A good set of tires has always made a big difference in safety, fuel economy and handling, but one area that is getting new attention is the quality of tires to reduce or increase the amount of noise ...

MILAN, Italy (July 17, 2013) — Pirelli Tyre S.p.A. has developed tires for Audi Group that are designed to reduce noise for occupants of the car using a layer of polyurethane sponge adhered to the ...

Q I purchased new tires for my 2003 Focus and have had the tires balanced and rotated every 6,000 or 7,000 miles, a total of four times. This summer I noticed the tires were making a "humming" noise ...

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is getting in on the specialty tire game for electric vehicles with its new all-season ElectricDrive GT tire. Basically, this bad boy is designed to reduce road noise and ...

Q. For a while now I've noticed my car is making a noise while driving. It's a whirring, wup-wup-wup noise that gets louder as I go faster. Do you have an idea what this might be? I guess I had become ...

A section of Interstate 35 in Duluth is a testing ground for an unusual concrete-grinding process that’s designed to make tires hum rather than squeal on older concrete pavements. So far, the ...

Electric vehicles need tires that were designed with different priorities. And this past week another big player in tires, Goodyear, is recognizing that—with its first North American-market ...

Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. has developed technology to suppress tire cavity noise-a growing problem in certain original equipment fitments-using polyurethane foam mounted to the tire´s inner ...

Goodyear Tire & Rubber patented a pneumatic tire design with multiple layers of open cell noise damping foam strip material attached to the innerliner below the tread portion. The layers are ...

So it's time to replace your electric car's tires, or it will be soon. You probably won't be surprised to learn there are some important things to consider during the process, things you might not ...