Carbon fiber composites is one of the materials used in many supercars today, mainly to reduce the weight of cars. There are mainly 5 advantages for carbon fiber applied to cars: light weight, security, comfort, reliability, high level of vehicle body development.

● Light weight

When carbon fiber is applied to automobile, the most obvious benefit is light weight. And the most direct impact is the improvement of energy saving, acceleration and braking performance. Generally speaking, 10% decrease of vehicle weight leads 6%-8% decrease of fuel consumption, emissions decrease 5-6%, acceleration increased by 8-10% from 0-100km/h, and braking distance is shortened by 2-7m.

● Safety

The lightweight can make the gravity of vehicle move down, improve the vehicle handling stability. Vehicle will be more safe and stable when driving. Carbon fiber composite materials have excellent energy absorption rate, collision energy absorption capacity is 6 to 7 times that of steel, 3 to 4 times that of aluminum, which further ensures the safety of the car.

● Comfort

Carbon fiber composite material has higher vibration damping. Light alloy needs 9 seconds to stop vibration, carbon fiber can stop in 2 seconds. So carbon fiber works for NVH (noise, vibration and acoustic roughness) better, and itl greatly enhance the car ride comfort.

● Reliability

Carbon fiber composites have higher fatigue strength. The fatigue strength of steel and aluminum is 30-50% of the tensile strength, while that of carbon fiber composites can reach 70-80%. Therefore, the application of carbon fiber composites in automobiles can greatly improve the fatigue reliability of materials.

● High level of vehicle body development

Because the carbon fiber composite material can be designed better than the metal, it is easier to develop the vehicle body platform, modularization, integration. In this way, the hybrid body structure of carbon fiber body and metal platform can be modularized and integrated for the traditional automobile body structure, which can greatly reduce the types of parts, reduce tooling investment and shorten the development time.