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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Continental expects to produce millions of electric vehicles by 2018


Expects "Continental" to produce auto parts for commercial production of millions of electric cars by 2018, using advanced battery technology, according to a report published by the magazine "Auto Motor Sport" German. Said Elmar Degenhart, CEO of Continental, said in an interview with the magazine, the dominant feature of most electric cars are the existing review, as the volume of production is limited, "but we will see in the next phase, between 2014-2015 production capacity is much higher with the large jump made ​​by the ends of the electric cars of the century "the past. Degenhart said that the production of electric cars on a large scale will come in conjunction with third-generation technology provider of new batteries during the period 2018-2020. He noted that the expected production of about three million vehicles, electric and hybrid car eight million annually by 2020 is expected to make sense.
"The consumption of internal combustion engines, fuel will be reduced over the past six to seven the next by 35 percent compared to the consumption of existing models, because of more efficient engines and other techniques for saving fuel."