What is the future direction of the car? New energy, light weight, environmental protection, intelligence, driverless … … Often read the information you will think of several keywords.

But whether it's from greenhouse gas emissions to the waste of resources generated when cars are retired, the auto industry does face a continuing crisis.

In the future development direction of the automobile, we can find that environmental friendliness is a major direction of its development.

Recently Audi released its fourth generation of Audi A3 Sportback, this new model from technology development to production is still adhering to Audi's consistent concept of sustainable development core strategy. Among them, the interior of the car seat made of recycled raw materials will be a focus of attention.

It is reported that the interior of the car is built using PET plastic bottles as its raw materials, 45 PET plastic bottles with a capacity of 1.5 liters can create a seat system, and the carpet needs 62. The new car has a utilization rate of recycled materials of 89%, and also said that in the future, Audi will continue to try to use recycled materials to make the whole car seat, and will use recycled materials to make the concept of seat fabric in all Audi models.

Similarly, in the Precept concept car released recently by Volvo's Polestar brand, we also see the brand's growth plan to integrate environmental protection and technology into vehicle manufacturing. The interior of the car is a very minimalist style, which is very different from today's mainstream decoration style, and the interior is very spacious, which is also related to the "slimming" of the seats.

According to the data, the Precept concept car uses a 2x2 seat layout, seamless woven molding technology, and is made from recycled PET plastic bottles, which are slim and elegant, but still quite strong, and its carpet is made from recycled fishing nets. In addition, the interior of the car is also used such as cork fiber, natural linen composite materials, a series of slimming measures to reduce the weight of the interior of the vehicle by 50% compared with the traditional, which also gives the current automotive industry in addition to the development of new energy and lightweight contradiction between a solution.

And before this, Volvo has proposed that about 25% of plastic parts in 2025 come from renewable raw materials, including: Using fishing nets and cables to make the center console panel, PET bottles to make car seats, adding some clothing scraps to make carpets, and limited edition models will also use old seats from Volvo cars to make sound insulation under the hood.

In fact, in BMW, Toyota, Land Rover, Ford and other car brands are also trying to add the concept of recycled plastic to their products, at present are mostly based on interior decoration materials, in addition to the above mentioned car seat fabric, carpet, center console board surface, in the car column decorative board, visor, ceiling, cushion and other fields have also tried.

And the exterior decoration, the new generation of Jaguar Land Rover will cooperate with BASF , the use of domestic waste plastic after treatment by pyrolysis oil technology for the production of exterior parts, and this technology can be difficult to deal with the traditional process of plastic back into the cycle chain, and can be recycled into high-quality plastic.

Nowadays, more and more automobile brands have incorporated the concept of sustainability into the core of their development strategy, which is very necessary under the current pressure of many factors. The auto industry experienced a sales winter in 2019, which in itself shows that the current development of the auto industry is hindered. At present, the direction of light weight and new energy led by the concept of environmental protection is increasingly emerging, and countries are constantly encouraging the progress of automobile manufacturing technology to cater to this development trend.

Nowadays, the application of plastics in automobiles has been quite extensive, and many car companies are also committed to using more plastics to replace traditional metal materials to achieve the purpose of weight reduction, under this development trend, we have reason to believe that the automotive industry and plastics industry in the future will have a lot of cooperation space.

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