Sustainable Road Transport
New regulations, to rising fuel prices and increasing social and environmental awareness have led to greater pressure on the road transport industry to become more sustainable. With our material competence, our innovative tire technologies, services and digital solutions we enable our customers to operate with greater energy efficiency, lower their CO2-emmissions and reach their sustainability goals.
- Inthe Tough Runr air springs, we have substituted synthetic rubber with natural rubber that has been improved by ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (EPDM). By doing so, the rubber compound’s carbon backpack is reduced by more than 50 percent while achieving the same product performance.
- With our innovative technological solutions for the new energy vehicle (NEV) such as thermal-management for battery-electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles, we ensure optimal performance, efficiency, and sustainability for the next generation of transportation.
- Continental’s newest bus tire not only boasts a very low rolling resistance, but also combines a high share of recycled, renewable and mass-balanced certified materials and is also EV compatible.
Tough RuNR is not only demonstrating our capabilities to make products greener, but it also shows how we use the evolution towards more sustainable materials to speed up our constant search for improvements to our products and our customers´ applications.
Our new sustainable series bus tire with a very low rolling resistance and high content of recycled and renewable materials once again demonstrates our leading technology and materials expertise. Our customers get a safe, sustainable tire that helps buses run even more energy-efficiently while reducing the vehicle's carbon footprint. The development of this tire also brings us one step closer to our goal of using more than 40 percent renewable and recycled materials in our tires by 2030.
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