Tires That Reduce Fuel Consumption

29 August, 2008
Posted by Mike


ExxonMobil Chemical Company has completed the developments at the technology system from Pensacola, Florida, which will produce a new type of tires, Exxcore DVA, aimed to reduce fuel consumption. The new technology is based on improving the process of holding pressure in the tires (infaltion pressure retention - IPR).

The company claims that this new technology has the ability to achieve a degree of permeability from 7 to 10 times greater, and to improve the tires sustainability with over 50%.

If all the cars tires from the U.S. streets would have an IPR of 1.5 percent, a goal which the company claims that could reach, this would represent a annual potential efficiency of fuel consumption of 2500 tons and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by over 6 million tonnes per year (which assimilate with the removal of one million cars from traffic).

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