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REPORT: Bentley considers going hybrid, rules out hydrogen

Bentley is on a mission to lower fuel consumption and carbon emissions. According to Auto Express, once the firm's Continental Supersports hits the market (and, we may add, after it actually becomes flex-fuel capable), the next step in the green train may very well be hybrids. To reach that conclusion, AE uses the process of elimination. Here's the reasoning: diesels don't historically sell well here in the United States, Bentley's largest market, so an oil-burner is out. Bentley has reportedly already ruled out hydrogen fuel cells, ... Read more →

REPORT: Bentley to delay flex-fuel capability for 2010 Continental Supersports Jeremy Korzeniewski

While the environmental merits of any 621 horsepower, twelve-cylinder behemoth that's capable of traveling at speeds of up to 204 miles per hour are, at the very least, debatable, Bentley hasn't ...

Continental gets innovation prize for its new production lithium battery Sam Abuelsamid

Continental Automotive has won an Intelligence for Traffic and Logistics prize from the Center for Transportation & Logistics Neuer Adler e.V. (CNA) in Nüremberg,Germany for its new lithium ...

Continental introduces its first turbocharger, coming in 2011 Sam Abuelsamid

With the overall automotive market at best stagnant in recent years and in complete free fall in the past year, one way for suppliers to expand their revenues is to get into new product areas. Thus ...

Tire pressure monitoring systems to become mandatory in the EU Xavier Navarro

The European Union is set to make tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) mandatory in 2012. This measure is intended to not only improve vehicle safety, but also to reduce CO2 emissions. Only ...

Geneva Preview: Bentley to reveal biofuel supercar 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

When the curtain rises on the 2009 Geneva Motor Show, Bentley will take a large share of the spotlight with the vehicle you see above. It has no name yet, and no technical specifics have been released, but what Bentley has revealed is that this will be the marque's fastest, most powerful ...

Auto supplier Continental working on hydro power 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A great deal of electricity is already provided by the movement of water in hydroelectric power plants. Usually, large turbines are placed just after dams or under waterfalls that spin as the water rushes past at high speed. There are other ways to generate power from the movement of water, though, ...

Lotus wins award for HOTFIRE engine that cuts CO2 by 15% 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Another of Lotus Engineering's research projects into more efficient motoring has been recognized. This time around, Project HOTFIRE received an accolade from The Engineer Technology + Innovation Awards 2008. HOTFIRE was a joint effort with Continental, University College London (UCL) and ...

Continental starts production of lithium ion batteries 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A week after Mercedes-Benz announced details of its first hybrid, battery supplier Continental Automotive has launched production of the battery packs. Mercedes will be the first manufacturer to mass produce a hybrid vehicles with lithium ion batteries. Continental spent €3 million to build ...

Lutz says a Volt battery supplier selected, won't say who 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At a preview of GM's 2009 model year lineup yesterday in Jolliet IL, Bob Lutz revealed that the production supplier for the Chevy Volt battery has been selected. Unfortunately, the GM Vice Chairman would not say which of the development suppliers had been selected. Two partnerships have been ...

Continental introduces force feedback accelerator pedal 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Video game players are used to force feedback controllers that provide a haptic response to user inputs. German automotive supplier Continental is now introducing an accelerator pedal that provides similar feedback to drivers in cars. The Accelerator Force Feedback Pedal (AFFP) is being initially ...

Continental wants to start producing lithium ion cells 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Continental, like its arch rival Bosch, is striving to stay relevant in a changing automotive landscape by expanding into new technology areas for hybrid and electric drive vehicles. One technology both companies are pursuing aggressively is lithium ion batteries. Continental will be supplying packs ...

Continental study identifies interest in emission free vehicles 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

German automotive supplier Continental AG commissioned a study of drivers in China, Germany, France, UK, Japan, Austria, Switzerland and the U.S. earlier this year to evaluate their views on more environmentally friendly cars. Nearly half of all the surveyed drivers reported that they have adjusted ...

French magazine calculates the real savings using low-rolling resistance tires 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Every time an automaker announces a green signature label, one of the factory-installed features to reduce fuel consumption is probably low-rolling resistance tires. French magazine Autoplus did a test drive on a regular car, to see how much fuel these tires save. The magazine wanted to run the ...

Continental buys into Enax, a Japanese battery company 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The automotive li-ion battery world got a little cozier today, with the news that Continental has purchased a 16 percent stake in the Japanese "battery specialist" (Automotive News Europe's words) Enax. ANE says that the two companies will together develop "high storage batteries for automotive ...

Continental says "good chance" to win Volt battery contract 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Even though GM has said it will wait until late 2008 to name the battery supplier for the Chevy Volt, Continental CEO Manfred Wennemer told Reuters on Thursday that he believes his company has a "good chance" of winning the fight with LG Chem / CPI. Of course, it's no surprise that a CEO would talk ...

Continental announces new piezo injector that makes diesels even cleaner 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

One of the keys to making the latest generation of diesel engines as clean and efficient as they are has been common rail injection systems and, more recently, piezo electric injectors. Continental Automotive Systems has just introduced a new type of piezo injector that may take diesels to the next ...

Continental jumps into turbocharger business 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Car makers the world over are looking for the most cost effective ways to increase fuel economy as fuel prices continue to climb and CO2 limits and fuel economy standards come into force. One approach that seems to be appealing to most is adding direct fuel injection and turbocharging to smaller ...

Diesel demand prompts Continental to expand Czech plant 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Continuing demand for diesel engines has prompted Continental's Powertrain division to invest in the expansion of a Czech factory that produces diesel components. The plant in Trutnov, Czech Republic will add production of 900,000 pump cylinders and 2 million high pressure diesel injection pumps ...

Lutz confirms Chevy Volt media rides in July, GM won't name battery supplier until late 2008 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A little over ten days ago, GM's Bob Lutz told us that the Chevy Volt would not be ready for media drives until July. While that announcement was slightly newsworthy because it signaled a small delay/shifting of the timeline. Whatever. The news that the lithium-ion-powered mules would still be on ...

Lutz: Volt Battery supply deal a "horse race," finish line moved. 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In commenting on the battle royal taking place on the testing benches at GM between two contending battery suppliers, "Maximum" Bob Lutz said Tuesday it was a "horse race. An apt analogy in a sense because the two teams, Continental Automotive Systems, using cells from A123 Systems Inc., and ...

Lotus and Continental release results of low CO2 collaboration 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Last spring Lotus and Siemens VDO announced a plan to collaborate on integrating a variety of technologies from the two companies with the goal of producing a high performance powertrain with reduced CO2 emissions. Since then, Siemens VDO has been subsumed into Continental and the companies have ...

PSA pushes back diesel hybrid and moves it upmarket 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

While it has looked like Peugeot would be the first company to market a mainstream passenger vehicle with a diesel hybrid powertrain, it now looks like it won't come as quickly as previously thought. PSA (parent company of Peugeot and Citroen) has been developing a diesel hybrid system in ...

Continental plans to start series production of LiIon batteries in 2008 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It appears Continental Automotive may be the first major company to start series production of automotive lithium ion batteries. According to an interview in German Magazine Auto Motor und Sport, Continental CEO Manfred Wennemer announced the company would start series production of automotive ...

Video: GM's Jon Laukner shows off the first Volt battery pack at EVS23 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

During the Electric Drive Vehicle Symposium (EVS23) held this past week in Anaheim CA, attendees got the first public glimpse at the first prototype battery pack for the Chevy Volt. GM's Jon Lauckner, VP for Global Program Management gave a presentation at the conference that Matt Kelly from ...

Continental: "Fuel-saving tires might be dangerous" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Just when Michelin is showing its fuel consumption reducing tires with pride, German tire manufacturer Continental says that the new set of rules the EU is going to introduce to reduce CO2 emissions and noise pollution will force the company to build less resistant - and less safe - tires. The EU ...

Schwinn releases new electric bike 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Now, for the greenest drivetrain of all, a human-electric hybrid. Not the first, mind you, but one of three new ones from Schwinn. The Campus, World GSE and Continental models are all electric-assisted bicycles, ranging between a modest (hah!) $1,499-$1,999. They come with 21- and 24-speed ...

Continental sees shortage of hybrid engineers 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

With General Motors looking for 400 engineers to work on their advanced powertrain programs, now it's Continental's turn. With the move to limit CO2 emissions in the European Union accelerating this year, carmakers have been looking at all possibilities including ramping up hybrid and electric ...

Germans drivers warming to hybrids 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Until recently, Europeans have been only lukewarm towards hybrids, instead preferring to drive diesel engine vehicles, which dominate up to eighty percent of the market in some areas. However, a new survey commissioned by Continental, seems to indicate that may be changing. According to the survey, ...


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