To help the driver’s eyes return to the road more quickly, Continental has integrated haptic signals into touch-sensitive surfaces. At the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, the company will show how consumer electronics and infotainment are becoming more and more intertwined in vehicles.

Continental, one of the leading automotive suppliers worldwide, is building a new tech center to expand its capabilities for testing emission, homologation and calibration on gasoline and diesel engines. The company is setting its cornerstone in the Salto Industrial Park – in the interior of São Paulo State, 120 kilometers from the Capital - where around 500 people already work at the local Continental Powertrain facility. Brazilian vehicle ma...

Continental will be supplying Ford with innovative turbochargers for the carmaker’s new engine platform. The three-cylinder direct injection gasoline engines will generate 74 and 88 kilowatts from a displacement of just one liter. The engines are slated for installation initially in the 2012 Ford Focus and later, in the Ford C-Max and in the completely new Ford B-Max. Thanks to its fully automated assembly, enhanced thermodynamic efficiency and...

Continental is bundling everything it has in terms of electronics, instrumentation and ergonomics in a new cockpit for buses and coaches. With its flexible instrument cluster, versatile design and ample scope for additional, mobile terminals, it complements the existing portfolio of Classic and Individual models beautifully. With it, Continental offers automotive manufacturers an ideal solution for equipping buses and special vehicles.

Only just available on smartphones and laptops and already appearing in cars – and all at the flick of a finger: The Magic User Interface concept from Continental, the international automotive supplier, networks information for drivers in the simplest, most intelligent and elegant of ways, providing innovative applications that open up completely new travel possibilities. As we spend an increasing amount of time in our cars, expectations in thi...

Continental is now bringing its expertise in instrumentation for trucks, vans, buses and special-purpose vehicles to the booming motorcycle market under its VDO brand: with a wide product range extending from individual indicators through to modular clusters and fully integrated digital cockpits, the company caters to all market segments. These instrumentation products can be tailored just as effectively to small and low-cost mopeds as to luxurio...

Inertial sensors measure how a vehicle turns and accelerates. This makes them useful for a wide range of tasks. By transferring the sensor technology that it developed for passenger cars and commercial vehicles to agricultural vehicles and their accessory equipment, Continental is able to offer attractive solutions that are optimized for these applications.

By fusing driving dynamics sensor information with GPS data, Continental, the international automotive supplier, will make it possible in future to determine the precise position of a vehicle within its lane. The new M2XPro (Motion information 2 X Provider) sensor uses an intelligent fusion algorithm to provide other control units with a vehicle's motion information together with a precise time base. The ability to determine the vehicle's positio...

The global mega trend to reduce the dependency on fossil fuels to bring down transportation related CO2 emissions has pushed the use of an increasing number of alternative fuels. These fuels include bio diesels produced from various ester origins, and fuels with ethanol content (E10+). As the regional strategies to overcome foreign oil dependency vary, modern world cars will need to be prepared for diverse fuel qualities. Continental, the interna...

The combined lane and lane keeping assistant systems in the Ford Focus were named as the winners of the test in issue 32 of Auto Bild magazine. Lane Keep Assist is based on a camera sensor system developed by Continental; it monitors the road area in front of the vehicle and its analysis module determines the vehicle's position in relation to the road markings.

Continental is now creating the conditions for making commercial vehicle drive systems in China cleaner, more economical and more efficient by transferring the know-how also to commercial vehicle applications.

Virtual Keys, interactive screens, magical buttons on glass or metal – Continental is showing new vehicle features based on cost effective system integration.

A new production line for engine control units is planned. The local company will be renamed Continental Automotive Systems Rus

Continental's Architecture Migration Demonstrator shows how a vehicle automation system with basic functions can be developed using the technologies available today. The system could soon be developed further into series production.

The average driver in the UK could save nearly £300 a year by using eco driving techniques according to research by Continental Tyres.

Continental will add a stereo camera to the comprehensive ContiGuard safety system as an integral element of its forward looking braking systems. This will help prevent or at least reduce the seriousness of the frequent accidents involving pedestrians or with vehicles at intersections; to date, accidents like these make up almost half (46.6 percent) of those traffic accidents in Germany that result in major personal injury.

The first round-the-world trip with an electric car is coming to a successful end: After 30,000 km, Nina and Hjalte Tin from Denmark are soon to reach their destination – the Danish capital of Copenhagen. Their car, an electrically powered Nissan Quasquai, was fitted with Continental tires for the round-the-world trip. As a lower rolling resistance is particularly important for cars with an electric drive – due to the lower rolling resistance...

The car of tomorrow will drive under electrical power but will also still be powered by a classical combustion engine for the foreseeable future. Automotive suppliers and vehicle manufacturers will need to maintain their expertise in a whole variety of drive concepts for many years to come and must continue to develop them across the board in order to overcome the challenges they face, particularly those posed by more stringent legislation, said ...

Continental AG, the international automotive supplier, is equipped with a broad range of innovative system solutions for tackling the challenges of developing direct injection gasoline engines still further. An extensive package of measures for the air-fuel system and for the ignition is needed in order to meet stricter fuel consumption and particulate emission requirements, said Gerhard Böhm, head of the Engine Systems Business Unit in Continen...

Displays play an ever increasing part in the instrumentation of vehicle cockpits. The international automotive supplier Continental has developed a new display and control concept that has already found its way into the first pre-development projects with vehicle manufacturers.