AUMOVIO Unveils Next-Gen Automotive Tech at CES® 2026

AUBURN HILLS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 9, 2025--

AUMOVIO, formerly the Automotive group sector of Continental, will exhibit at CES 2026, the world’s most influential technology event, taking place January 6-9, 2026, in Las Vegas. Following its successful listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as an independent company last September, AUMOVIO will demonstrate its unique position as a leading supplier of mobility solutions and electronic products for the future of mobility.

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“CES 2026 marks a crucial moment for AUMOVIO to demonstrate the accelerated speed and creative power that our new independence brings to the mobility industry,” said Philipp von Hirschheydt, CEO of AUMOVIO. “We are not just reacting to automotive trends; we are actively setting the pace for software-defined vehicles, intelligent user experience, and key technologies for the future of mobility. Our booth will be a living roadmap for how the mobility ecosystem will operate tomorrow.”

Giving vehicles the “wow-factor”

AUMOVIO combines optical precision, advanced projection technologies, and deep user experience (UX) expertise to deliver solutions that are intuitive, immersive, and tailored to tomorrow’s mobility needs. Visitors at CES will experience first-hand just how AUMOVIO brings style to safety with its exciting user experience technologies. The Branded Personalized Cockpit showcases AUMOVIO’s extensive capabilities in highly customized display solutions, featuring a colorful multi-display landscape that highlights the latest in display technologies. This display includes cutting-edge advancements such as vibrant color ePaper technology displays, switchable privacy functionality, and the invisible integration of a camera behind OLED display, all designed to offer tailored and advanced in-car experiences.

Easier driving and maneuvering with Xelve system solutions

Assisted and automated driving technologies are transforming the way we move. AUMOVIO’s Xelve technology solutions provide a scalable ADAS and automated driving system set-up for volume and premium markets, where hardware and automotive software harmonize. Xelve creates a seamless system that is the entry point for the Software-defined Vehicle (SDV) that covers L2-L4, in addition to offering a comprehensive array of functions. Xelve comes in various system versions with different focuses: Xelve Park for high-precision, automated parking functions; Xelve Drive for assisted and automated driving experience with human-like AI-supported decision making; and Xelve Pilot as a fallback solution for automated driving (L4). The latest addition to the portfolio is the Xelve Trailer which provides collision warning using surround view-based computer vision to detect obstacles and warn drivers of potential impacts while maneuvering with a trailer. All in all, with Xelve, AUMOVIO demonstrates that it is a full-system supplier for ADAS and automated driving systems. One advantage for customers is a high degree of flexibility; thanks to AUMOVIO’s close cooperation with various SoC suppliers, the systems can be customized to meet individual customer requirements.

From virtual to real: The path toward standardized and scalable SDV architectures

At CES, AUMOVIO presents a complete path toward the Software-defined Vehicle (SDV) – from a virtualized multi-Electronic Control Unit (ECU) network to the deployment of real vehicle functions.

AUMOVIO provides a comprehensive virtualization network with a High-Performance Computer (HPC), Zone Control Units, as well as sensors and actuators. Developers can integrate, verify, and validate complete vehicle functions in a fully virtual or hybrid real-time environment, significantly accelerating development time. With that, software can be designed and tested long before physical hardware is available.

The setup includes the latest Vehicle Control HPC (VC HPC), supporting both safety-critical and non-safety-critical functions across domains without interference.

In addition, AUMOVIO introduces its next-generation SDV architecture concept, the Automotive Remote Control Network. This technology is a key enabler for a standardized, scalable, and cost-efficient vehicle architecture, making classic automotive functions fully SDV-ready.

It simplifies the vehicle architecture by introducing a highly standardized concept built around HPC, Zone Control Units, sensors and actuators, including Input/Output (I/O) boxes and Smart Actuator ECUs. Standardized communication protocols connect the HPC to sensors and actuators. This enables complete decoupling of vehicle applications from hardware-dependent firmware.

By reducing wiring complexity and minimizing hardware variants, the Automotive Remote Control Network significantly simplifies vehicle architectures. Vehicle model differentiation is now driven almost entirely by software, allowing streamlined integration and simplified lifecycle management.

Together, virtualization, centralized computing, and highly standardized ECUs highlight AUMOVIO’s capability to deliver all key SDV elements and support OEMs in building scalable and cost-efficient vehicle platforms for the next generation of mobility.

Safety, no matter what

Safer mobility is at the core of all that AUMOVIO does. One innovative product shown at CES is a night-capable camera software enhancement for existing camera hardware to improve driver safety in low-light conditions through enhanced visibility, decreased glare from oncoming headlights and greater perception of road hazards. For the first time on display at CES is the e-Motor Rotor Temperature Sensor (eRTS), a new sensor technology for EV motors that enables the first direct, wireless rotor temperature measurement in permanent magnet synchronous motors. The greatly reduced tolerance compared to the current software-based temperature simulation – from 15°C to only 3°C – enables a more cost-efficient use of rare earth elements needed to increase the magnets’ heat resistance. This improves overall system cost, performance, and safety.

AUMOVIO at CES 2026

Visitors to AUMOVIO’s booth will experience concepts brought to life through interactive exhibits and vehicle demonstrations, including stunning displays, augmented reality and in-car gaming technology.

“While we have exhibited at CES for many years, this will be our debut as AUMOVIO in Las Vegas,” said Aruna Anand, President and CEO, North America. “We are entering a bold new era. As a reimagined company, we’re pushing the limits of what’s possible – making mobility safe, exciting, connected, and autonomous.”

AUMOVIO will showcase its latest technologies at a private structure exhibit in Central Plaza across from the Las Vegas Convention Center from Tuesday, January 6 through Friday, January 9. The technology and electronics company has numerous solutions that highlight mobility innovations. A private media event has been scheduled for January 6. Please contact Christina Clarke for details.

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Since its spin-off in September 2025, AUMOVIO continues the business of the former Continental group sector Automotive as an independent company. The technology and electronics company offers a wide-ranging portfolio that makes mobility safe, exciting, connected, and autonomous. This includes sensor solutions, displays, braking, and comfort systems, as well as comprehensive expertise in software, architecture platforms, and assistance systems for software-defined vehicles. In the fiscal year 2024, the business areas, which now belong to AUMOVIO, generated sales of 19.6 billion Euro. The company is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany and has over 86,000 employees in more than 100 locations worldwide.

Detail view of AUMOVIO’s SDV architecture with High-Performance Computer, Zone Control Units, sensors and actuators, including input/output boxes and smart actuator ECUs.

From virtual to real: AUMOVIO delivers all key elements for a standardized and scalable SDV architecture.

Night vision camera systems provide superior visibility in low-light conditions compared with conventional cameras.

Xelve is a scalable ADAS and automated driving system set-up for volume and premium markets.

The Branded Personalized Cockpit combines multiple display solutions, featuring a colorful multi-display, ePaper technology and switchable privacy functionality.

TENERIFE, Spain (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization sought Saturday to reassure residents of the Spanish island where passengers of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship are expected to be evacuated, issuing them a direct message that the virus was “not another COVID.”

The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, with more than 140 passengers and crew on board, is headed to Spain's Canary Islands, off the coast of West Africa, and is expected to arrive at the island of Tenerife early Sunday.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, along with Spain’s Health Minister Monica Garcia and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, were due on the island Saturday to coordinate the disembarkation of passengers and some crew.

“I know you are worried. I know that when you hear the word ‘outbreak’ and watch a ship sail toward your shores, memories surface that none of us have fully put to rest. The pain of 2020 is still real, and I do not dismiss it for a single moment,” Tedros said in a message to the people of Tenerife.

“But I need you to hear me clearly: This is not another COVID. The current public health risk from hantavirus remains low. My colleagues and I have said this unequivocally, and I will say it again to you now,” Tedros added.

The WHO, Spanish authorities and cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions said nobody on the Hondius is currently showing symptoms of the virus.

Hantavirus can cause life-threatening illness. It usually spreads when people inhale contaminated residue of rodent droppings and isn’t easily transmitted between people. But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases. Symptoms usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure.

Three people have died since the outbreak, and five passengers who left the ship are infected with hantavirus.

Some on Tenerife say they are worried. On board the cruise ship, some Spanish passengers have voiced concern about being stigmatized.

“I tell you, I don’t like this very much,” said 69-year-old resident Simon Vidal. “Anyone can say what they want. Why did they have to bring a boat from another country here? Why not anywhere else, why bring it to the Canary Islands?”

Others said they empathized with the boat's passengers, but were still concerned.

“The truth is that it is very worrying,” said 27-year-old Venezuelan immigrant Samantha Aguero. She added: “We feel a bit unsafe, we don’t feel as there are 100% security measures in place to welcome it. This is a virus after all and we have lived this during the pandemic. But we also need to have empathy.”

Spanish Health Minister Monica Garcia said passengers and some crew would disembark in Tenerife “under maximum safety conditions.”

The ship will not dock but will remain at anchor. Everyone disembarking will be checked for symptoms and won't be taken off the ship until a flight is already in Tenerife waiting to fly them off the island, Garcia said during a news conference in Madrid. There are currently people of more than 20 different nationalities on board.

Both the U.S. and the U.K. have agreed to send planes to evacuate their citizens. Americans are to be quarantined at a medical center in Nebraska.

All Spanish passengers will be transferred to a medical facility and quarantined, Garcia said. Oceanwide has listed 13 Spanish passengers and one Spanish crew member on board.

Those disembarking will leave behind their luggage, Garcia said, and will be allowed to take only a small bag with essential items, a cellphone, charger and documentation.

Some crew, as well as the body of a passenger who died on board, will remain on the ship, which will sail on to the Netherlands, where it will undergo disinfection, the minister added.

According to a letter sent by the Dutch foreign and health ministers to parliament late Friday, Spain has activated the EU civil protection mechanism for a medical evacuation plane equipped for infections diseases to be on standby in case anyone on the ship becomes ill. That person would then be transported by air to the European mainland.

The Dutch government will work with Spanish authorities and the ship company to arrange repatriation of Dutch passengers and crew as soon as possible after arrival in Tenerife, subject to medical conditions and advice from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the letter said. Those without symptoms will go into home quarantine for six weeks and be monitored by local health services.

As the ship is Dutch-flagged, the Netherlands may also temporarily accommodate people of other nationalities and monitor them in quarantine, it said.

Health authorities across four continents were tracking down and monitoring more than two dozen passengers who disembarked before the deadly outbreak was detected. They were also scrambling to trace others who may have come into contact with them.

On April 24, nearly two weeks after the first passenger had died on board, more than two dozen people from at least 12 different countries left the ship without contact tracing, Dutch officials and the ship’s operator have said.

It wasn’t until May 2 that health authorities first confirmed hantavirus in a passenger.

Dutch public health authorities have been monitoring people who were on a flight that was briefly boarded by a Dutch ship passenger who later died and was confirmed to have hantavirus. Three people who were on the flight and had symptoms have all tested negative for hantavirus, Dutch National Institute for Public Health spokesperson Harald Wychgel told The Associated Press on Saturday.

Becatoros reported from Sparta, Greece. Associated Press reporters Angela Charlton in Paris and Helena Alves in Tenerife contributed to this report.

A Spanish Civil Guard officer inspects the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Media crew members stand in the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Workers set up temporary shelters in the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Passengers on the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, scan the horizon with binoculars during their voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)

Passengers on the the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, watch epidemiologists board the boat in Praia, during their voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)

A passenger checks his camera inside his cabin on the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, during the voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)

Crew members of the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, wait their turns for a first interview with epidemiologists, during the voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)

A passenger on the the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, takes a photo of the ship's weighing anchor in Praia, during the voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)