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p to 20% of the fuel a car consumes — and up to 40% for heavy
more than the competition, but the company says their construction
rigs — can be chalked up to the battle against the resistance of
allied to regular maintenance means each one could last for one million
the road. Tyremakers have long tried to make tyres that are ever
kilometres. Goodyear has also produced a no-worse-for-the-wear
less resistant and save fuel and curb emissions in the process. Michelin
tyre, the Fuel Max, which the US Environmental Protection Agency
calls its latest innovation the X Energy Savergreen, and claims it will
reckons will save your average 18-wheeler up to 4,000 gallons of petrol
save 500 litres of fuel per truck per year, and reduce greenhouse gas
a year. Recently Goodyear joined the SmartWay Transport Partnership, a
emissions by nearly 2.5 tonnes over the tyre’s ‘first life’, before it can
voluntary initiative of shippers, carriers and logistics firms, which aims to
be retread, or regrooved for further use. Michelin tyres may cost a bit
save a collective 6.6 billion tonnes of diesel by 2012.
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