Corresponding to Ghostbuster ‘s Marshmallow Man, new Goodyear tires might just Stay-Puft on their lonesome. The corporate is developing Air Maintenance Technology (AMT) tires with built-in pumps to maintain themselves on the perfect pressure. The rationale? Even just below -inflated tires can drop your mileage by 3.3 percent, costing you money on the pump. For highway-hustling commercial trucks that’s a lot of moola, leading the usa Department of Energy’s Office of car Technology to grant Goodyear $1.5 million towards self-plumping commercial tire development. For those people who don’t wear mesh hats, Goodyear is operating on a client version in its Luxembourg lab. It’s unclear exactly how they’ll work, but earlier implementations have a pipe that’s compressed because the tire rolls, allowing air to go into the tire without bursting attributable to a pressure sensitive valve. With a lot automated car technology now all we’d like is the type that cleans out its own trunk and pumps its own gas. Inspect the total PR after the break.
Government Grants to assist Quicken Development
AKRON, Ohio, August 11, 2011 – The times of manually adding air to under-inflated tires can be a distant memory owing to a brand new innovation under development in laboratories on the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
Keeping tires properly inflated doesn’t just eliminate the practice of checking a tire’s air pressure and finding a tire pump and gauge that works. It may mean real savings on the fuel pump.
Whether you drive a passenger vehicle or a commercial truck, underinflated tires set off between a 2.5 percent and three.3 percent decrease in fuel mileage, per government and industry research. At today’s prices, that translates to about 12 cents per gallon on the pump.
Properly inflated tires also cause lower emissions, longer tire life, enhanced safety and improved vehicle performance.
Goodyear’s Air Maintenance Technology (AMT), will enable tires to stay inflated on the optimum pressure without the will for any external pumps or electronics. All components of the AMT system, including the miniaturized pump, should be fully contained in the tire.
“While the technology is complex, the thought behind the AMT system is comparatively simple and powered by the tire itself because it rolls down the line,” said Jean-Claude Kihn, Goodyear senior vp and chief technical officer.
“A tire which could maintain its own inflation is something drivers have wanted for a few years. Goodyear has taken in this challenge and the progress we’ve made is incredibly encouraging,” said Kihn. “This can become the type of technological breakthrough that folk will wonder how they ever lived without.”
Goodyear failed to provide an estimate as to when this technology will be available at tire retailers, but said the timetable could be accelerated as a result of recent government research grants in Usa and European Union.
The us Department of Energy’s Office of auto Technology Wednesday announced it has awarded a $1.5 million grant for research, development and demonstration of the AMT system for commercial truck tires. The grant would be administered by the National Energy Technology Laboratory and work would be conducted at Goodyear’s Innovation Center in Akron, Ohio.
In July, Goodyear successfully applied for a grant from the Luxemburg government for research and development of an AMT system for consumer tires. That work could be conducted at Goodyear’s Innovation Center in Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg.
“While similar in concept, there are significant differences in AMT systems for consumer and commercial tires,” said Kihn. “The tangible support from both the U.S. and Luxembourg governments underscores the worth of those projects and the various positive benefits they’re able to provide drivers worldwide.”
As well as, The DOE’s Office of car Technology today also announced that it’ll award a $1.5 million grant for a joint project between PPG Industries and Goodyear to enhance the rolling resistance and fuel efficiency of tires. The project’s objective is to extend average fuel efficiency of passenger vehicle fleets through use of recent tread and inner liner technologies.
“Advanced technologies which can be invisible to the human eye – like those we’re engaged on with PPG – might actually help to dramatically improve fuel efficiency of tires while maintaining other important qualities inclusive of traction and tread-life,” said Kihn.
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