The development trend of carbon fiber materials in automobile lightweighting
Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) is a carbon fiber as a reinforcing material and a resin as a matrix material. Early carbon fiber composite materials were mainly used in the military field.
With the improvement of material properties, molding process and price cost, carbon fiber composite materials are increasingly used in general industrial and sports leisure fields. Driven by the global energy conservation and environmental protection trends, the fuel consumption problem of automobiles has attracted more and more attention. Lightweight design has become an effective way for energy saving and emission reduction of automobiles, and the material properties and development trends of carbon fiber composite materials are in line with the development needs of the automotive industry. .
Carbon fiber composite materials are 50% lighter than steel, 30% lighter than aluminum materials, and have obvious weight loss effects. Therefore, many automobile manufacturers have begun to apply a large number of carbon fiber composite materials for the pursuit of extreme light weight in the process of automobile manufacturing and modification. With the development of new energy vehicles, carbon fiber composite materials will be more and more widely used in automobiles.
