What are the benefits of carbon fiber materials?

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The benefits of carbon fiber materials are as follows: 1. High performance: Carbon fiber possesses a series of excellent properties that are irreplaceable by other materials, such as being lightweight, high strength, high modulus, high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, erosion and splash resistance, as well as good designability and composability. 2. Lightweight: The most obvious benefit of applying carbon fiber to automobiles is vehicle lightweighting, which directly affects energy savings, acceleration, and braking performance improvements. Generally, a 10% reduction in vehicle weight leads to a 6% to 8% reduction in fuel consumption, a 5% to 6% reduction in emissions, an 8% to 10% improvement in 0-100km/h acceleration, and a 2 to 7-meter reduction in braking distance. 3. Safety: Lightweighting the body can lower the vehicle's center of gravity, improving handling stability and making the vehicle safer and more stable. Carbon fiber composites have excellent energy absorption rates, with crash energy absorption capabilities six to seven times that of steel and three to four times that of aluminum, further ensuring vehicle safety. 4. Comfort: Carbon fiber composites have higher vibration damping; light alloys take 9 seconds to stop vibrating, while carbon fiber composites take only 2 seconds. 5. Reliability: Carbon fiber composites have higher fatigue strength. The fatigue strength of steel and aluminum is 30-50% of their tensile strength, whereas carbon fiber composites can reach 70-80%. Therefore, the application of carbon fiber composites in automobiles significantly improves material fatigue reliability. 6. Enhancing body development: Due to the superior designability of carbon fiber composites compared to metals, they facilitate platformization, modularization, and integration in body development. Thus, the hybrid body structure of carbon fiber and metal platforms can achieve modularization and integration compared to traditional automobile body structures, greatly reducing the number of parts, decreasing tooling investment, and shortening the development cycle.