From concept to quantity full plastic car when can realize
From concept to quantity full plastic car when can realize
Light and solid design is the core of current automobile development, and it has become a trend for cars to enter the "plastic age". Even more dazzlingly, the latest plastic sheet can be used to make a car's plastic from the skeleton to the panel.
The industry believe that on the all plastic "car requires not only the manufacturer at a cost of inputs, also need to support the policy laws and regulations, otherwise it is difficult to ground, or fall like new energy vehicles" run "awkward situation.
"Sandwich" new material makes cars lighter and more fluid
Many consumers are hoping to enjoy the greatest degree of freedom in the process of car design, such as the individual and unique design, and have light, the advantages of energy saving, cost saving and environmental protection.
Now that imagination is no longer a fantasy. Germany's bayer materials science and technology has announced A new research and development - A level on the surface of the composite material, its whole structure like "sandwich", from the glass fiber reinforced polycarbonate substrate material to the polyurethane foam filling, polyurethane (pu) material to the double set of points act the role of the coating system. Such a design can not only make the body lighter, but also keep the temperature inside the car, insulate from the outside, effectively reduce the pressure of air conditioning system, and make a great contribution to energy conservation and environmental protection.
Key bayer materials science and technology in Asia Pacific, passenger car market manager told reporters: "if automakers like, this material can be directly from the hatchback after skylight stretches all the way to the door, have many independent assembly of metal parts together, where the need to increase strength, where does not need to reduce material to reduce weight, greatly reduce the cost of traditional metal material assembly. In addition, the "sandwich" structure can also significantly improve impact resistance, and prices are much lower than carbon-fiber composite materials.
It is worth mentioning that the fiberglass reinforced polycarbonate composites can be used to transform the color of cars and meet the personalized needs of consumers with the help of a special functional film.
Car experts, "Mr. Jia said the current resource scarcity, oil price fluctuations and increasing demand for environmentally friendly products, use new materials to make cars, keep up with the trend of the automobile industry development.
The Chinese market has become a land of war
According to market research firm global Marketsand Markets report, global auto plastic market is developing rapidly, the next five years the global auto plastic consumption will be increased by 13.4% a year, market value will surged from $2012 in 21.617 billion to $2018 in 46.112 billion. In 2012, the asia-pacific region became the world's largest consumer of automotive plastics, accounting for 50.5 percent of the total, followed by Europe with 28 percent and North America 11.3 percent.
Great Wall materials engineering department minister schlegel shin, polycarbonate, for example, as a result of flexibility in the design, creative, plus auto lamp has been designed to LED lights, now 95% of the world's automobile headlamps are using this technology.
Not only such, hong-xin Yang also said that the current polycarbonate material in the audi A1, models, such as Volkswagen polo skylight frame batch applications, some domestic makers such as saic, changan has carried out its application in the skylight, triangle window components such as technology development work. With the continuous maturity and cost of the technology, plastic will become the trend of domestic production.
As the world's biggest car sales market, the industry under the "plastic age", China is expected to become the focus of each race, because both parts suppliers and automakers, are at pains to talk about the importance of the Chinese market.
"In recent years, it has been discovered that local enterprises not only have no baggage in the innovation process, but also dare to use new technologies. For many foreign companies, it is only now that they can get more shares in the future. "We're not going to be able to do that," said tang peide, global President of bayer materials technology.
When will the new technology become commonplace?
"From r&d to small batch production to make it affordable, to open up, in addition to technology to further improve, also need auto makers into production, and consumption policies to encourage and promote rules." Key said.
Mr. Jia said the company is now developing new technologies, but that it mainly focuses on accessories and interiors, and further tests are needed to make the new material available. For example, better systems are developed to deal with raw materials, cost reduction, and how the supply chain can cooperate better with each other.
In addition, although the electric car is much higher than traditional cars to the requirement of lightweight, high-performance materials of ascension can greatly promote the development of electric vehicles, but reporters found that the market outlook is not so optimistic.
"In terms of pure electric vehicles, for example, since 2009, when the national policy of encourage private pilot buy pure electric vehicles, since today, there is still some in the six pilot cities, nowhere to launch detailed rules for the implementation of national pilot subsidy policy can not be implemented." The company's public relations manager Yang zhao said.
The situation overseas is not satisfactory either. The German aerospace center (DLR), according to the latest research results of gasoline and diesel vehicles is the German's favourite, by 2020 there will be only 40000 electric vehicles driving on the streets of Germany accounts for only 3% of all models.
In fact, in terms of environmental protection, the development of the electric vehicle industry is also related to the establishment of a cross-coordination mechanism with government departments to accelerate the development of supporting policies and measures. Experts believe that binding force can only force the "zero-emission" electric vehicle to "run faster".
Under the state council development research center, researchers said ni weidou in this round of automobile power technology revolution, shining is not the general, not ford, but without any car background of tesla, once again shows that the development of alternative technologies change. A large number of new entrants will motivate and motivate existing enterprises to follow up, and technical breakthroughs in new entrants will also provide technical elements for technical integration of existing enterprises.
