Dublin, Sept. 04, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Electric Vehicles 2017-2037: Forecasts, Analysis and Opportunities" report has been added to Research and Markets' offering.

"Electric Vehicles Change the World 2017-2037" explains all this including the barely-noticed new end game of energy independent electric vehicles EIV. Nowadays, there are EIVs announced all the time and they will become more important than the much-discussed autonomy of navigation that many of them will employ.

Packed with over 180 slides of detailed, easily understood new infographics, it has facts-based new forecasts uniquely in 46 categories and twenty year technological roadmaps. No more confusing of e-tuktuks with regular cars or indoor with outdoor forklifts. No more ignoring of the new sectors such as electric motorcycles and microEVs.

We show how fuel cell and non-plug-in vehicles will be sidelined as we approach peak internal combustion engine, peak car and even peak plug-in pure electric vehicle in the next two decades. We show that if, as is likely, the new 48V mild hybrids forecasted acquire EV modes of operation within ten years, the total EV market will approach one trillion dollars. We spell out how EVs leveraging navigational autonomy and/or energy independence will hugely assist the young, the old and emerging nations in particular. EIVs lead us to totally different key enabling technologies and different winners and losers. Learn how EIV hardware will be a bigger business than autonomy hardware and identify gaps in the market.

The number and value ten year forecasts and twenty year technology roadmaps are the result of intense travel, global interviews, conference attendance and informed calculation by PhD level analysts with appropriate experience. For example, in 2016 alone, we have interviewed many staff at EV leader Toyota during our presentations to them in Japan and the USA and when speaking alongside them in conferences across the globe including our own.

In this industry nothing is quite as it seems. Car sales will peak within 15 years for many reasons that are detailed and we identify peak internal combustion engine too but most Industrial and Commercial vehicles will see no easing of growth rate for reasons given in the report: they will power past 65% of the market - more than double that of cars.

We reveal how attention is turning away from the declining share of cost and function represented by batteries to the increasing share from power electronics adding many new power technologies. However, a major focus of this unique overview report is the vehicles themselves from personal manned multicopters to e-buses straddling traffic - showing the gaps in the market. This report prioritises commercial success factors and it provides detailed statistics to support informed action plans. Unlike some, the author is not uniformly enthusiastic about everything. Indeed certain technologies will to be squeezed out to become merely niche activities and the author looks at where, when and why.

There is a detailed Executive Summary and Conclusions, Introduction and chapters on Industrial and Commercial, Cars and other applicational sectors identifying key players. There is a league table of the top 13 manufacturers of hybrid and pure electric EVs land, water and air with many famous names absent and little known names in there including seven companies not in the top 13 three years ago. Lessons are drawn.

The key enabling technologies for the future, covered in later chapters, are changing radically with multiple reversing motor generators and multiple energy harvesting including multiple electrical recuperation among those coming to the fore. This report takes a fresh, unbiased look at all the vehicle categories and technology options, most of which are subject to disruptive change. For those wanting to drill down into specific aspects the many new reports that do just that are referenced. It is a sign of the times that this report contains barely a word from its predecessor one year ago: it is almost entirely researched in 2016 then updated.

Key Topics Covered:

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1.1. Definitions
1.2. EVs will change the world
1.3. Megatrends affected by and affecting EV markets
1.4. Why EVs are chosen
1.5. The size of the business opportunity is larger than realised
1.6. No steady progress to fewer components
1.7. Good and bad strategies
1.8. The end game is not as popularly portrayed
1.9. Electric vehicle powertrain evolution: typical figures expected for cars
1.10. Mayhem in the car market: number K
1.11. Cheaper to buy is the killer blow
1.12. Very different cost structures across the world: watch buses and cars
1.13. Evolution of battery energy density and cost
1.14. Market forecasts in 46 categories
1.15. League table of EV manufacturers 2017 $ billion
1.16. EV manufacturer numbers by sector showing where most are profitable
1.17. Milestone in 2017
1.18. Learnings from Electric & Hybrid Conference Germany April 2017 and others in 2017
1.19. The leaders in pure electric cars in 2017
1.20. World's first autonomous and zero emissions ship
1.21. Unintended consequences advance electric car takeoff

2. INTRODUCTION
2.1. What, where?
2.2. How are they made?
2.3. Lessons past, present and future
2.4. On-road Plug-in EV sales to 2015
2.5. The largest value market for e-cars
2.6. The China phenomenon
2.7. EV end game: Energy Independent Vehicles EIV
2.8. Huge impact of autonomous car as bus is calculated in 2017
2.9. Profile: Cummins
2.10. Cummins view in 2017 of the future of off-road electric vehicle drivelines
2.11. Electric Vehicle News from Berlin May 2017

3. INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL EVS
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Market dynamics
3.3. Buses trends
3.4. Rocketing sales of plug-in buses in China (PEV+PHEV)
3.5. Progress of Yutong, global market leader and its opinion
3.6. Small commercial and industrial vehicles innovate
3.7. Trucks and school buses
3.8. Energy Independent Industrial and Commercial vehicles
3.9. League tables of manufacturers

4. ELECTRIC CARS
4.1. Car demand: 15 year view
4.2. Chinese car manufacturers coming up fast
4.3. Examples of policy support mechanisms for plug-in electric cars 2015
4.4. Autonomous cars are best when they are electric
4.5. The attack on the car
4.6. Market figures 2015-6 Cars will remain a huge business for decades and new opportunities will arise from the ashes

5. MICRO EVS E-BIKES, E-SCOOTERS, E-MOTORBIKES, MOBILITY FOR DISABLED
5.1. Commonality and classification
5.2. Parameters by category
5.3. Many types of micro EV and two wheeler
5.4. Terra Motors: superb market knowledge and unique approach
5.5. Many other examples, recent news
5.6. Toyota MicroEV: targetting 300K in Europe for postal deliveries
5.7. Mobility for the disabled
5.8. These types as Energy Independent Vehicles EIV: microbus power chair, delivery e-bike, agrobot, microcar

6. MARINE EVS
6.1. Overview
6.2. Marine EV categories
6.3. Favoured trends for marine EV technologies
6.4. Other benefits of marine EVs
6.5. Examples of marine EV making new things possible
6.6. Large emission from marine vessels
6.7. Government regulations for the marine industry
6.8. Key drivers for electrification of marine vessels
6.9. Electrification in action - Fuel Cell Propulsion
6.10. Conclusions and outlook

7. MANNED ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT
7.1. Why go electric for manned aircraft?
7.2. How to transition to electric aircraft: MEA hybrid, pure electric
7.3. MEA issues and opportunities
7.4. Where electric aircraft are headed: range anxiety to range superiority
7.5. Manned aircraft lagged land-based electric vehicles
7.6. Trend to larger electric aircraft
7.7. Electrification of aircraft in general: rapid progress
7.8. Electric aircraft already commercialised
7.9. Routes to further commercialisation of electric aircraft
7.10. Pure electric manned aircraft arriving
7.11. Hybrid electric aircraft arriving
7.12. Flying cars: needed or possible?
7.13. Choice of powertrains is influenced by many factors
7.14. New end game: Energy Independent Vehicles EIV
7.15. Key enabling technologies in future: examples
7.16. Less mechanics: more electronics
7.17. Becoming one business land water, air - hybrid and pure electric
7.18. Regulations have impeded small e-aircraft in the USA
7.19. Ambition and freedom in Europe
7.20. Progress in East Asia
7.21. Market forecasts

8. ELECTRIC DRONES: UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAVS)
8.1. Definition
8.2. Types of drone - toy/ personal electric
8.3. Types of drone - other small electric
8.4. Benefits and issues
8.5. How does it impact society?
8.6. Civil drone applications
8.7. Most successful pure electric UAV
8.8. All parts subject to disruptive change

9. SOME OF THE KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
9.1. The key enabling technologies are changing
9.2. New electric powertrains will often be more complex
9.3. Energy storage
9.4. Forecasts of energy density by type 2016 - 2028
9.5. Rapid scale-up with rapid change of product spells trouble
9.6. Safety Warning
9.7. Fuel cells
9.8. Rotating Electrical Machines and their controls
9.9. Energy harvesting including regeneration

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