How does this happen? When moving the tire deforms to better "hold" the road, providing comfortable and confident driving. However, the strain causes it to heat up, which entails a loss of engine power. As a consequence, one in five seasoned "to the eyeballs" fuel tank or 20% of total fuel consumption, and this is a lot, goes to fight the phenomenon that experts call "rolling resistance". Of course, this can not cause negative environmental impacts due to the growing number of exhaust gases, creating a "greenhouse effect".
Thus it is clear that the main efforts of producers must be sent, on the one hand, to reduce RESISTANCE rolling, and the other to preserve the characteristics of reliability and safety of the tires. Michelin company over the past decades, focuses on technological developments to solve this problem.
In 1946, the company Michelin has had success reducing the amount of rolling resistance by 30% in the manufacture of radial structure of the skeleton. But the real revolution in the market of tires occurred in 1992 when Michelin's been entered in the rubber compound silicon dioxide. Thanks to the new chemical composition of rubber compound achieved a reduction of energy loss during deformation and, accordingly, a substantial increase energy efficiency of tires Michelin.
As a result of this innovation the car owner was able to save up to 3% of their fuel costs. Imagine the following situation: if all cars in Europe were equipped with "green" tires, the savings would be about 3.5 billion euros. Noticeable, is not it? In addition to the effect of the economic effect on a person ecological: exhaust emissions into the atmosphere would have declined by 7.5 million tonnes, which corresponds to the amount of harmful compounds, annually consumes about 300 million trees.
A world leader in innovative technologies, the company Michelin, continues to seek new solutions to build better tires. In a new development - a model prototype Proxima - Michelin has reduced the value of the rolling resistance by 25% compared with tires Michelin Energy - the best selling "green" tires in Europe.
Perhaps the ideal has not yet been invented, but these innovative solutions Michelin contribute to the development of future technologies: the creation of "green" energy-saving tires, which reaffirms the commitment of the chosen mission: to promote the movement toward perfection.
Source - michelin.ru