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 ...

NEW YORK — The vehicle industry's quest for quieter cars is driving demand for noise-dampening components, a development Pirelli Tyre is meeting with tire technology it claims reduces road noise by up ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New electric and hybrid vehicles bring new challenges for tire manufacturers: because the car itself is so quiet, tire noise is more noticeable. And, with maximizing vehicle range at top of mind, ...

Electric vehicles expose every weak link in a car’s hardware, and tires are one of the first components to struggle under the extra weight and instant torque. The Hankook iON HT is part of a new wave ...

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 ...