“Yellow Angel” for Continental E-Booster
Innovative high-performance electronics saves fuel – and wins over the ADAC
Hanover, February 2011 – For the second time, Continental has been cited with the
“Yellow Angel” ADAC mobility price. The “E-booster” high-performance technology
for start-stop system earned the international automotive supplier a third prize in the
“Innovation and Environment” category. As ADAC President Peter Meyer noted: “No
other prize reflects so broadly the great diversity of development currently underway
for better mobility.” Awarded for the eighth time this year, the “Yellow Angel” is
regarded as one of the most important citations in the automotive branch. Continental
obtained this prize already back in 2009. The citation back then honored advanced
development work on the lithium-ion battery.
This year, the Continental E-booster scored as one of the most efficient technologies
for reducing fuel consumption – and thus pollutant emissions as well. Also referred to
as micro-hybrids, start-stop systems increase mileage by up to fifteen percent in city
driving. Systems using a starter-generator work especially fast and comfortable. The
starter-generator combines light machine and starter in one component. In this way,
diesel engines in particular can be jump-started (into idle) much faster – virtually
without any vibration and noise.
The additional energy accumulator from Continental ensures that the vehicle electric
grid can is always capable of making electric power available at lightning-fast speed.
And that is important because more and more comfort applications have an
increasingly high electric power requirement. That means that even if an especially
large amount of energy is needed to start the vehicle, running the navigation system,
the A/C unit and the radio, for example, will still present no problem. Dr. Carsten
Götte, range manager for electric grid stabilization in Continental’s Powertrain
division remarks: “In this new in-vehicle technology for storing electric energy,
supercapacitors come to the assistance of the conventional battery. In just a few
seconds, the batteries are fully recharged. That makes it possible to take advantage
of extremely short stop phases to shut off the combustion engine.”
Continental is currently the sole manufacturer of this type of system.
BU:
Booster ensures permanent voltage!
Increasing comfort in the car makes for a rising electric power requirement. Normally,
the available voltage is then no longer sufficient (red line). The excellent electric grid
module also covers voltage peaks (green line).
Press contact:
Simone Geldhäuser
External Communication
Continental
Powertrain Division
Siemensstr. 12
93055 Regensburg, Germany
Ph.: +49 941 790-61302
Fax : +49 941 790-99 61302
simone.geldhaeuser@continental-corporation.com