Automotive Gears Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2021 - 2026)

Market Overview

The automotive gears market is anticipated to register a CAGR of over 5.5% during the forecast period (2020-2025).

Gears are a significant component in automotive systems. The gears market growth is directly related to vehicle sales.

In the automotive market, a shift toward more expensive, energy-efficient units, such as seven and eight-speed automatic transmissions, may contribute to value gains. Additionally, sales of gears used in several relatively small but fast-growing applications, such as wind and solar power, are expected to increase significantly.

However, various factors are restraining the growth of the gear market, such as the growing demand for electric vehicles, due to rising emission regulations. The electric vehicles have minimal use of gears. The overall number of gears used is significantly less, due to fewer transmission systems, lesser use of differentials, and near elimination of gearboxes.

Asia-Pacific is likely to lead the automotive gears market, as the region is a major vehicle producer, followed by Europe and North America, respectively. Nevertheless, vehicle production around the world is declining due to the economic crisis, recent US-China trade conflicts, and on-going COVID-19 pandemic. The automotive gears market is expected to witness a decline throughout 2020, and a reduction in Y-o-Y growth rate in 2021.

Scope of the Report

The automotive gears market is segmented by position (skew shaft gears, intersecting shaft gears, and parallel shaft gears), material (ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, and other materials (composites and plastics)), application (steering systems, transmission systems, and differential systems), and geography (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Middle-East and Africa).

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Key Market Trends

Growing Demand of Electric Vehicle Hindering the Growth of the Automotive Gears Market

The electric vehicle market is rapidly growing across the world. The electric vehicle sales in Europe have significantly increased by 47% in the first quarter of 2018, in comparison to the first quarter of 2017. By 2040, nearly 54% of the new car sales and 33% of the global car fleet are likely to be electric. To meet the electric vehicle sales target, the European government has already started various projects for building charging infrastructure across the region.

The global and regional manufacturers of electric vehicles are innovating with new technologies and are expanding their services across the world. For instance:

• China's BYD has built up an extensive production network in Europe that has mostly gone unnoticed in the passenger car market. Some of the primary reasons for this are the firm's new plant in Hungary, its planned plant in France, and its joint venture operations in the United Kingdom, all of which are manufacturing electric buses.
• Daimler has teamed up with the Chinese government for promoting e-mobility in China. Electric mobility is one of the major pillars of Daimler's future mobility strategy. The company is bringing this strategy forward globally, especially in China, the world's largest NEV market.

The electric vehicles have minimal use of gears. The overall number of gears used is significantly less due to fewer transmission systems, lesser use of differentials, and almost near elimination of gearboxes.

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