Beyond the extreme – Episode 11

Beyond the Extreme: Taraxagum, the sustainable rubber alternative

Car tyres grow on trees? Kind of! Maybe in future, they will also grow in flowering meadows. Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky finds out how dandelion roots could become an alternative source of natural rubber.

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Continental in numbers

First choice for leading vehicle manufacturers

Almost every third car in Europe is delivered
with tyres from Continental.

Multi award-winning tyres

575 tests since 2007

454 times we have received the highest recommendation.

New test results

ContiPremiumContact™ 5 ContiWinterContact™ TS 850

Figures that speak for themselves.

67.000

tests each year

160

million kilometers during durability and high-speed tests

million test kilometers during passenger vehicle tests

140.000

tires

713

testers

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300 locations in
49 countries

In the past 10 years, the number of Continental employees has grown by over 100,000.