Automotive LED headlamps headlamp applications come to the fore

At the Beijing auto show, Mercedes has brought a global debut of the "mysterious" concept car CLS Shooting Break Concept Benz, the lighting device adopts the 71 independent led, icing on the cake for the "noble sentiment" vehicle.

With the acceleration of people's pursuit of low-carbon life, the choice of the car is not limited to comfort and safety. LED as a green lighting applications in the field of automotive lighting demand will grow steadily for a long time. Since LED prices fell and enhance the luminous efficiency, makes the LED in vehicle applications from the car lighting, and gradually developed into third directions, lights, brake lights and tail lights, 2008, TOYOTA 2008 Lexus LS600Ch is equipped with a front headlights in the world's first application of LED. Then the Audi R8 models also launched the world's first full LED headlamp, the first time that LED headlamp all functions into reality.

At present, the LED lamp luminous efficiency has been higher than the widely used traditional headlight performance, which means that LED headlights have the opportunity to officially entered the commercialization. However, from the current market, several models equipped with LED headlamps are priced at more than $100 thousand, is a luxury models. Volkswagen models are not equipped with LED headlamps is the main reason for the price of LED light source has been relatively high, to a certain extent, limiting the market sales of LED headlamps. So in the short term LED headlamps will still only in the LS600Ch, CLS Shooting Break Concept such high-end or concept car.

Nevertheless, many car manufacturers or the application of LED headlamps included in the agenda. According to Japan Koito automotive lamp production forecast, 2010, Japan has 5% sales of new cars equipped with LED headlamp, that is another 1-2 years of popular models are expected to be equipped with LED headlamp.