaster, solar power begins to look good, because it is a sustainable energy source. Aggregation of electricity generated from solar panels placed on commercial roofs is another aspect of utility scale electricity generation. The commercial roof electricity can be sold from electricity substations to the locality for use in data centers, powering electric vehicles, and general electricity usage.

Solar energy market driving forces relate to the opportunity to harness a cheap, long lasting, powerful energy source. Solar energy can be used to create electricity in huge quantity. Solar panels are mounted in a weatherproof frame, are mounted in areas with direct exposure to the sun to generate electricity from sunlight.

Solar power systems are comprised of solar modules, related power electronics, and other components. Solar panels are used in residential, commercial and industrial applications. Solar compositions of arrays that comprise electric utility grids appear to be the wave of the future.

The demand for solar energy is dependent on lower prices for solar and higher prices for petroleum. A combination of economies of scale being realized in the manufacturing along with increases in the current prices for petroleum will drive solar energy adoption.

The overall solar market has attained enough critical mass to boost competitive technologies of thin film and monocrystalline, polycrystalline, and multicrystalline silicon based systems.

Utility solar storage units at a level below $10.5 billion in 2009 are anticipated to reach $84.6 billion by 2016. Existing solar products are tuned to the scale needed by utility companies and the cost structure demanded by grid parity. As second and third generation products are used to achieve more economies of scale markets will continue to grow rapidly.

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Dallas, TX: ReportsandReports announce it Will Tomorrow’s apparel industry: products, markets, and processes – forecasts to 2016 Market Research Report in its Store.

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This latest just-style report is a think piece about the future of the apparel industry. It is intended to encourage apparel industry executives to consider what is going to shape future products, markets and processes in the apparel industry.

In order to do this, forecasts have been made about future trends in what is, by definition, a very fast and continuously changing industry, one which feeds and lives on change. Areas covered include: future merchandise trends; market and distribution evolution; the supply chain; future sourcing and production; political and government influences; ethics, Fairtrade and CSR; technology and systems.

Use this report to analyse the effect the downturn has had on the apparel industry and identify the likely trends out to 2016.

Offering historic and forecast trends for regional markets, sales by product group, by distribution type, wholesale market values, and production values, this report is an essential guide for you to assess what landscape your business will likely move into over the next seven years.

Chapter 1 Introduction and hypothesis

This chapter sets the scene for how the apparel industry has evolved, commenting upon fully automated clothing production and parallels drawn between other manufacturing industries' approaches to automation and how this migrated to apparel.

When this is conjoined with the pressure of fast fashion retailing and technological advances in the supply chain, it becomes both tempting and plausible to believe in an apparel industry that supplies small quantities locally very quickly.

So, why is this not the norm in today’s apparel manufacturing industry? Why are there still very large, small component based factories producing very large orders in very large batches of standardised product? This report addresses these issues. It also forecasts the trends in the apparel industry and discusses the issues that will shape it.

Chapter 2 Forecast methodology discusses how just-style arrived at the report's forecast (and historic) numbers for Market-, Product-, Distribution-, Industry- and Production-trends.

Chapters 3 through to Chapter 8 contain trend forecasts for the above sectors of the apparel industry. Each chapter contains market value from 2007 to 2016, together with scenario forecasts with commentary and analysis of the data.

Chapter 9 Tomorrow’s apparel industry: the arguments

Here, the author sums up key points as to where the apparel industry may be heading, based on the analysis of the report's data findings.

Chapter 10 Political and government influences

Issues discussed include the multi-fibre agreement, DR-CAFTA, the US textile industry versus China, the EU directive on clothing recycling, and Australian federal funding for TCF.

Chapter 11 Ethics, Fairtrade and corporate social responsibility

The purpose of this chapter is to look at the actual effects of these three business practices on the current and future structure of the apparel industry.

Chapter 12 Technology and systems

If neither government interventions nor corporate social responsibility are to be the drivers of change in the apparel industry, a third contender is technology. This chapter looks at where the new manufacturing technologies are.

Chapter 13 Blue skies thinking: likely and unlikely future scenarios for the apparel industry

Fitting for a report looking to the future, this chapter suggests areas that may (or may not) significantly influence and affect the apparel industry in the near future. Topics include: personalisation, rejection of the throw-away society, smart clothes, electronics and textiles, individual deliveries and the decline of shops, local manufacturing, changes caused by government legislation, and totally new fibres and fabrics.

Table Of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction and hypothesis

Demassification

Fully automated clothing production

The second Toyota system

Hypothesis

Chapter 2 Forecast methodology

Caution

Definition of apparel

Methodology for market forecasts

Methodology for the other forecasts

Chapter 3 The market before and during the current downturn

The market in the recent past

The market in the current downturn

The market: likely future scenarios

Chapter 4 Recent merchandise trends and product changes

The product mix in the recent past

The product mix in the current downturn

The product mix: likely future scenarios

Chapter 5 Marketing and distribution evolution, before and during the current downturn

Distribution in the recent past

Distribution in the current downturn

Distribution: likely future scenarios

Chapter 6 The supply chain in the apparel industry

Consumers

Retailers

Brands and wholesalers

Branded and external manufacturers

Fabric and other material suppliers

Value added in the supply chain

Chapter 7 The industry before and during the current downturn

Wholesale values

The industry in the recent past

The industry in the current downturn

The industry: likely future scenarios

Chapter 8 Sourcing and production before and during the current downturn

Sourcing and production in the recent past

Sourcing and production in the current downturn

The industry: likely future scenarios

Chapter 9 Tomorrow’s apparel industry: the arguments

The status of the apparel industry worldwide in numbers

Chapter 10 Political and government influences

The multi-fibre agreement

Other government interventions

DR-CAFTA

US textile industry versus China

EU directive on clothing recycling

Australian federal funding for TCF

Chapter 11 Ethics, Fairtrade and corporate social responsibility

The case for and against

Low wages in Sri Lanka

Dumping chemical waste in Africa

Educating the consumer in environmental issues

Primark goes ethical

Conclusion on its impact

Chapter 12 Technology and systems

Information exchange (EDI)

Factory layout

The progressive bundle unit

Team working

CAD/CAM technology

Product lifecycle management (PLM)

Supply chain management

Chapter 13 Blue skies thinking: likely and unlikely future scenarios for the apparel industry

Personalisation

Rejection of the throw-away society

Smart clothes

Electronics and textiles

Individual deliveries and the decline of shops

Local manufacturing

Changes caused by government legislation

Totally new fibres and fabrics

Blue-sky conclusion

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This report asks whether mild hybrids are the sleeping giant in the hybrid world, or a not-quite-good-enough side road along the highway of hybrid technology. With regulations tightening on carbon emissions and fuel consumption around the world, both cases can be made. The challenges facing mild-hybrid systems lie in cost competitiveness and consumer perceptions.

A mild hybrid offers one way to downsize a petrol engine while maintaining acceptable performance under peak power demands, but direct injection and turbocharging (à la Ford’s ‘EcoBoost’ engine programme) is another. The two tactics are likely to compete among vehicle makers placing their bets for the powertrains they offer through 2015 or so.

Beginning a series of hybrid and electric vehicle titles, this report will provide you with an overview of mild hybrid technology, markets, players and prospects.

Use this report to understand the market position and likely take-up of mild hybrids - both now, and over the report's forecast period.

Chapter 1 Introduction sets out the case for where the sector is currently, and offers our insight as to its likely future.

Chapter 2 Mild hybrid manufacturers and technologies

This chapter profiles the major manufacturers' mild hybrid offerings, beginning with the current main player, Honda, then looking at General Motors, Suzuki, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Chery, Hyundai, PSA Peugeot Citroen and Changan.

Each manufacturer's model history is analysed and future model plans are discussed. The chapter includes a timeline from 2000 to 2017, detailing every current and expected mild hybrid model.

Chapter 3 Estimates on market take-up

While the future for electric-drive vehicles of all types looks bright, mild hybrids seem likely to have the lowest growth curve among all versions of electric drive. This is largely because their basic business case will be squeezed from both ends.

On the low end, mild hybrids’ fuel efficiency gains of 10-20% will come under heavy attack from downsized petrol engines with direct-injection and turbochargers. While DI and turbo hardware is expensive now, its price will fall substantially once volumes in the millions are achieved – and virtually every OEM is looking at a quick ramp-up for these engines.

This chapter provides just-auto's production volume data for the mild hybrid passenger car market volumes from 2000 to 2017. These volumes are presented by OEM.

Chapter 4 Technologies and definitions

This chapter provides a wider overall review of the various hybrid and electric drive technologies, how they differ and which players are involved within each sub-sector. Stop-start systems, full parallels, plug-ins, and electric-drive vehicles are amongst some of the sectors reviewed and compared against mild hybrids.

Chapter 5 Factors affecting the market

As the global vehicle market has stabilised following the precipitous declines of 2008 and 2009, roll-outs of advanced technology vehicles have been delayed by some companies (e.g. General Motors) but sped up by others (e.g. Nissan, most German makers).

But fuel efficiency remains a consideration for most of the world’s car buyers, and this can only push vehicle makers to the adoption of new technologies to make cars more efficient.

Chapter 6 Regionality effects

This chapter discusses the differences in auto markets and how they’ll affect the production and the consumer adoption rate of different electric-drive technologies.

Table Of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Mild hybrid manufacturers and technologies

Honda

First Insight

Civic Hybrid

Accord Hybrid

Second Insight

CR-Z

Honda’s hybrid future: two types

General Motors

BAS II

Suzuki

Mercedes-Benz

BMW

Chery

Hyundai

PSA Peugeot Citroën

Changan

Chapter 3 Estimates on market take-up

Chapter 4 Technologies and definitions

Stop-start system

Mild hybrids (0.5-1.0kWh battery packs)

Full (parallel or ‘power-split’) hybrids and plug-in hybrids (1-8kWh battery packs)

Plug-in parallel hybrids

Electric-drive vehicles (10-75kWh battery packs)

Series hybrid, aka extended-range electric vehicle or E-REV (10-25kWh battery packs)

Battery electric vehicle, or BEV (20-75kWh battery packs)

Chapter 5 Factors affecting the market

Conditions affecting market size

Oil prices

Regulation of carbon and other emissions

Battery costs

Vehicle costs and new financial models

Concerns to be addressed

Electric utility capacity

‘Wells to wheels’ carbon balance

Loss of OEM control over core technology

Geopolitics of lithium

And finally: are hybrids a technology or a vehicle type?

Chapter 6 Regionality effects

List of tables

Table 1: Honda mild hybrid sales by model/region, as of the end of January 2009 (no. of vehicles sold)

Table 2: Mild hybrid car production timeline, 2000-2017 (by make, model)

Table 3: Production volumes for the global mild hybrid passenger car market by OEM, 2000-2017 ('000s units)

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