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Toyota Explores Airless Tires to Build Lighter Vehicles
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<blockquote data-quote="OishiiJPN" data-source="post: 2792" data-attributes="member: 2"><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/7203:JT" target="_blank">Toyota Motor Corp.</a> is eyeing airless tires to help reduce the weight of battery-electric and fuel-cell vehicles and boost performance, even though the technology is years away from being ready for commercial use.</p><p></p><p><u><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075DL6YS2/?tag=toyoheadqucom-20" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000">The automaker is using airless tires -- featuring individual motors in each wheel </span></a></u>-- on a vehicle for the first time with its hydrogen-powered concept car, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-18/toyota-targets-620-mile-driving-range-with-fuel-cell-concept-car" target="_blank">Fine-Comfort Ride</a>, unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show last week, chief engineer Takao Sato said in an interview. Since such tires comprise a band of rubber encircling a plastic-aluminum hub, the premise is that they could one day compensate for the weight of the motors, he said.</p><p></p><p>Currently the concept tires weigh about... <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-30/toyota-explores-airless-tires-to-build-lighter-electric-vehicles" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>READ MORE</strong> <strong>HERE</strong></span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OishiiJPN, post: 2792, member: 2"] [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/7203:JT']Toyota Motor Corp.[/URL] is eyeing airless tires to help reduce the weight of battery-electric and fuel-cell vehicles and boost performance, even though the technology is years away from being ready for commercial use. [U][URL='https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075DL6YS2/?tag=toyoheadqucom-20'][COLOR=#ff0000]The automaker is using airless tires -- featuring individual motors in each wheel [/COLOR][/URL][/U]-- on a vehicle for the first time with its hydrogen-powered concept car, [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-18/toyota-targets-620-mile-driving-range-with-fuel-cell-concept-car']Fine-Comfort Ride[/URL], unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show last week, chief engineer Takao Sato said in an interview. Since such tires comprise a band of rubber encircling a plastic-aluminum hub, the premise is that they could one day compensate for the weight of the motors, he said. Currently the concept tires weigh about... [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-30/toyota-explores-airless-tires-to-build-lighter-electric-vehicles'][COLOR=#ff0000][B]READ MORE[/B] [B]HERE[/B][/COLOR][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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