Analysis and forecast of vehicle LED market size

According to world auto production statistics before the World Automobile Manufacturers Association released the 2009 world car production totaled 60 million 990 thousand vehicles. China rose to the world's largest car producer, the annual output grew by 48.3%, to the top of the 13 million 790 thousand. China's auto production and sales in 2010 is expected to exceed 15 million new record highs.

According to the relevant research institutions predict with Asia especially the continued growth of Chinese auto market and LED backlight and lighting applications is becoming more and more mature and the cost is reduced continuously, the global automotive LED market in 2010-2012 years will be a 15% annual rate of expansion, the market size in 2012 from $4 billion 180 million in 2006, increased to 12 billion dollars. Car sales in the next 10 years will be times the current LED. After the LED lighting in the interior automotive has been widely used now, including promoting REFOND and other domestic and foreign manufacturers, LED is gradually to the car headlights, taillights and other products showing a transition from inside to outside, from a forward development trend. In the next few years, with the increase in the level of vehicle lighting technology and cost reduction, LED applications will further increase. The Honda accord, Teana, crown, Reiz, Cadillac series, Buick Royaum models have adopted the LED lighting technology.

2009 although the vehicle LED market growth rate is slow, but the EU is currently promoting the day light regulation, will take off the LED market with EMU, continue to expand the application scope of the LED from the original car brake lights, lamps, car room lighting and other fields, the future use of the car dashboard, portable DVD CD-ROM and vehicle navigation system 5~10 inch LCD panel backlight, automobile headlight using white LED will become the driving force of the market growth.

With headlights LED as an example, a Japanese car factory TOYOTA listed in May 2007 of the "LexusLS600h" as the world's first LED models equipped with headlights. In the same year, the German Audi car R8 also equipped with LED lights. LS600h only uses a white LED in the low beam lights, while the R8 and CadillacEscaladePlatinum low beam lights and high beam lights all use a white LED. The LS600h lamp, R8 Nichia supplier for the United States PhilipsLumiledsLighting, as a supplier for the German OSRAM CadillacEscaladePlatinum lamp.

Published by Japan's Fuji Chimera comprehensive study of global white LED market survey report shows that although the LED market accounted for the entire White LED market for the small proportion of car lights as the center of the car, but the future is expected to achieve significant growth. Expected headlight restrictions will be relaxed, coupled with the brightness of the white LED increase, by 2012, the amount of white light LED car will be a significant increase in both quantity and amount.

The sustained growth of the LED market size for car, plus the average gross interest rates generally above 20%, so LED manufacturers actively involved in this field. But Taiwan pointed out that because the car headlights at the threshold of heat dissipation, reliability, brightness high demand has been recognized by the use of the LED car factory manufacturers are mainly Nichias, Osram and other international manufacturers, the main factory in Taiwan LED market, or in the car tail lights and interior lights such as dashboard backlight. If the light is a major supplier of Dayi billion, the East Bay supply to Nissan small car, and also for Hongqi dashboard backlight LED OEM manufacturers. In terms of the amount and quantity of shipments, billion light is currently in Taiwan area LED car shipments larger manufacturers, but this part of the total revenue accounted for only a small share of the total revenue.

In addition, the development speed of some enterprises Chinese Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta region is also very fast, in recent years the product quality has been significantly improved, to win a certain market. Which Shenzhen REFOND with small and medium size in the car dashboard, car audio, car DVD, car LCD backlight is the domestic brand car manufacturer of optoelectronic devices mainstream providers, has advantages in resistance development, high temperature materials, color fluorescent powder technology products vibration resistance performance and other aspects of automotive applications.

Overall, with the development of the automotive market and the LED light emitting assembly technical level, the decline in product prices, LED combination taillights, LED brake lights, LED lights will become the mainstream of China's car lamp configuration, but also for other domestic REFOND LED manufacturers to bring a huge market opportunity. Expected in 2010 China's LED pre installed market (OEM supporting the market), LED combination taillights, LED central high brake lights, automotive meter backlight and other LED lights will reach 5 billion yuan matching.