EV tires wear out faster: How Goodyear is trying to fix it

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Chris Helsel,Tire Wear,Senior Vice President

Electric vehicle (EV) owners may face accelerated tire wear due to the substantial weight and torque of their vehicles. Goodyear (GT) Senior Vice President...

Electric vehicle owners may face accelerated tire wear due to the substantial weight and torque of their vehicles. Goodyear Senior Vice President of Global Operations and Chief Technology Officer Chris Helsel joins Wealth! to shed light on how the company aims to combat this issue.

Beyond sustainability, Helsel explains that Goodyear has incorporated various factors into their tire designs to balance between consumer needs and affordability. These considerations include warranties, noise reduction, and overall performance trade-offs.An infant and their grandparents were among four people killed in a fiery crash east of Toronto on Monday, after police pursued a robbery suspect driving the wrong way on Highway 401, Ontario's police watchdog says.

"The computer at the airport thought my birth date was 2022 and not 1922," Patricia told a BBC reporter on the same flight.SURREY, B.C. — Mounties in Surrey, B.C., say a woman is in the hospital with possible life-threatening injuries after driving the wrong way down Highway 99 and crashing into oncoming traffic. They say police received a call about the crash on the highway, about 50 metres east of the Highway 91 junction, just after 4:15 a.m. Sunday.

European car giants Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis all posted lower sales and first-quarter revenue on Tuesday as they geared up to launch new models, faced higher costs and were hit by weaker demand for new cars as interest rates remain high. The news hit the automakers' stocks. Mercedes shares were down 4.4%, Stellantis 4% and Volkswagen 2.7%.

 

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