| As a growing community of products, the impact of cars on the human society is increasingly profound, especially for energy and the environment.With car ownership increased year by year, the oil resource consumption and carbon dioxide emissions will continue to show growth. The rapid development of modern science and technology to make automobile manufacturing materials undergone great changes, the proportion of high-density material decline in low-density material has increased greatly, from the beginning of the1990s, lightweight automotive materials, conserve resources, performance and highly functional direction:Apply aluminum, magnesium alloys, plastics, nano-materials in the automotive sector are on the development of the car had a major impact. Changes in automotive materials for saving energy, reducing emissions and achieve sustainable development strategy has a very active task. Application of new materials to achieve one of the main applications of automotive development, but also become an important technology issues facing today and in the future.From the body materials and interior materials both brief analysis of the current situation and development trend of automotive materials, automotive materials and the status of some foreign countries now. Lightweight concrete explanation of the car in the future of society and the dominant trend. Further illustrates the lightweight and environmentally friendly materials become the main direction of development of today’s automobile, iron and steel materials although it still maintains a dominant position, but the application of a variety of materials in the car proportions are changing, the main change is the high-strength steel and ultra high strength Some amount of steel and composite materials will have a larger growth. Lightweight materials will be more closely integrated automotive product design and production processes, automotive materials will also tend to multi-material design direction. Currently, research is the development of lightweight body and abroad lightweight high performance new materials with high strength and lightweight design of the new structure. Through years of exploration, has made new progress. Moreover, electric vehicles, alternative fuel vehicles, or some elderly scooter has become one of the policy development and application of automotive materials. |