With the rapid development of new forces of car making, the development of auto parts has ushered in new demands and broad space. According to Wall Street Insight, air suspension systems will reach an inflection point in the industry in the next two years. What is air suspension? What should be the core focus of this technology? The following will be detailed analysis for you.
Originally, the air suspension system only appeared in high-end automobile brands, and the price was between 100-300W. The lowest price of models equipped with air suspension system in passenger cars was also about 70W. With the development of new forces in car making, such as Tesla Model Ely, Model S and NIO ET7, new energy vehicles equipped with air suspension have begun a new chapter of the era. It is worth paying attention to that geely’s Krypton 001 and Chery’s Landu FREE are all equipped with air suspension system, and the price of the whole vehicle is about 30W. This shows that air suspension opens the market space for mid-range models, and the penetration rate will increase significantly in two years. What’s the reason and logic behind this? With those questions in mind, In this post, Wall Street Insight & Insight Research answers three questions:
1. Why does air suspension stand out from many suspension systems
2. Why do new forces choose air suspension
3. How big is the global market and the Chinese market
First, the early application of air suspension
First up, a brief introduction to the role of air suspension on a car so you can understand it.
In the early days, air suspension was mainly used in medium and above passenger cars, in addition, more than 40% of trucks, trailers and tractors will be used, very few passenger cars.
The important role of air suspension is to improve the automobile damping performance, so as to bring ride comfort. It can be seen that it was mainly used in heavy-duty vehicles in the early stage. Since then, high-end, expensive models and high-quality SUVs have adopted air suspension.
For example, SUV equipped with air suspension in the desert and snow road can be detected by the body level sensor, dynamic adjustment of the chassis height, change the tire and the ground direct friction so as to prevent tire skid. The addition of air suspension is intended to improve vehicle handling and bring a more comfortable experience, but due to the high cost of air suspension, it has been limited to high-end car applications.
If air suspension is too expensive to use in mass passenger cars, what does it use for shock absorption in regular models? What’s so important about air suspension?
Second, there are many kinds of suspension systems. Why does air suspension win?
In the decision of car stability, comfort and safety of the functional components, suspension system is essential, but there are many types, such as McPherson, double fork arm, multi-link, double link, active suspension, air suspension and so on.
The simple type is the support system of the body formed by the link between the spring, shock absorber and the frame between the body and the tire.
Suspension includes independent and non-independent two kinds, from the figure can be very clear understanding, non-independent suspension is in one side of the wheel spring through the middle of the axle and drive the other side of the wheel spring; On the contrary, independent suspension is both sides of the wheel ups and downs do not affect each other, independent of each other.
Post time: Jun-28-2022