Although the fuel battery industry in recent years through a series of false start, but the market research PikeResearch is still predicted, global portable fuel cell market size by 2009 185 million dollars in 2016, expanded to 2.3 billion. The report noted that owing to a series of portable applications to provide clean, reliable power source, the fuel cell is becoming a consumer electronics, emergency communications systems, and industrial handheld devices such as power a new choice.
PikeResearch analyst ClintWheelock, said a variety of special applications will be in the next few years continue to be the fuel cell market, the driving force, but also an increasing number of equipment manufacturers found that fuel cell technology is an attractive traditional battery alternatives, or can be used as portable applications, small generators. He also added that from the Government’s financial assistance, as well as military, industrial and other applications of direct procurement is to enable the commercialization of portable fuel cells, the gradual rise of a major part.
The research firm estimates that in 2016 the market’s main fuel cell power generation capacity will be 500watt ~ 2kilowatt between the alternative ship, battlefield support systems (combatsupportsystems) as well as the auxiliary power unit (auxiliarypowerunits) Application of the gasoline and diesel generators. The 100 ~ 500watt products will be a market demand for the second-largest, the main application is the emergency system batteries, power tools, and unmanned vehicles and so on.