LED car headlights within 10 years can not become mainstream

According to the researchinchina, although LED has many advantages, but the cost of LED, and the xenon lamp is very wide. LED prices will decline, but also has the potential to exploit the cost of xenon lamp, the price will be further improved, still ahead of LED. Xenon lamp power consumption is also better than LED. LED the most difficult heat problem will be difficult to solve in a short time, which is the biggest obstacle to LED headlights. 10 years LED headlights are not likely to become mainstream.

Xenon lamp popularity will be more and more widely, from the earliest luxury car with extended to the intermediate vehicle with models, the future may be the intermediate vehicle standard xenon lamp. However, in the field of compact cars and small cars, halogen lamp cost advantage is obvious, the upper limit of the xenon lamp is about 32%. LED is not without hope, at the end of 2009 Audi A8 on the xenon lamp for LED. LED in terms of performance is more comprehensive, especially the rain and snow, the performance over xenon lamp.

China market, the penetration rate of xenon lamp is much higher than the world, because of the Chinese luxury car market growth first in the world. It is expected that by 2014, China's car xenon lamp penetration rate will rise from 5% in 2009 to 26%. China's civilian car sales growth in 2010 dropped, while luxury car sales surge.

Before 2010 May, three German luxury brand BMW, Mercedes Benz and Audi global sales growth of just over 10%, but the three major brands in China in May year-on-year sales growth reached 107%, 118% and 39.9%. In the first half of 2010, FAW - Volkswagen Audi brand sales totaled 108600 units, has exceeded the cumulative sales of the first 9 months of last year, an increase of up to 64%. Domestic Audi models cumulative sales of 93993, an increase of 57%, while the first half of the import of Audi models new car sales of 14607, an increase of up to 139%. The contrast is the civilian car on behalf of BYD in the first half of F32010 growth of only 1.97%, an increase of 10.32% negative Excelle, Jetta 1.93%, 2.68% Yue, the Elantra is minus 4.44%, minus 38.4% santana.

Three major Japanese car lighting enterprises, Koito and light and Stanley stability. Although Koito is TOYOTA group enterprise, but in the German car field gains a lot, especially Shanghai Volkswagen, Koito accounted for more than 40% of the proportion of the supply, to snatch some of the market of the company. Stanley in the American car field position, robbed of Delphi and Visteon market. City Light confined to the Japanese market, difficult to live. The three major European automotive lighting companies Valeo, Hella and Marilyn (AL) poor performance. Especially under the Fiat marilyn. Korean Moebius and three li, is not only a monopoly of Korean car market, also occupy a part of GM's market.

In 2009 2008, the global automotive lighting manufacturers market share:

2008, 2009 global automotive lighting market share

LED headlights within 10 years can not become the mainstream