叙述了钛在减轻汽车自重、节约燃油、保护环境、降低噪声、提高汽车性能方面的优势和应用领域及趋势。介绍并评价了几种降低海绵钛与钛材成本的工艺技术。

The advantages offered by titanium materials to the automotive industry including reducing vehicle weight, improving fuel economics, protecting environment, lowering noise and optimizing performance, application areas and application tendency are described. Low cost production technologies of sponge titanium and titanium materials are introduced and evaluated.