How can a simple set of tires pull off this magic trick? The answer is by reducing rolling resistance ... according to Hankook Tires’ internal testing. But you don’t have to take the company ...
Smithers has installed a Simulated On-vehicle Acceleration Testing (SOVAT) machine at its Suzhou laboratory in China.
And according to Bridgestone’s calculations, if rolling resistance can be reduced by 5%, fuel consumption can be reduced by 1.3-1.7%. Part of the challenge in testing and evaluating LRR tires lies in ...
Tires get overlooked in the headlines about fuel economy and CAFE standards, which is a little odd. After all, a car's tires are the only contact it has with the road, so more efficient rubber ...
one of the factory-installed features to reduce fuel consumption is probably low-rolling resistance tires. French magazine Autoplus did a test drive on a regular car, to see how much fuel these ...