The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that global battery electric vehicle (BEV) (cars) sales and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) (cars) sales surged from 1,542,867 units in 2019 to 2,008,024 units in 2020 and 570,724 units in 2019 to 969,034 units in 2020, respectively. Further, the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (OICA) states that 77,621,582 vehicles were manufactured and 77,971,234 automobiles were sold around the world in 2020. Therefore, the burgeoning electric vehicle (EV) and motor vehicle sales will create an extensive requirement for position sensors, globally.
Additionally, the expanding packaging sector, especially in India and China, will help the position sensor market progress at a CAGR of 7.7% during the forecast period (2019–2024). According to P&S Intelligence, the market revenue stood at $9.1 billion in 2018 and it will reach $14.2 billion by 2024. Packaging companies use these instruments in packaging machinery to meet international standards. Currently, the increasing adoption of smart position sensors in healthcare and aerospace companies, owing to better motion control offered by them, is becoming a prominent market trend.
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In recent years, end users, such as aerospace, automotive, power generation, healthcare, packaging, consumer electronics, manufacturing, and oil and gas companies, have preferred rotary position sensors over linear variants, due to the wide application base of the former. Rotary position sensors are used in consumer electronic products and for throttle position control and detection in vehicles. Rotary encoders, resolvers, rotary potentiometers, and rotary variable differential transformers (RVDTs) are the different types of rotary position sensors being used in these end-use sectors.
The contact type segment of the position sensor market is bifurcated into contact and non-contact. Under this segment, the contact category accounted for a larger market share in 2018, on account of the lower cost of contact position sensors than non-contact variants. The lower cost of these sensors makes them quite popular among developing countries, such as China, India, and Indonesia. Whereas, the non-contact category is expected to witness faster growth during the forecast years, owing to the higher accuracy of non-contact position sensors in nanometer and sub-micron levels.