Continuous growth for tires in the electromobility segment: Continental equips electric cars with tires at factories all over the world. Majority of Continental's current tire lines fit on electric vehicles, including those of the Tesla, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Kia, BYD or Ford brands.

Product launch: Continental brings all-weather-tires ContiRV20 All Season to the market for airport ground handling vehicles. New tire tread pattern profile ensures maximum ground contact and traction in all weather conditions.

In the summer tire tests of the German ADAC, Austrian ÖAMTC and Swiss TCS automobile associations, the PremiumContact 6 in size 215/60 R 16 from Continental was awarded the highest possible ratings in each case (adac.de/news/sommerreifentest-2022).It received the rating “Good” from the ADAC, while the Austrian and Swiss automobile clubs rated it as “Highly recommended.”

Continental’s OEM-quality thermostats for the aftermarket can be ordered now. Four product groups: replacement, cartridge, housing and map-controlled thermostats. Fast startup: 70 percent market coverage at launch, already almost 90 percent in target markets for the coming year.

With its tiny house, the technology company Continental has achieved something that construction and furniture suppliers have long dreamed of: equiping an entire house with nothing but its own materials – inside and out.

Commercial vehicle manufacturer IVECO enhances its fleet management services with Continental’s VDO Fleet TIS-Web solution. TIS-Web facilitates tachograph data management and provides insightful analyses and more efficiency to fleet managers to optimize their operations. IVECO customers have direct access to TIS-Web tachograph data via Application Programming Interface (API).

Continental is revolutionizing the charging of electric vehicles. Together with startup Volterio, Continental’s development and production service provider Continental Engineering Services (CES) is developing an intelligent charging robot that will make filling up with electricity much easier and more convenient in the future. To this end, CES and Volterio have now officially entered into a partnership that will see the latter develop the first near-production systems for the jointly designed charging robot by mid-2022.

The technology company Continental supplies essential elements for an intuitive and attractive user experience in the new BMW iX. In response to vehicle digitalization, the electric vehicle integrates Continental’s Cockpit High Performance Computer. It manages the increasing software complexity as well as the rapidly growing functional scope in the cockpit. The computer also provides the necessary computing power for the functions in the supplier’s head-up display and the large-scale display landscape in the vehicle. Together with the driver camera integrated in the digital instrument cluster,

Continental and SHARE NOW Denmark are broadening their partnership. The move follows a successful collaboration between the two companies as part of a pilot project on tread depth monitoring for the car-sharing service’s fleet that is set to run until mid-2022. In the future, SHARE NOW Denmark will have a Conti360° Solutions contract in place to handle all tire management for its fleet of around 700 vehicles. Close to 65 percent of these are electrically powered, while 35 percent have a combustion engine.

With the new UltraContact, a summer tire for fleets and end customers, Continental is taking to the trends of the changing mobile society. What they have in common is the call for more sustainability, including in tires. This approach is not only resource-saving, but also very cost-effective – because a tire that combines long service life and robust design also saves on purchase costs.