Those selling components for
electric vehicles and those wishing to make the vehicles themselves must seek
where the majority of the money is spent and will be spent. That must lead them
to industrial and commercial electric vehicles because today these represent
60% of the value of the electric vehicle market. Indeed, this sector is set to
grow 4.2 times in the next decade. Industrial and commercial electric vehicles
include heavy industrial vehicles, the term referring to heavy lifting, as with
forklifts.
Then we have buses, trucks, taxis
and the other light industrial and commercial vehicles. There are also a few
work boats and commercial boats and one day there will be commercial electric
aircraft but this is really a story about the burgeoning demand for off-road
industrial vehicles and on-road commercial vehicles. In particular, industrial
electric vehicles make industry more efficient and commercial electric vehicles
reduce congestion. Both of them greatly reduce pollution and align closely with
government objectives concerning industry and the environment, yet they
minimally depend on subsidy, in contrast with some other electric vehicle
types.
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This report covers the technical and
market trends for industrial and commercial vehicles whether hybrid or pure
electric, putting it in the context of electric vehicles overall and including
the activities of a host of manufacturers of the vehicles and their components
and even providing future technological development roadmaps.
The market for electric industrial
vehicles is already large because, by law, forklifts have to be electric when
used indoors. Little growth remains in this market but outdoors almost all
earthmoving and lifting vehicles use the conventional internal combustion
engine. That is about to change dramatically because hybrid electric versions
reduce cost of ownership and exposure to price hikes with fossil fuels. Hybrids
increasingly perform better as well, with more power from stationary, ability
to supply electricity to other equipment and other benefits including less
noise and pollution. On the other hand, airports, often government owned or
funded, are under great pressure to finish converting their Ground Support
Equipment GSE to pure electric versions both on and off the tarmac partly using
federal grants.
Yet another industrial trend is for
use of electric vehicles to replace slow and often dangerous manual procedures.
Sometimes a self-powered indoor crane replaces scaffolding. An electric stair
climber replaces human effort and possible injury. On the other hand, sit-on
floor cleaners in buildings, sit-on ice cleaners in ice rinks, outrider
vehicles carried on trash collection trucks and a host of similar solutions
speed processes and reduce injuries and costs.
Buses, trucks, taxis and the other
light industrial and commercial vehicles are going electric for similar reasons
but we must add the desire of national and local governments, who buy many of
them, to go green, even where there is no payback. However, the size and growth
of the industrial and commercial sector is less dependent on government funding
and tax breaks than the more fragile market for electric cars, particularly
pure electric ones. Excitingly, most of the electric vehicle technologies are
changing and improving hugely and innovation often comes here before it is seen
in the more publicised electric vehicle sectors such as cars.
Asynchronous traction motors were
first widely used on forklifts: their benefits of longer life, less
maintenance, low cost and freedom from magnet price hikes and heating problems
are only later being seen in a few cars. Ultracapacitors otherwise known as
supercapacitors permit very fast charging of buses whether by the new Level 3
charging stations or regenerative braking and they release huge surges of power
when the bus is full and starting on a hill. Gas turbine range extenders have
been on some buses for 12 years but they are only now being planned for cars.
Fuel cells will be viable in fleets where the expensive hydrogen distribution
is manageable - not for cars across the world. Energy harvesting shock
absorbers about to hit the market will be very viable on buses and trucks where
they can put up to 12 kW into the battery whereas such devices on cars will
take longer to prove.
Nevertheless, it is important to
look at industrial and commercial electric vehicles as part of all electric
vehicles out there - as we do - because it is increasingly true that one
company will produce EVs for many end uses and even make key components. This
achieves the product reliability and cost advantages that come from highest
volume manufacture based on standardisation and shared research.
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