Originally published October 15 2005
Independent hybrid engine supplier to work with manufacturers to lessen fossil-fuel dependency
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Continental Automotive Systems, the world's only independent supplier of gasoline/electric hybrid engines, has teamed up with ZF Friedrichshafen AG to step up the development, production and marketing of hybrid drive systems and components, with the intention of offering hybrid solutions to other automakers, reports Auto Spectator.
Frankfurt am Main, Germany -- For Continental Automotive Systems, hybrid drive systems are the ideal way to combine environmental compatibility with dynamic driving, taking individual mobility forward and away from the internal combustion engine and fossil fuels.
Consequently, the world's only independent hybrid system supplier, which began volume production in 2003, has stepped up its activities in the field of hybrid drive technology.
Together with its strategic partner ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Continental Automotive Systems will be focusing on the development, production, and marketing of hybrid drive systems and components, with a view to offering automakers complete hybrid system solutions.
Continental Automotive Systems is also pooling its own resources in the fields of hybrid drives, electric motors, actuators, and control electronics at its new Electric Drives Center in Berlin.
According to Karlheinz Haupt, Head of the Electric Drives business unit and a Member of the Continental Automotive Systems Management Board: "Despite the additional weight and component costs involved, the overall balance of reductions in emissions and fuel consumption, combined with enhanced driving dynamics, clearly favors hybrid drive systems."
Power for the electric motor is supplied by an additional energy storage medium (battery) which can be charged for example during braking, when the electric motor acts as a generator.
"The worldwide trend is towards full hybrid drive systems with the electric motor and transmission forming a synergetic unit," says Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann, Chairman of the Automotive Systems division and Member of the Continental AG Executive Board.
To date, Neumann adds, no individual supplier has been able to offer automakers a system of this type as a single unit.
However, the consortium of Continental Automotive Systems and ZF can provide vehicle manufacturers with turn-key hybrid solutions including the brakes and electric accessories.
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