LED taillights will be the next few years, the fastest growing car lights

According to China's Taiwan region ITRI IEK expected, LED lamp market will grow from $690 million in 2007 to $1 billion 200 million in 2011, 8% in terms of market penetration, compound annual growth rate of 13%. Among them, the current global penetration of LED brake lights has been high, is expected to slow down the growth of the strength of the following, as far as the headlight LED lamp is currently difficult to compete with HID, is expected to 2011 penetration of only about 3%. LED taillights will be the next few years the fastest growing car lights, with the popularity of the car in 2011 LED taillights market penetration will be about 15% this year, a substantial increase of up to 28%, Asia will be the largest growth areas.

Deputy director and trends ITRI industrial economics research center of digital technology in the field of Lin Zhixun pointed out that the current car market is mainly divided into the inside and outside of the car in two major areas, the main structure comprises a casing and a light source group, but with the development of the advanced light source system, the lamp structure is becoming more and more complicated. Affected by the global economic downturn, the global auto market in the short term is expected to shrink, according to the I-Supply research data show that the size of the global auto market in 2011 to about 73 million vehicles in Asia (by the Chinese mainland market will remain the growth center). In the energy cost factors, automotive energy saving technology is the focus of future development.

Due to light market development also entered the mature period, the advanced light source system has become the key to the development of light. 2007 global automotive market size of $13 billion 200 million, is expected to grow to $15 billion by 2011. Among them, LED lighting market size of about $690 million, but the StrategiesUmlimited is expected to 2011, the global LED lighting market will grow to $1 billion 200 million, LED lamp market penetration on 8%, compound annual growth rate of 13%.

The main reason is LED lamp with low power consumption, no mercury, adjustable light, high color, long service life, reliable advantages, short reaction time, and the LED lamp has the advantages of small size, light weight and presents the point light source, can not only improve the driving safety, but also can improve the car use and space create a car in the sense of superiority, considering safety and design, make LED lamp widely used.

Among them, especially in the tail light application and market penetration, the growth of the largest. The main reason is Fuchs with Passat and HondaAccord annual sales of one million units of national car import LED technology, considering the high energy LED taillights in the development of HybridCar space with white LED, and began to apply in the reversing lamp, LED taillights use will grow rapidly. StrategiesUmlimited is expected, LED taillights market penetration in 2008 about 15%, but by 2011 the market penetration will grow to 28%.

Other applications, according to the StrategiesUmlimited research shows that the source LED application in the car market share up to 60% in the third brake light market penetration in Europe, the car instrument lamp application market penetration has reached 90%, while the global LED third brake light market penetration is about 50%. Due to the application of the vehicle light source and brake light penetration has been high, is expected to follow the growth is relatively slow.

Headlights, LED headlamp is currently still facing technical barriers to overcome. Including luminous flux, cost and usage habits and other factors, so that the LED can not compete with the HID in the headlight market in the short term, the need to Asahi line lights and fog lamp application development. Since the LED in the headlight market will continue to be a high priority in the short term, is expected to 2011 global share of only about 3%.

Individual markets, LED application area by 2007, North America accounted for 38% of the market and the European market accounted for 37% of the highest. Lin Zhixun said that the United States will usually be faster to use new technology, but Europe is usually the application of new technology is mature, the rapid development of the region, which is the two markets are not the same interesting.

However, because LED lights still have low luminous flux, luminous efficiency, color uniformity, heat dissipation and high cost, coupled with the temperature change of automobile use environment greatly, this is derived from the reliability problem of LED lamps. Overall, the current LED lights are still in the form of the introduction of the market, with the standard StandardInGaNLED as the main product type, the use of high power or high current LED ratio is still low.