Those making electric vehicles or their components seek to expand their business. To do this, they need to look beyond the oversupplied on-road sector. Marine electric vehicles are interesting as a market that is more profitable and often more open to innovation. However, until now, there has been no report assessing this substantial market sector. No longer. This is the world’s first comprehensive report on marine electric vehicles with latest ten year forecasts and important new projects such as submarines that will fly.
Large military business will be overtaken
The rapidly growing $2.3 billion market for marine electric vehicles is unusually varied. It includes on-water and underwater electric vehicles for inland waterways and the sea. Military electric craft dominate in market value today, despite the fact that IDTechEx excludes electrically propelled ordnance, such as torpedoes, and tethered vehicles from this report. Civil marine electric vehicles will constitute the largest marine electric vehicle market by value.
Often the first to innovate
Certain marine electric craft are ahead of land and air electric vehicles in variously using lithium-ion traction batteries with greatest energy storage, the latest CIGS flexible solar cells (predecessor of multilayer smart skin explained in the text) and in being deployed for years at a time without human intervention. For example, only boats carry up to 150 people on solar power alone. Only seagoing “glider” Autonomous Underwater Vehicles AUVs are deployed for years without human intervention, coming to the surface when necessary to harvest electric power from both waves and sun.
Benchmarking
On the other hand, the report shows where designers of electric marine craft can learn from non-marine vehicles that are ahead in certain other respects. Examples include use of third generation battery technologies in electric aircraft and gas turbine range extenders in leading buses and supercars. Then there is the harvesting of the heat of the conventional engine in a hybrid car to produce electricity – expected soon. There needs to be much more benchmarking of best practice between electric vehicle sectors and the IDTechEx reports on electric vehicles by type – of which the marine report is the latest – assist in this process.
Marine Electric Vehicles Market
Published: February 2012
No.OF Pages: 181
Price: Single User License US$ 3995
Table of Contents
1.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1.1.The whole picture
1.1.1.Global marine EV forecasts 2012-2022
1.1.2.Marine EVs compared to all EVs
1.2.Forecast rationale
1.3.Benefits of marine electric vehicles
1.3.1.Price sensitivity
1.3.2.Favoured Marine EV Technologies
2.INTRODUCTION
2.1.Definitions and scope of this report
2.2.The EV value chain
2.3.Benefits of marine electric vehicles
2.4.Pure electric marine vehicles
2.5.Hybrid marine vehicles
2.6.Born electric
2.7.New structural advances and smart skin
3.SURFACE CRAFT
3.1.Commonality with land EVs
3.1.1.Grants for land and water
3.1.2.Effect of land EV manufacturers entering marine
3.1.3.Pollution laws back electric boats – India, Europe, Taiwan, USA
3.2.Examples of electric surface craft
3.2.1.Tiny Ruban Bleu boats for hire France
3.2.2.Leisure Life small inland launch USA
3.2.3.Andaman and Electric Boats Thailand
3.2.4.Seascape pedalo EV
3.2.5.Asmo Marine Denmark
3.2.6.Tamarack Lake foldable inland boat USA
3.2.7.Duffy inland electric deck boats, USA
3.2.8.Boesch Boats for water skiing Switzerland
3.2.9.Epic Wakeboats hybrid sport boat USA
3.2.10.Erun GmbH inland sport boats Switzerland
3.2.11.Boote Marian luxury inland boats Austria
3.2.12.Kitegen seagoing kite boats Italy and Sauter UK
3.2.13.Larger solar lake boats Switzerland
3.2.14.SCOD / Atlantic Motors high performance cabin cruiser USA
3.2.15.MW Line solar seagoing boat Switzerland
3.2.16.Unmanned boat gathering oil USA
3.2.17.Seagoing yachts France
3.2.18.Fuel cell hybrid ferry New York
3.2.19.Tag plug in hybrid large sail boat South Africa, New Zealand
3.2.20.Türanor PlanetSolar solar catamaran Germany
3.2.21.Energy harvesting superyacht UK
3.2.22.Hybrid tugboats Canada, USA
3.2.23.Tugboats hybrid and pure electric Canada
3.2.24.Tugboats UK
3.2.25.Solar hybrid supertanker
4.MANNED UNDERWATER ELECTRIC VEHICLES
4.1.Sea scooters for scuba divers, Italy, China
4.2.Leisure and tourist submarines
4.2.1.Kittredge UK
4.2.2.Odyssea USA
4.2.3.International Venture Craft USA
4.2.4.Hawkes Ocean Technologies USA
4.2.5.Silvercrest/UVI Canada, UK
4.2.6.Submarines that are efficient surface boats
4.2.7.US Submarines Inc USA
4.2.8.Will submarines fly?
5.AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUVS)
5.1.Swimmers vs gliders
5.2.Wave and sun powered sea gliders
5.2.1.Virginia Institute of Marine Science USA
5.2.2.Falmouth Scientific Inc USA
5.2.3.Liquid Robotics USA
5.3.AUV swimmers North America
5.3.2.Hydroid USA
5.3.3.OceanServer Technology USA
5.4.AUV swimmers Europe
5.4.1.Kongsberg
5.4.2.Teledyne USA, Iceland
5.4.3.Mine Destruction AUV UK
5.4.4.Autosub6000 UK
5.4.5.a.r.s Technologies GmbH Germany
5.5.AUV swimmers East Asia
5.5.1.DRDO India
5.5.2.JAMSTEC Japan
6.BIOMIMETIC UNMANNED UNDERWATER CRAFT
6.1.Robot jellyfish USA and Germany
7.DRIVE TRAINS, COMPONENTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
7.1.Drive trains
7.2.Traction batteries
7.2.1.The lure of lithium-ion
7.2.2.Cells – modules – battery packs
7.2.3.NiMH vs lithium
7.2.4.The ideal traction battery pack
7.2.5.Recent improvements
7.2.6.Traction batteries today
7.2.7.Trends in energy storage vs battery pack voltage
7.2.8.Move to high voltage
7.2.9.Many suppliers
7.2.10.Pouch problems?
7.2.11.The lure of lithium polymer versions of lithium-ion
7.2.12.Genuinely solid state traction batteries
7.2.13.New chemistries for lithium-ion batteries
7.2.14.Impediments
7.2.15.ABSL
7.2.16.SAFT
7.3.Range extenders
7.4.Fuel cells
7.5.Electric motors
7.5.1.New motors and outboards for boats
7.5.2.AC vs DC
7.6.Motor position
7.7.Charging infrastructure for marine EVs
7.7.1.General needs and solutions
7.8.Case study: Arctic under ice survey
7.9.MBARI research AUV deployment
8.MARKET FORECASTS 2011 2021 AND ROADMAP
8.1.1.Market drivers
8.1.2.Global forecasts 2012-2022
8.1.3.Marine EVs compared to all EVs
8.1.4.Penetration of total marine market
8.2.Marine market segments
8.3.Market forecasts 2012-2022
8.3.1.Total market
8.3.2.AUV market
8.3.3.Market leaders
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