BEIJING, China — Frbiz.com, one of China’s leading B2B search platforms, forecasts trends in China’s 2010 LED car lamp market.

In 2008, LED lighting was used in less than 3.7 percent of China’s domestic auto manufacturing. LED lighting’s major development restraint in the Chinese market is primarily a cost issue. LED chip production technology is difficult, and the process of crystallization has strict requirements on temperature, humidity, power supply and dust contamination.

Currently, LED chips are mainly produced in Taiwan, which accounts for 47 percent of China’s LED market share. The LED factories in China only facilitate the resin encapsulation process. The chip requires a lot of imported manufactured technology, which accounts for the higher cost. Low-quality products abound in the Chinese car lamp market, and industry and consumer awareness of LED lights is low, helping to make conventional lighting the enduring standard.

Currently, LED brake lights are the most common product in the auto LED market. Larger, more extensive LED taillights are still in the initial stages of development. China has some joint venture deals with vehicle LED taillight producers, and automotive LED combination taillights should become a hot item in China’s automotive market in the coming years.

At present, in listed new high-end models, LED taillights are becoming the industry norm. China’s LED car lamp applications are expected to become increasingly popular, eventually spreading to low-end models. The future development trend of automotive LED lamps will be high-power white headlights, high-power white signal lights, headlamps, front fog lamps, reversing lights and so on. Overall, in about 10 years, LED lighting will become a mainstream product in vehicle manufacturing.