Small & Microfuel cells for Portable Devices 2003-2010

Content

• Part I. State Of Art Of Mfc Technology
  • 1. Definition
    • History and Principe
    • Position of MFC
    • Strengths and weaknesses of MFC
  • 2. Potential Of MFC
    • MFC vs. Li-ion energy density
    • The perspective of evolution for MFC energy density
  • 3. Key Technologies
    • Characteristics of each technology : DMFC, RHFC, Chemical and Metal Hydride Fuel Cell,
    • Pure Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Al-Air Fuel Cell, Zn-Air Fuel Cell, Pyrotechnic Fuel Cell
    • Selection of the most appropriated technology for MFC
    • Challenges for commercialization
• Part II. Application Needs
  • 1. Market Shares
    • Segmented for each portable application from 2000 to 2010 in volume
  • 2. Market Leaders
    • Market shares by industry actors for cellular phones,laptops,
    • PDA and camcorders
    • e.g : Sanyo, NEC, BYD, SAFT, and so forth
  • 3. Key Trends
    • Main evolutions of the market
    • Key factors of success
    • Expected evolution penetration rate of MFC per industry actor experts
• Part III. Competitor Strategies
  • Who are the main actors ?
    • - Casio - MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc
    • - CEA - NEC
    • - Dupont - Samsung
    • - Fraunhofer Institute - Sanyo
    • - Hitachi - Smart Fuel Cell
    • - Gore - Toshiba
    • - Johnson Matthey - 3M
    • - Manhattan Scientifics
    • - Medis Technologies
    • - Motorola
  • Which technologies have been chosen ? Which are its prototypes ? What are its strategies ?
  • When will the actors plan to commercialize MFC ?
  • Which are the role of starts up and research institutes ?
  • Who are the main suppliers ?
• Part IV. Panorama Of Future Trends
  • 1. Technical Trends
    • MFC Vs. Li-ion Life cycle
    • MFC improvement and developments
    • Improvements for MFC commercialization
  • 2. Commercial & Economic Trends
    • Future launch date per segments
    • Evolution of penetration rate for MFC
    • Evolution of target price for each portable application
  • 3. Regulatory Trends
    • Main standards today
    • Compulsory evolutions of standards for MFC commercialization
• Part V. Forecasts 2003-2010
  • 1. Sales Forecasts For Each Application
    • IN VOLUME & VALUE FROM 2003 to 2010
    • MFC market for laptops in volume and value
    • MFC market for camcorders in volume & value
    • MFC market for cellular phones in volume & value
    • MFC market for PDA in volume & value
    • TOTAL MFC MARKET from 2003 to 2010
  • 2. Cartridge Market
    • Main potential actors
    • Cartridge prices for each portable application
    • TOTAL CARTRIDGE MARKET in million $
    • - Median scenario
    • - Best scenario
  • 3. Conclusions & Recommendations
    • Annexes