With the ongoing growth of the electric vehicle market, EV battery manufacturers are of course continuing to see their sales numbers climb as well — as attested to by the most recent figures on the market. But who are the top EV battery manufacturers?

Perhaps the most interesting thing to note amongst the new figures is that the field seems to be evening out some — with some of the smaller players gaining market-share while the larger players are beginning to (seemingly) lose their dominance.

On that note, the overall year-through-September numbers are already higher than the totals for the whole of last year, so perhaps there’s no animosity there? After all, the real competition isn’t the other EV battery manufacturers — it’s the hugely dominant gas-powered vehicles manufacturers.

Here are some of the key points to take note of, paraphrased from EV-Sales.blogspot:

The market leader Panasonic Model X

The AESC joint venture between NEC and Renault-Nissan is continuing to see its market-share collapse — 36% in 2012, 28% in 2013, and 23% as of right now. That’s a real tumble, and relatively fast. That share should continue falling into the foreseeable future as Renault-Nissan’s partnership with LG moves along.

Worth noting, though, is that LG Chevy Volt

Lithium Energy Japan (GS Yuasa / Mitsubishi), has seen a pop (up to a 7% market share) owing to the success of the Outlander PHEV.

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Samsung BMW

Air Lithium — the supplier for Kandi





Here are the numbers (in MWh) in a couple of formats: