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2026/01/21

Sustainable materials in cars

Automakers are driving sustainable change by coming up with alternative sustainable materials, which help the environment but don’t compromise on quality.
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2025/11/28

Winter's Many Faces

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- #Future Mobility
2025/06/25

Sustainable future

Continental’s Vision 2030 leads us towards sustainable mobility, as the most progressive tire company in terms of environmental and social responsibility.
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- #Classic
2024/10/17

Original Equipment Heroes

With its Original Equipment tires, Continental has become a part of car history. A graphic art series pays tribute to a rich history of iconic cars.
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- #Extreme E
2024/10/17

Sardinia

The Extreme-E Island X Prix in Sardinia will challenge the electric cars, their drivers and the tires with hot conditions, hard and soft surfaces.
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2024/10/17

Intelligent Tires

Intelligent tires are an integral part of smart automotive design. Check out today’s – and tomorrow’s – tire tech innovations.
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2024/10/17

The Conti GreenConcept at IAA Mobility 2021

Our GreenConcept tire underlines Continental’s commitment to the clean mobility of the future. Nico Rosberg is impressed. Are you?
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2024/10/17

Car connectivity

Cars of the future will be able to predict obstacles and read your mind. Find out how car connectivity will change your driving experience.
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- #Extreme E
2024/10/17

Meet Jutta Kleinschmidt

The racing legend on gender equality in motorports, her best life advice, racing in the Extreme E – and driving on the Moon.
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- #Classic
2024/10/17

Breakdown history

More than 100 years of innovation in Continental’s tire technology has made driving safer and more enjoyable. Breakdowns could even become a thing of the past.
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2024/10/17

Smart sensor tires

The latest tire pressure monitoring system not only allows tires to feel but also to communicate, making the entire vehicle safer and more efficient.
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- #Running
2024/10/17

The right shoe for every adventure

Continental outsoles for adidas shoes will get you through the harshest conditions when running, hiking or mountaineering.
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- #Technology and Innovation
2024/10/17

Smart tires for autonomous vehicles

Self-driving cars of the future will repair their own tires, park themselves and make urban mobility more affordable and environmentally-friendly.
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- #Extreme E
2024/10/17

About Extreme E

Continental is a Founding Partner of Extreme E, a new race series setting new milestones in eMobility performance and safety.
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2024/10/17

Intelligent Tires for shared vehicles

An integrated mobility ecosystem benefits both owners and drivers of shared cars.
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- #Running
2024/10/17

Backward running

With seven world records in backwards running and 45 stair-running titles under his belt, it could be said that Thomas Dold chases victories of the more unusual sort.
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2024/10/17

The Arctic

What to expect when the Extreme E race series heads for the Arctic stage, where rocks, sand and gravel are the main driving challenges.
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2024/10/17

10 tips on running in winter

Will breathing cold air harm your lungs? Is it okay to feel cold while you’re running? What kind of running shoes deliver grip on ice?
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2024/10/17

IAA Mobility 2021

The former IAA auto show has reinvented itself and is now focused on digital and climate-neutral mobility of the future. Watch these top innovations.
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2024/10/17

New CrossContact™: Built for the Extreme

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2024/10/17

Vanlife

With digital nomads + influencers increasingly embracing #vanlife, camping gets a 21st-century upgrade. Check out the technology behind the sliding doors.
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2024/10/17

Virtual road trips

Can’t drive due to Coronavirus measures? Take an epic virtual road trip despite the COVID-19 pandemic, without leaving your home. Find out how.
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2024/10/17

Recycled PET bottles in tires

From 2022, we will use more than 60 recycled plastic bottles in each new set of Continental tires, replacing the use of conventional virgin PET.
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2024/10/17

Voice assistants

In-car voice assistants are now able to understand natural speech, multiple questions and learn from interactions to increase driving safety and comfort.
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Catarina Silva sitting with Continental Extreme E race tires at the first race location: AlUla, Saudi Arabia
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2024/10/17

A motorsport history

Continental has been working on the development of robust and reliable tires for over 120 years. Motorsports was and still is an important driving force.
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Not exactly what you’d expect from a classic marathon: Competitors in the Jungle Marathon in Brazil. Photo: Mikkel Beisner / Jungle Marathon
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2024/10/17

The world's ten toughest trail runs

Simmering volcanos, snow-covered peaks, deserts, jungles, icy rivers, scorpions, snakes, wildcats, thirst, pain and fear are just some of the challenges facing trail runners in the world’s most rugged landscapes.
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2024/10/17

Extreme tires: The CrossContact

Extreme E is the most challenging racing series in the world: A new kind of race which demands a new kind of tire.
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2024/10/17

Winter High Performance Event 2022

Tuning vehicles and ultra-high-performance tires in the endurance test in ice and snow squalls - that was the Winter High Performance Event 2022. Read more!
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2024/10/17

Aspiring athletes

The steepest 50-meter-sprint in the world: How athlete Johannes Rydzek set World Record on Continental soles with maximum grip.
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- #SportContact 7
2024/10/17

The Dreamhub

Find the automotive and emobility dreams of our crew, share your own and win the grand prize on the SportContact 7™ Dream Hub.
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2024/10/17

We make you ready for e-mobility

The perfect tire for every e-vehicle. Learn how Continental meets the demands of the future of mobility.
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Pedestrians, cars and carts share the street in London
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2024/10/17

Road safety history

For decades, Continental has played a crucial role in improving road safety. Could autonomous driving soon transform how we use our streets?
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2024/10/17

The Taraxagum development team

Car tires made from flowers? Sounds like magic? Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky gets the lowdown on dandelion rubber from the Continental researchers making the magic real.
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- #Classic
2024/10/17

History of rubber shoe soles

You may know Continental as one of the world’s leading tire manufacturers, but we started making rubber shoe soles almost 150 years ago.
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Smart shoes connect to smart phones
- #Running
2024/10/17

Smart Shoes

Future shoes are already here. Wearable technology can track data for runners, online gaming and even for physically impaired users. What’s next for smart sneakers?
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Running shoes are a popular and highly saleable product. Adidas partners up with Continental. We develop running soles that deliver superior grip.
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2024/10/17

Running by numbers

Did you know that it took the slowest marathon runner of all time 54 years from starting gun to finish line? That the human foot can produce half a liter of sweat in one day? That one crazy ultramarathoner ran 27,000 kilometers in a single year? No? Then read on!
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2024/10/17

E Truck World Record

Pioneering spirit, passion and electric mobility are what drive Futuricum, DPD Switzerland and Continental to accelerate the future of the sustainable logistics industry.
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2024/10/17

The city of the future

How will we live in the future city? We built a model from innovations already successfully implemented in smart cities around the world.
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2024/10/17

The tire of the future

With electric vehicles on the rise and autonomous vehicles on the way, what does tire pressure look like? Check out some of the latest innovations.
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- #Extreme E
2024/10/17

Driving on a extreme terrain: Dorset

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Desert Xprix. Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia
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2024/10/17

Extreme 2021 Recap

We take a look at the racing highs and the lows, plus the environmental challenges of Extreme E’s first season in 2021.
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2024/10/17

ContiRe.Tex technology

Learn how Continental is supporting the fight against the global problem of plastic pollution
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2024/10/17

Driverless mobility

E-mobility is catapulting us into the future, but not just with propulsion - also with lighter parts, robust tires and advanced sensors.
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2024/10/17

Tires for electric vehicles

Continental has the best tires for electric vehicles.
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- #Extreme E
2024/07/18

Broadcast Information

See where you can watch Extreme E across the globe.
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- #Technology and Innovation
2023/04/27

Continental responsibly sourced natural rubber

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2022/09/23

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