MRG Introduces Worldwide Next-Generation Batteries Report Analyzing US$63 Billion...

MRG Introduces Worldwide Next-Generation Batteries Report Analyzing US$63
Billion Market

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- MRG, Inc., announces a comprehensive
report on emerging battery technologies including Next-Generation Li-ion
Chemistries, Advanced Zinc and Nickel Batteries, Thin-Film and Printed
Batteries, and Emerging Alternative Power Sources.

Since batteries are a US$63 billion global industry, battery manufacturers,
start-ups, universities and pure research centers are developing new
generations of batteries, in various form factors, for existing and emerging
markets, including:

-- Batteries with more energy in smaller packages: flexible and
lightweight
thin-film and/or screen-printed batteries for tiny electronic systems
and emerging micropower energy-harvesting devices, where macro trends
and market trends are converging around ecosensititives and low-power
devices.
-- Larger-format, but lighter-weight rechargeable batteries with greater
power, higher energy, longer run times and better safety profiles, for
the advanced transportation industry including plug-in hybrid and
all-electric vehicles.
-- Ultra-large advanced batteries for storing energy from renewable,
sustainable sources, for electric utility grid services and
clean-energy
generators like wind turbines and solar panels.
-- Alternative, hybrid energy storage devices with attributes of both a
battery and either an ultracapacitor or a fuel cell; for potentially
ground-breaking future energy storage devices that may be superior to
any batteries commonly used today.

Focusing on technologically advanced rechargeable batteries in large, medium
and small formats, the report covers new technologies as replacements for NiCd
and NiMH, especially advanced lithium-ion batteries using new electrode
materials and electrolytes. It also covers printable batteries and thin-film
battery stacks as enablers of micropower applications, and hybrid battery/fuel
cell systems that are emerging as complements to consumer electronics
batteries. Tables and charts provide a big picture of the future growth
potential for advanced battery technologies based on the leading markets
(applications). Included are profiles of 25 US-based commercial (a few of them
public) and development-stage companies and their products and business
strategies; and 12 commercial and/or university-based R&D centers. Also
included is a global analysis of renewable energy capacity and projected
growth; and global battery market share by technology.

Co-produced with Fuji-Keizai, USA Inc, the 98-page report, "Worldwide
Next-Generation Batteries" is available in English or Japanese languages in a
Hard Copy Print Edition for $1,495 USD, a PDF single-department license for
$2,295 USD and a PDF corporate-wide license for $3,495 USD. For more
information visit www.mrgco.com/powertech/fk_batteries09.html or to order the
report, contact Rob Smith at 1-408-453-5553 or rsmith@mrgco.com. (Published:
January, 2009)

SOURCE MRG, Inc.

Rob Smith of MRG, Inc., +1-408-453-5553, rsmith@mrgco.com