Vehicle-mounted lithium battery will gradually erode the nickel-metal hydride battery market

It is no doubt that new energy vehicles have become the development direction of the global automotive industry. From the more mature hybrid vehicles to the latest trend of pure electric vehicles to fuel cell vehicles, battery technology has undoubtedly become the main factor restricting the development of new energy vehicles.

Zhang Shulin, chief advisor of the Automotive Technology Research Center, said that pure electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles have the lowest energy consumption and emissions and should be the main direction for future elections. Lithium batteries and nickel-metal hydride batteries related to them are also future technological directions. At present, China's nickel-metal hydride batteries have reached a production capacity of 140 million watts, and is expected to reach 360 million by the end of 2010. Lithium batteries currently have a production capacity of 900 million watt-hours, and will reach 4 billion by 2010, when these batteries can meet 15 The needs of 10,000 electric cars. The current cost has dropped to 3 yuan per watt.

Lithium batteries are more promising than nickel-metal hydride batteries because they are suitable for use in electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Japan's Fuji Economic Analysis Agency believes that the mainstream status of nickel-metal hydride batteries will be extended to 2011, but lithium batteries will gradually erode the market share of nickel-metal hydride batteries after 2011, the agency estimates the global use of nickel-metal hydride rechargeable batteries for vehicles in 2009 The market size will increase by 23.7% from the previous year to 92 billion yen, but the market size of on-board nickel-metal hydride rechargeable batteries will fall to 55 billion yen in 2015.

Nowadays, more and more automobile manufacturers choose lithium batteries as the power battery for new energy vehicles, such as Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan, and Hyundai. Domestic automobile manufacturers such as BYD, Geely, Chery, Lifan, and ZTE also have power lithium batteries in their hybrid and pure electric vehicles.