Portable Battery Powered Products: Global Markets

The market for portable, battery-powered products has grown from a few well-established niches such as flashlights and wristwatches to a diverse, rapidly growing market that encompasses HP ProBook 4510s Battery computing, communications, entertainment, photographic, and publishing products; a variety of cordless tools; and entirely new classes of military and medical products. This diversity has been accomplished because of a 572032-001 unique synergy between the products themselves, the batteries they employ, and the battery chargers and power-management systems that recharge the batteries.
Several entirely new classes of batteries have been commercialized during the past 25 years, including nickel-metal hydride, zinc-air, lithium polymer, and the widely used lithium-ion Compaq Presario CQ56 Battery design. Meanwhile, improved microelectronic battery charger controller technology Compaq Presario CQ62 Battery allows the commercialization of higher-performance, smaller, and safer designs. This, in turn, has allowed for the commercialization of portable products that would be impossible without improved battery chargers, notably 593554-001 portable computers, cell phones, digital 593553-001 cameras, multi-functional touch-screen devices, and cordless hand tools. At the same time, competitively priced no rechargeable primary batteries remain established power sources for many kinds of portable products.
As this synergy continues to develop, there are areas in which the portable product, battery, and battery charger industries could experience the explosive growth usually associated with emerging industries. Battery designers, mainly electrochemists, and battery charger designers, mainly electrical and electronics specialists, will continue to operate together, with new batteries and new battery chargers evolving in tandem to produce even higher-performance products.
This has changed how portable product batteries are marketed. All batteries degrade and must be replaced, usually much sooner than the products they power. In the past, this was addressed by 593562-001 using removable and replaceable batteries that could be WD548AA interchanged between different devices, or through an aftermarket for the replacement of original equipment manufacturer (OEM) batteries. Portable product designers now recognize the long-term value stream represented by the batteries, and they WD549AA jealously guard their control of this stream by designing batteries devices that can only be powered by batteries that they sell. This has created a whole new supply chain category that has elements of both the OEM stream and the aftermarket.
REASONS FOR DOING THE STUDY

After spectacular growth, the portable battery-powered product market is retrenching. Overall sales for some market sectors are level. In other cases, whole new classes of products are proliferating at the expense of once popular lines. Technical advances and a realignment of product, battery, and charger industry players must be matched by new marketing attitudes. Alternately, battery designers and battery charger designers must continue to cooperate to meet more demanding design requirements. With this in mind, this analysis is intended to be the most complete technical, economic, and business document of this type on battery-powered products and is designed to provide information of a professional nature. The technical data are dependent upon the accuracy of the manufacturers and technical sources that helped to make up the BCC Research database. SCOPE OF REPORT
This report organizes the portable product industry into the following market sectors:
Multi-functionalCommunicationsEntertainment and publishingComputersNavigationCamerasTimepiecesToolsLightingToys and noveltiesMedicalScientificMilitary
This classifications structure recognizes the tremendous Compaq 593562-001 Battery popularity of convergent multi-functional handheld devices that can 9 Cell 593554-001 combine cellular phones, Web browsers, computers, entertainment and publishing platforms, timepieces, and navigation aids.
Each portable product market sector is defined, the leading Compaq WD548AA Battery companies for each sector are identified, and the market sectors are analyzed, with the inclusion of a 5-year market prediction. The following kinds of batteries are discussed:
Rechargeable
Nickel-cadmium (NICAD)
Nickel-metal hydride
Lithium 593550-001 (e.g., lithium-ion, lithium-polymer)
Specialty rechargeable (e.g., lead-acid, nickel-zinc, silver-zinc, silver-cadmium)
Non-rechargeable
Zinc-carbon primary
Manganese zinc alkaline
Non-rechargeable lithium
Specialty non-rechargeable (e.g., zinc-air, silver oxide, magnesium)
These battery power sources are also Compaq Presario CQ62 Battery compared to two new portable power supplies: Compaq Presario CQ56 Battery ultracapacitors and fuel cells. Again, each battery market sector is defined, the leading companies are identified, and the market is analyzed, with the inclusion of a 5-year market prediction. Finally, OEM and HP G7 Battery charging-station battery charger markets are analyzed.
Portable product, battery, and battery charger companies are identified and profiled.
INTENDED AUDIENCE

This report, which is intended to provide a unique HP G6 Battery analysis of the global portable battery-powered product market, will be of interest to HP G4 Battery manufacturers of T1G6P battery chargers and battery charger components, as well as a variety of portable product makers. It will also be valuable to those involved in secondary battery development HP G72 Battery and marketing, as well as those offering competing nonrechargeable batteries. Nonbattery power source makers, such as fuel-cell and ultracapacitor makers, can use this report to assess the ultimate size of their target markets. Current and potential HP G62T Battery consumers, as well as those in the military and the medical professions, can determine existing or potential portable product, battery, or battery charger markets. These end users will learn which designs their battery systems will and will not allow. BCC wishes to thank those companies, government agencies, and university researchers who contributed information for this report.METHODOLOGY AND INFORMATION SOURCES
Both primary and secondary HP G62 Battery research methodologies were used in preparing this report, which is based on interviews with commercial and government sources, literature reviews, and patent examinations. An in-depth analysis of technical and HP G56 Battery business literature and published dissertations; a review of the history of the technologies involved; and interviews HP G42 Battery with industry experts, company representatives, federal government researchers, and university scientists provides an assessment of the outlook for alternative electrical power storage. Other information sources include product literature from suppliers, scientific references, conferences, and patent searches.
Market assumptions used in this Dell Vostro V13 Battery report include those based on updates of material from an earlier version of this analysis, as well as from the BCC Research study Dell Vostro 3400 Battery Lithium Batteries: Markets and Materials. This report's author prepared these Dell Vostro 3700 Battery studies as well. Although many segments of the industry are well-documented, much of this information is based on estimates rather than hard facts. The distinction between these estimates and hard facts can be vital, and sources are identified wherever possible. When appropriate, information from previously published sources is identified to allow for a more detailed examination.