- Aumovio combines custom and a robust market place within the automotive trade with the ambition to form the mobility of the long run
- With the announcement of the brand new identify at Auto Shanghai 2025, Automotive underlines the significance of the expansion market of China and its “available in the market for the market” method
- Philipp von Hirschheydt, Member of the Government Board of Continental and CEO Automotive: “We’ve got constantly aligned automotive with future applied sciences and are choosing up on market developments shortly, innovatively and from a robust aggressive place. Which means that we’re constantly on our technique to changing into an adaptive automotive powerhouse. Our future model additionally displays this ambition”
Continental group sector Automotive introduced its future identify at Auto Shanghai. The unbiased automotive firm will likely be named Aumovio. The identify of the brand new firm combines the robust market place, heritage and technological experience within the automotive trade with the ambition to form the mobility of the long run with improvements. Aumovio will provide digital merchandise and superior mobility options for the software-defined automobile and protected, thrilling, linked and autonomous mobility to a variety of world prospects. In line with a market evaluation by Berylls, Automotive expects the worth of options per automobile in these segments to develop by a mean of 4.7 p.c yearly till 2029 – and extra dynamically than the variety of passenger automobiles and light-weight industrial autos produced worldwide (primarily based on market forecast by S&P International Mobility). On the Auto Shanghai this 12 months, the group sector additionally introduced its “available in the market for the market” method and several other progressive applied sciences for Chinese language prospects and the Chinese language market. Following the anticipated approval on the Continental Annual Shareholders’ Assembly on April 25, 2025, Aumovio is scheduled to checklist on the Frankfurt Inventory Alternate in September 2025.
“As an unbiased firm, we acquire considerably extra inventive energy and pace. Aumovio will likely be characterised by a triad of technologically main merchandise, a constant worth creation technique and a worldwide synergetic community, mixed with a robust native presence for our prospects. Our goal is to additional increase our place sooner or later fields and progress markets of mobility. This technique is especially evident in China. Amongst different issues, we’re counting on our robust native presence by producing and creating domestically for the Chinese language market,” says Philipp von Hirschheydt, Member of the Government Board of Continental and CEO of Automotive.
Continental’s group sector Automotive has been current in China for 30 years and employs round 10,000 individuals there. Within the 2024 monetary 12 months, Automotive generated round 14 p.c of its world gross sales in China. At Auto Shanghai, Automotive introduced the Luna and Astra driver help techniques, amongst others. Each had been developed within the three way partnership Horizon Continental Expertise, for the Chinese language market. Luna is an help system and helps lively security in addition to primary driving and parking features to extend security and luxury. Astra is a sophisticated help system and allows, amongst different issues, assisted driving with no high-resolution map and parking help with reminiscence operate.
Fashionable mobility options from Automotive
The longer term Aumovio gives extremely developed digital merchandise and trendy mobility options. Along with its robust market place with progressive sensor options, shows, and technologically main braking and luxury techniques, Aumovio has important experience in software program, structure platforms and help techniques for the quickly rising future market of software-defined and autonomous autos. The Automotive group sector employs round 92,000 individuals and generated gross sales of round 19.4 billion Euros within the 2024 monetary 12 months.
