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California looking to classify tires by rolling resistance?

Low rolling resistance tires have been increasingly used to help manufacturers improve EPA efficiency ratings. While the specialty rubber used to be found mostly on hybrids, it is starting to find its way onto other vehicles as well, like gas-engined Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner SUVs. According to Modern Tire Dealer, California is looking to capitalize on advances in the tire industry to increase fuel economy and reduce CO2 emissions with a new proposal from the California Energy Commissions (CEC). The CEC has assembled a draft proposal to ... Read more →

The European Union is studying green label for tires Xavier Navarro

The EU is readying legislation that will label tires according to their impact on the environment. The idea is to create a label that would spot three values, two of them inspired by current energy ...

Tire pressure monitoring systems to become mandatory in the EU Xavier Navarro

The European Union is set to make tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) mandatory in 2012. This measure is intended to not only improve vehicle safety, but also to reduce CO2 emissions. Only ...

Bridgestone could begin using rubber from Dandelions Jeremy Korzeniewski

Natural rubber is rather hard to get, as the trees from which it is cultivated from only grow in certain areas and the method of obtaining it is difficult and time-consuming. Synthetic rubber, on the ...

French magazine calculates the real savings using low-rolling resistance tires Xavier Navarro

Every time an automaker announces a green signature label, one of the factory-installed features to reduce fuel consumption is probably low-rolling resistance tires. French magazine Autoplus did a ...

China's rainforests threatened by tire demand 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Chinese auto industry is booming, as you are surely aware by now. While many are concerned with the emissions of those vehicles, as they should be, there are myriads of other related problems to worry about. One problem which is cropping up relates to tire production, which, of course, requires ...

Goodyear anounces new "green filling" for tires - it's made from cornstarch 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Sustainable and renewable materials - such as cornstarch - are going to be sources for Goodyear's new greener tires. Goodyear announced that it's developing a new line of low rolling resistance tires which will not only save some fuel, but are more "respectful for the environment," since they ...

What to do with used tires? Use them as fuel! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Finding some use for old tires is quite a problem. While some have found quite interesting DIY solutions, not all of us are that gifted. So it's a good thing that, besides using them for things such as sidewalks, pavements, basketball courts or even asphalt, they can be used as fuel. Currently, the ...

Instructable of the day: making sandals from used tires 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The subject of tire recycling is one that has come up here before, but we didn't really offer up any useful suggestions for the average reader on what to do. Let's change all of that with our latest Instructable of the day. Used tires still have lots of life left in them if you are willing to get a ...

Tire retreads, danger or valuable resource? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

All of us probably drive down the expressway and see the fragments of blown tires littering the road. This highlights two points. One, all of tires need to be replaced is obvious, and are those retreaded tires that blew? If retreaded tires are blowing more often than non retreaded tires, should we ...

Bridgestone study finds under-inflated tires costing 8.1B liters of fuel in EU 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Bridgestone conducted safety checks on over 29,000 cars in nineteen different countries in Europe over the past two years and found some pretty dramatic results. Over ninety percent of the cars checked had under-inflated tires. Of those, almost forty percent had at least one tire that was ...

Artificial underwater reefs made from used tires: a complete failure! 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

It is no secret that the world has a problem with too many used automotive tires. There have been many good uses for them, and even more ideas are currently being thought up. But, unfortunately, there have been some stinkers, too. For instance, using tires as artificial underwater reefs for marine ...


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