Tire technology has always been something of a black art – even the word “vulcanization” refers to a pagan god long associated with sorcery and the fiery underworld. Prior to having a rubber-hardening process named after him, Vulcan was also the patron deity of alchemy – the practice of “transmuting” one substance or energy into another. Today’s chemistry and physics owe much to this “black art;” the First Law of Thermodynamics, for example, is little more than a restatement of alchemy’s “principle of equivalent exchange.”
Nobody’s saying tire tech is a “black art” in the sense of being occult – more in the respect that no matter how much they’ve advanced in the last century, tires have always looked pretty much the same, and performed the same job. The black art of tire development has long put improvements under the surface, with outward revolution the exception and gradual evolution the rule.
But every so often, something comes along to truly revolutionize everything we believe about what a thing is or what it does.
Meet the Goodyear BH03 Thermoelectric and TripleTube tires, introduced in Geneva last week.
Continue reading to learn more about Goodyear’s new concept tires.
Goodyear's New Concept Tires originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 10 March 2015 15:00 EST.
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