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Landsail: drivers need not spend big on EV RE tyres
The growth of the electric vehicle market is reaching a stage where early adopters are beginning to invest in maintaining their vehicles in greater numbers. Electric vehicles are generally heavier with a different weight distribution to cars with ...
Redpath Tyres' integrates with Bridgestone FleetBridge
Redpath Tyres is using e-jobsheet to connect directly with Bridgestone's FleetBridge system in order to secure "greater shared data accuracy and efficiency" between its business and Bridgestone Europe...
17 years of dumping has amassed a "tyre graveyard" over 42 million vehicle tyres in Kuwait. According to EuroNews.Green, this has resulted in clouds of toxic black smoke when set alight, creating an "immense environmental risk for residents". The ...
One of the world's largest tyre companies, Goodyear employs about 72,000 people and manufactures its products in 55 facilities in 23 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centres in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to...
Hankook Ventus S1 evo 3 wins Auto Express 2021 tyre test
After a Covid-enforced delay, Auto Express has published its 2021 Summer Tyre Test, with Hankook leading a list of nine top tyre brands. Each of the nine tyres displayed strengths in at least one of the test segments.
Van Wessum becomes Goodyear consumer sales GM UK&I
Goodyear has announced the appointment of Jaap van Wessum as Goodyear sales general manager Consumer UK & Ireland and Cooper Europe. Van Wessum will lead Consumer Sales within the UK & Ireland alongside leading the Cooper Europe business. He will ...
Vehicle manufacturers' accelerated development of battery and hybrid technology to significantly reduce vehicle emissions is being supported by tyre manufacturers. Tyres influence fundamental characteristics, such as the efficiency, the range,...
Hankook Ventus S1 evo Z UUHP tyre on Porsche Panamera
Hankook is supplying its new Ventus S1 evo Z ultra-ultra-high performance tyres for the new Porsche Panamera in 19 and 20-inch variants. The tyre-maker extensively tested the tyre at maximum speed on the Nürburgring Nordschleife racetrack, a...
Bridgestone: EV tyres to make up 20% of EMIA OE range
Electric Vehicle (EV) tyres currently represent 11 per cent of Bridgestone EMIA's total passenger car OE tyre line-up - almost three-times what it was in 2019. Now the company says that figure will reach 20 per cent by 2024. According to the...
Michelin inaugurates 20 million euro reception building
Florent Menegaux, chair of the Michelin Group and Olivier Bianchi, Mayor of Clermont-Ferrand, and chair of Clermont Auvergne Métropole, along with a number of key stakeholders inaugurated the new reception building at Michelin's Clermont-Ferrand...
Continental has launched the SportContact 7, the latest in its ultra-high performance tyre line. The manufacturer will offer an initial run of 42 sizes for rim diameters between 19 and 23 inches with expansions due over the next year. The tyre is ...
In 2015, Michelin disrupted the all-season tyre market with the launch of the CrossClimate - a tyre that approached year-round performance from a different direction.
Continental appoints Pete Robb as marketing director
Continental Tyre Group has appointed Pete Robb as marketing director reporting directly to UK managing director David Smith, effective 1 September 2021.
