World premiere of Conti GreenConcept: Continental unveils particularly sustainable tire concept. Technology company showcases expertise in new platform architectures and high-performance vehicle computers. CEO Nikolai Setzer: “Our goal is and will continue to be global technology leadership when it comes to assisted and automated driving”. Retro meets future: AMBIENC3 concept vehicle is presented to the world for the first time and combines driving, working and relaxing in one interior.

Driver assistance systems and automated driving are gaining acceptance worldwide. In China and Japan in particular, openness to the benefits of automated driving is already high, while people in Germany, France and the USA continue to have a wait-and-see attitude. Overall, the technological possibilities in terms of automated driving are far more advanced than the current willingness of drivers to use them. The situation is different, however, for driver assistance systems – here there is a consistently high degree of openness in all five countries, especially when it comes to safety-related functions. These are the key findings of the latest Continental Mobility Study, in which the social research institute infas surveyed representative samples of around 1,000 people in each of the five countries above regarding their mobility habits.

Continental enables the use of reprocessed polyester obtained from recycled plastic bottles in its tire production as of 2022. The new sustainable polyester yarn will be obtained from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles by a mechanical process and will be used in the construction of the tire carcass.

Focus on infrastructure-based automated parking in parking garages and maneuvering in vehicle factories and logistics centers. Kopernikus Automotive provides a solution that can be cost-effectively implemented in any parking garage, hotel or airport. “In the future, cars in a factory, logistics centers and in parking garages will be moved autonomously. Kopernikus and. Continental are working together to develop a safe, comfortable and affordable solution,” says Ralph Lauxmann, head of Strategy and Future Solutions, Autonomous Mobility and Safety business unit at Continental. Collaboration between Continental and Kopernikus will be demonstrated live in action for the first time at IAA Mobility Munich 2021.

Vehicle computers continue to gain ground: Series production of domain-specific high-performance computers from Continental for more than 20 vehicle models from various manufacturers scheduled for 2021 and 2022. Orders for high-performance computers from Continental now with total sales volume of around 5 billion Euros. Course set for the future: Continental Automotive Edge Platform as the basis for cross-domain vehicle computers from Continental.

At portside, out in the fields, on rail and road, dirt tracks and high-speed freeways – no route is too challenging for the 200 vehicles operated by logistics and transport company HaGe-Logistik GmbH based in Kiel, northern Germany.

On the path towards autonomous driving, system integration capabilities are critical to the development. Only ten months after joining forces in partnership with LiDAR expert AEye, Continental is integrating the long-range LiDAR technology into its full sensor stack solution to create the first full stack automotive-grade system for Level 2+ up to Level 4 automated and autonomous driving applications.

ATE Ceramic ranks highest in a comparison with five other brake systems. Outstanding safety and durability: top score for wear resistance, second-best rating for braking distance.

Continental is expanding its Industry 4.0 expertise in predictive maintenance and remote condition monitoring for automotive, industrial and manufacturing applications Philip Nelles, ContiTech CEO: “Sensor integration into both new and existing product lines supports our ongoing transformation toward smart and sustainable solutions beyond rubber”. Sensor technology is up to 50 times more sensitive than current competitive standards. Potential for electric vehicles: Sensors can be retrofitted to hose lines to improve thermal management by optimizing battery life and range. Additional potential for remote condition monitoring and predictive maintenance applications, e.g. for industrial hoses for the food and beverage industry.

Continental, the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France have received a grant worth 43 million core hours of supercomputer time for their joint basic research project. The project, which aims to drive fundamental understanding of tire and road wear particles, has been in existence since 2014. Its goal is to learn more about the decomposition of rubber polymers to better understand the wear behavior of tires. The associated simulations of the behavior of complex polymer structures are very time-consuming. For this reason, the project partners applied for the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) initiative. With the digital computing power granted, they now have the opportunity to perform polymer simulations in greater depth and on a broader scale.