Abstract
The global automotive battery market is highly competitive. Battery makers compete on price, quality, technical innovation, service and warranty, and consolidation among the major battery manufacturers continues to shape the industry.
A number of other factors are also shaping the lead-acid automotive starter battery market. Some are market driven, whilst others are outside manufacturers' control. With a significant rise in the cost per metric ton of lead over the past year, the price of oil driving up the cost of polypropylene used in battery manufacture, and imported batteries flooding in from emerging economies, they continue to pose a serious challenge to European manufacturers.
This fourth edition of the automotive batteries report provides an extensive overview of the global market, with top-level product fitment forecasts showing how the OE market for lead-acid starter batteries will evolve in Europe, Japan and North America.
Forecasts also show the OE, OES (original equipment supply), and independent aftermarket for lead-acid starter batteries for passenger cars and commercial vehicles from 2004 through to 2014 for selected regions.
Key trends, and recent innovations in starter batteries and batteries for alternative drive systems are discussed, and comment from executives, such as Paul Matarewicz, managing director of the renamed UK subsidiary, Johnson Controls Batteries and VW group research chief Juergen Leohold are included.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The market
- Market trends
- Market players
- Banner
- Exide Technologies
- Fiamm
- GS Yuasa Corp
- Johnson Controls
- Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery
- Emerging markets
- China
- Eastern Europe
- India
- Market shares
- Europe
- North America
- Market forecasts
Chapter 3 Technical review
- Defining the elements
- Starter batteries
- Batteries for alternative drive systems
- Starter battery developments
- Alternative drive battery developments
- Q&A with the US Advanced Battery Consortium
- Other innovations
Chapter 4 Manufacturers
- Exide Technologies
- Fiamm
- GS Yuasa Corp
- Johnson Controls
List of figures
- Figure 1: Lithium-ion automotive battery manufacturing facility, Nersac, France
- Figure 2: Global OEM and aftermarket market shares of automotive lead-acid starter batteries for passenger cars and light vehicles, 2007 (% of sales volume)
- Figure 3: European OEM and OES market shares of automotive lead-acid starter batteries for passenger cars and light vehicles, 2007 (% of sales volume)
- Figure 4: European independent aftermarket market shares of automotive lead-acid starter batteries for passenger cars and light vehicles, 2007 (% of sales volume)
- Figure 5: German independent aftermarket market shares of automotive lead-acid starter batteries for passenger cars and light vehicles, 2007 (% of sales volume)
- Figure 6: UK independent aftermarket market shares of automotive lead-acid starter batteries for passenger cars and light vehicles, 2007 (% of sales volume)
- Figure 7: French independent aftermarket market shares of automotive lead-acid starter batteries for passenger cars and light vehicles, 2007 (% of sales volume)
- Figure 8: North American OEM market shares of automotive lead-acid starter batteries for passenger cars and light vehicle applications, 2007 (% of sales volume)
- Figure 9: The Lithium-ion Battery System by Johnson Controls-Saft Advanced Power Solutions. This system was shown in a hybrid SUV at the 2007 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, US
List of tables
- Table 1: Market volume of OE lead-acid starter batteries for passenger cars and light trucks, Europe, Japan, North America and China, 2004-2014 (units ' 000s)
- Table 2: Market value of OE lead-acid starter batteries for passenger cars and light trucks, Europe, Japan, North America and China, 2004-2014 (EUR ' 000s)
- Table 3: Market volume of lead-acid starter batteries for passenger cars distributed through the OES and independent aftermarket, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK, 2004-2014 (units ' 000s)
- Table 4: Market volume of lead-acid starter batteries for commercial vehicles (less than 3.5 ton) distributed through the OES and independent aftermarket, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK, 2004-2014 (units ' 000s)
- Table 5: Battery system requirements for alternative drive systems
- Table 6: Exide Technologies' transportation battery manufacturing plants and offices worldwide, 2008
- Table 7: Johnson Controls' Power Solutions' plants and distribution centres worldwide, 2008
