Lead Acid Batteries Will Be the Mainstream in the next 10 Years

Service life is the short board for the lead acid batteries.
From a global perspective, the 2010 lead-acid battery market reach up to $ 36.2 billion, an increase of 8.6%; about the forecast of 2015, the overall market size of the global lead-acid battery will remain 2% -5% annual growth.

With respect to the nickel-metal hydride batteries and lithium batteries, lead-acid battery still cover the world's highest share of electrical storage devices products. Wherein the car startsing is its main application market, but growth of using the lead acid battery has slowed. Electric bicycle is the fastest growing market in the field of the lead acid batteries.Currently about 90% of electric bikes use lead-acid batteries.

From the energy storage battery market, China's main energy storage battery are still lead-acid batteries and lithium batteries Flow batteries are still in the demonstration phase. The overall size of the market reached 60 billion yuan. In 2012 the output value of lead-acid batteries in storage areas reached 5.3 billion yuan, 700 million yuan for the other battery.

Lead-acid battery technology is mature, the lowest cost of all chemical storage batteries inside. The main problem is the relatively short life span, especially when the battery at depth of discharge.The lead-acid battery life is about a few hundred times.
Industry concentration is expected to increase.
Lead-acid battery has large market demand  in the field of powered applications, energy storage is an important direction of development.

Construction of communication base stations will stimulate demand for lead-acid batteries. In 2012 the domestic telecommunications industry investment reached 360 billion yuan, with the construction of 4G networks, the investment will continue to grow in the future. Communications is one of the main valve-regulated lead-acid battery market, mainly for communications base stations and central office backup power replacement cycle of 3--5 years, the total amount of purchase of about 2% to telecommunications investment in fixed assets 3%.