Be careful what you ask for because you just might get it. If the lowest possible rolling resistance is your only consideration when spec’ing tires, chances are you’ll be mighty disappointed in the ...

Hankook Tire's says its enfren range of low rolling-resistance tires deliver significant fuel savings and environmental benefits without consumers having to upgrade their car. The silica compound ...

Low-rolling resistance tires are marketed as an easy way to save fuel—and money. But how much do they really save you? In collaboration with the University of Michigan—which ran the calculations based ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Since their industry introduction about two decades ago, low-rolling-resistance tires have come a long way in improving fuel efficiency, ...

Most of us now acknowledge there's some benefit to running low-rolling-resistance tires. They are supposed to improve fuel economy, right? That's the idea, and for the most part that's exactly what ...

Triathletes are familiar with how much wind resistance costs in speed and energy, and it's not only because you read and hear about it constantly. You can feel the difference when you go in or out of ...

The resistance of automotive tires to rolling eats up anywhere from 20% to 50% of the energy used by the car. So if auto and tire engineers could cut the rolling resistance in passenger-car tires by ...

The technology behind low-rolling-resistance tires is based on the benefit of reducing the resistance that’s caused by tires rolling on the surface of a roadway. Reducing this resistance means that ...

The debate over the value of low rolling resistance (LRR) tires has subsided to a dull roar since they were first introduced about 20 years ago. Initial concerns about fewer miles to removal and ...

GREENVILLE, S.C.—Range can be a very tricky thing. Because electric vehicle range is, simply, inconsistent. It changes over time, across driving conditions and with temperature fluctuations. And while ...

No one’s gotten around to reinventing pine-scented air fresheners yet, but otherwise it seems that virtually every component or system found on today’s heavy-duty trucks is undergoing some sort of ...

As part of its ongoing work to update all of its existing Confidence Reports, The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) has just completed a revision of its Confidence Reports on low ...