How Can I Make my Tyres Environment Friendly?

Cars aren’t known for being especially friendly to the environment, mainly due to the fuel – fossil fuels have a huge impact on a vehicle’s carbon footprint – and the tyres. Tyres are made from rubber which – traditionally – came from the Amazon rainforest: a resource now recognised as ‘the lungs of the world’. And it is a brave person who cuts down (or out) great swathes of their lungs…

Improvements Are On the Way

However, the car manufacturing industry has begun to take steps to ‘green’ itself. Electric cars are well-established, and as many countries in the world move towards net-zero goals, they will become the most common type of car over the next couple of decades, and tyres are being manufactured using minimal resources; sustainable, non-Amazonian rubber; and technologies which allow tyres to weigh up to 2kg less than their ‘normal’ counterparts.

Already Available

Bridgestone, Continental and a number of other tyre manufacturers have all begun selling tyres which have a lower footprint than their forebears: these tyres are more durable, so need replacing less often; contain sustainable and renewable raw materials such as silica; come with recycling offers, in which at least one-third of their rubber is made into new tyres, while the rest goes into playground surfacing and similar products – all ensuring that smaller quantities of new raw materials are required

There are some green or environmentally friendly tyres already on the market: pick from a huge selection of Cars Tyres in Stevenage at unbelievable prices from Eco Tyre Services.

Exciting Things in the Pipeline

And tyre manufacturers are not sitting on their laurels. Instead, they are actively working to produce new and exciting – almost magical – motoring products that will reduce wear and tear, offer a smoother ride and, of course, carry an environmentally-friendly label. A good example is Goodyear’s Recharge futuristic tyre which will never need to be replaced in the sense that ‘new tyre’ means now.

Instead, there is a reservoir inside the tyre that contains a quantity of liquid made from dandelion ‘rubber’. This synthetic product is combined with fibres similar to those produced by spiders – long, slender and very strong – and teamed with the tyre ‘skeleton’, a framework designed to last a very long time, it will keep you safely on the road for years!

As the tyre wears, the tyre – using AI and machine learning – will exude the compound to where it is needed. The liquid fills up any voids or worn patches, leaving your tyres like new. The only thing you will have to purchase and carry somewhere handy is a refill of the liquid compound to refill the reservoir.

As an added bonus, the automation means that the tyres will respond to the temperature too, offering a winter tyre feel when it is cold and reverting to ‘summer tyre’ hardness when it is warm.