Continental tyres at the 65th IAA Commercial Vehicles Show
Continental, one of the world’s leading automotive suppliers, is presenting new products and innovations at the 65th IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hanover, Germany. You can find an overview of all products and service solutions below.
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Automated Driving for Commercial Vehicles
Continental is also developing automated driving for commercial vehicles
- Assistance systems are making commercial vehicles not only safer but also more
comfortable and efficient
- The electronic horizon allows vehicles to “see around the corner”
- Continental’s environment sensors form the basis for fully automated driving
Continental is paving the path toward automated driving even in the field of commercial vehicles. To achieve this, the international supplier to the automotive industry is continuously developing and extending current driver assistance systems. This will make the transport of goods and people not only safer, but also more efficient and comfortable. With high-performance components, systems and intelligent software, the automotive supplier offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions that will make it possible to meet tomorrow’s ever more exacting mobility demands without difficulty. At the IAA Commercial Vehicles trade show, Continental will be presenting innovative products and offering an insight into the capabilities of fully automated commercial vehicles.
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Intelligent Transportation Systems
The TruckYa! app from VDO: For truckers, it makes finding a place to park a lot easier – and it’s digital
- Smartphone app is a response to the scarcity of parking spaces in rest areas – and
improves the quality of rest periods
- Users comprise a virtual community, the most important element of TruckYa!
- Software to be available this year in eight European countries
There is strength in numbers: thanks to a new software tool, truckers are no longer left to fend for themselves when looking for a place to park. TruckYa!, the revolutionary smartphone app from VDO, a trademark of Continental AG, pools the knowledge of a virtual trucker community and displays the capacity of highway rest areas in real time. The users themselves are the most important element in this information network.
By sharing their information about available space via smartphone, the members of the trucker community progressively make the system better and more reliable – a highly effective response to the scarcity of parking space in Europe’s rest areas.
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VDO TIS Web Lite: New fleet management software with core benefits
- VDO TIS Web Lite has been developed to meet the requirements of companies that
do not need the entire functionality of the full version of TIS Web
- Functions such as activity logs and archiving simplify fleet management tasks
- TIS Web Lite is available at an attractive price that is scaled as a function of the
managed fleet
TIS Web, VDO’s comprehensive and popular fleet management system, is now also available for fleets that do not need all the functionality provided by the full version. With TIS Web Lite, VDO has developed a management software product that combines all the advantages of a Web-based fleet management solution, available at an attractive price and featuring a large range of additional customer benefits.
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Sustainable Products and Solutions
Cameras to replace external mirrors: Continental ProViu®Mirror makes commercial vehicles safer and more efficient
- Pioneering technology provides greater safety, efficiency and comfort than
external mirrors
- Camera modules maximise the field of view and reduce the blind spot
-Displays in the driver’s cab simplify anticipative driving
High precision and uncompromising reliability. These are properties that Continental insists on in every one of its electronic solutions – with the ProViu®Mirror, they have reached astonishing new heights. This forward-looking camera system is the revolutionary alternative to exterior mirrors.
As a specialist in the fields of video processing, display technology and camera applications, Continental combines all the expertise present in the diverse components of the revolutionary ProViu®Mirror system in a single solution – and offers not only the innovative high-tech modules that form the system, but also comprehensive service from a single source. The technology used in commercial vehicles and special-purpose vehicles maximises driving safety while simultaneously reducing fuel consumption by improving the vehicle’s aerodynamic properties. This supplier to the automotive industry will be presenting the ProViu®Mirror for the first time at the IAA Commercial Vehicles trade show.
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Continental Focuses on Reducing Emissions in Commercial Vehicles
- IAA 2014 Hanover: Continental is globally active in creating new technology aimed
at reducing emissions and fuel consumption – new localized production in China
and the U.S.
- New products: injection pump for medium duty commercial vehicles, innovative sensors, SCR-injectors, and dosing systems
- Complete integration of the exhaust-gas technology specialist Emitec brings important advantages
Exhaust-gas after treatment is increasingly becoming a key technology in commercial vehicles. In Europe, where the Euro VI standard has been in force since 2014, all new vehicles must have selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology to comply with the NOx limits. In China from 2015, commercial vehicles will only be registered if they comply with Euro IV. The international automotive supplier Continental views these decisions as validation of its strategy.
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Emitec advances emission reduction in commercial vehicles
- Exhaust gas after-treatment concept for EURO VI: smaller, lightweight, more efficient and less complex
- Product portfolio to support growth and new markets in Asia
- Integration of Emitec into the new Continental business unit Fuel & Exhaust Management (FEM) combines strengths in the product portfolio
At the 65th IAA Commercial Vehicles show Emitec presents new concepts to optimise exhaust gas after-treatment in accordance with the valid Euro VI standard. Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) plays a key part in this to meet NOx limits. To minimise emissions, Emitec offers highly efficient catalytic converters based on metal substrates, PM-Metalit particle filters, and SCR dosing systems, all of which are comprehensively proven in many volume applications.
The recent integration of Emitec into Continental Powertrain has formed a joint expertise which ranges from injection and engine control to questions of system configuration to sensors which measure and monitor the exhaust gas quality as well as the oxygen contents in the intake manifold on to the exhaust gas after-treatment components. “This offers the ideal prerequisites for the continued optimisation of emissions and fuel efficiency”, says Dr. Markus Distelhoff, Head of the new Continental Powertrain Business Unit Fuel & Exhaust Management (FEM).
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ContiTech at the IAA: Supply Trends for Commercial Vehicles
- Scratch-resistant surfaces make commercial vehicles more comfortable and economical
- Continental Air Spring Leveling System: valve function integrated
- Today's hose lines: lighter and more heat resistant
- Tomorrow's hose lines: solutions for waste heat recovery and dual fuel
- CONTI® HEAVY DUTY POWER: drive belts last up to 500,000 km
Scratch-resistant surface materials for the driver's cab interior, a new design for safety tanks, oil and coolant hoses for high-temperature applications, a drive belt that lasts 500,000 km, and the new Continental Air Spring Leveling System are some of the highlights that ContiTech will present during IAA Commercial Vehicles 2014 at the Continental booth in Hall 17, Stand A06.
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Continental presents first test tyres made from dandelion rubber Taraxagum™
- First test tyres built from dandelion rubber
- Taraxagum brand established for dandelion rubber
- Serial production expected within 10 years
The international tyre manufacturer and automotive supplier Continental has reached an important milestone in its research project for the industrialisation of dandelion rubber in tyre production.
During the International Motor Show (IAA) Commercial Vehicles in Hanover, Continental presented the first test tyres made from the innovative material that the company is calling Taraxagum, derived from the botanical name for dandelion (taraxacum). The natural rubber in the treads of the test tyres was completely replaced with Taraxagum. This important step takes Continental even closer to reaching its goal of making tyre production more sustainable and less dependent from traditional raw materials.
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The New Continental Commercial Vehicle Tyres for Freight Transportation
- Conti EcoPlus product range for primary use on freeways
- Conti Hybrid for regional and distribution transport
- Conti Scandinavia for winter use
- ContiRe – 3rd generation retreaded premium tyres
At the 65th IAA Commercial Vehicles Show, Continental has continued to develop its range of commercial vehicle and coach tyres, first launched in mid-2013. Once the new tyre range had been successfully established for commercial passenger traffic, Continental proceeded with the new generation of tyres in the lorry and truck segment.
At the international trade show in Hanover, the German automotive supplier displayed its new 3rd generation steer-axle, drive wheel, and trailer tyres for the goods segment. The new Conti tyres for freight transportation are optimised for maximum customer benefit to further lower fleet costs.
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Continental presents latest developments and trends of its commercial vehicle business
During its press conference at the International Motor Show (IAA) Commercial Vehicles in Hanover, international tire manufacturer and automotive supplier Continental presented the latest developments and trends within its commercial vehicle business.
Continental is continuing to pursue its growth strategy in the commercial vehicle business, as 20 of its 28 business units from all five divisions are active in this field. Building on its competencies in the tire and automotive sector, Continental is increasingly becoming a solution provider. “As a premium tire manufacturer and the biggest electronics supplier in the automotive industry with a strong technological product portfolio, we are in a perfect position to develop integrated solutions for our customers in the transport industry,” says Nikolai Setzer, member of the Executive Board of Continental and responsible for the Tire Division. This was also an important next step for Continental’s commercial vehicle tire business, which has been complementing its core offer, the product tires, with services for professional tire management for a number of years now.
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New Additional Function Simplifies Tyre Detection
Continental has added a new feature to its successful ContiPressureCheck™ tyre pressure monitoring system. Automatic Trailer Learning (ATL) can now monitor the condition of tyres on trucks and trailers much more easily and practically. Semitrailer tractors with ATL can automatically and wirelessly detect each trailer tyre equipped with ContiPressureCheck sensors. This means that the tyre pressure monitoring for the trailer matches up with that of the tractor vehicle, even if the semitrailer is frequently changed.
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Belle Moss, Automotive PR
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Notes to editors:
For more information on Continental, contact:
Communications Officer, Mark Griffiths on 01895 425983 or 07500 049720 or mark.griffiths@conti.de
Note to editors:
Continental Tyres in the UK and Ireland is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Continental Corporation. With sales of around €33.3 billion in 2013, Continental is one of the world’s leading automotive suppliers. As a provider of tyres, brake systems, systems and components for powertrains and chassis, instrumentation, infotainment solutions, vehicle electronics and technical elastomers, Continental contributes to enhanced driving safety and global climate protection.
Continental is also an expert partner in networked automobile communication. Continental currently employs around 186,000 people in 49 countries.