Michelin: Manufacturing the best of both worlds

Tire R & D and production is a balanced art of Michelin, "Lu Yao know horsepower, will see people's hearts for a long time" - in the era of the car, this sentence can be changed to "Lu Yao known car power, will soon be fetal sex." Tires are lost parts. In addition to road conditions, driving habits, and daily vehicle maintenance, the most important factor that affects the life of a tire is its own quality.

"Running fast" and "grazing less"

The pursuit of driving pleasure requires us to put more demands on the tires: we must ensure high mileage (tread wear, side impact resistance, etc.), but also to ensure better grip performance, especially wet and wet The anti-sliding performance of the slippery road surface and winter ice and snow surface is better.

These requirements sound almost like "The horse needs to run fast, but the horse needs to eat less grass": Excellent grip performance leads to an increase in rolling resistance, tire wear and fuel consumption; if you want to have a longer ride Mileage, lower fuel consumption, and tread need to be harder, but this will lead to a double reduction in grip and comfort, that is, a decrease in safety on wet surfaces.

For Michelin, tire development and production is a balanced art. Michelin will not sacrifice tire performance in terms of mileage, safety, etc. to emphasize the tire's fuel economy. Such as Michelin PRIMACYLC Bo Yue [Review Photo Forum] tires, in addition to significantly improve energy-saving environmental protection performance, but also improved tire comfort and quiet and mileage performance, its safety performance has also increased. As a symbol of Michelin's "excellent performance balance", Michelin's PRIMACYLC Pou Tien tires are at least 10% longer than the previous generation's Michelin ENERGY MXV8, with 1.4% more fuel efficiency and 1dB less noise inside the car.

How to achieve the best of both worlds The tires are in direct contact with the road surface. The tread blocks and the road surface have adhesion and friction to make the car move forward, brake and turn. Therefore, the tire life is directly related to the tread material and pattern design. .

In 1992, Michelin invented "green tires" and made revolutionary breakthroughs in materials. It was the first to incorporate silicon raw materials into the tire tread as a partial replacement for carbon black. Silicon helps to reduce rolling resistance without reducing tire grip (especially on slippery surfaces) and wear resistance, achieving the dual purpose of saving fuel and reducing emissions, opening up a green new world for the entire tire industry. To date, Michelin has sold more than 600 million green tires worldwide, helping to save more than 11 billion liters of fuel and reducing about 28 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, which is equivalent to the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by 1.1 billion trees a year.

In tread pattern design, through the scientific combination and optimized design of different functional patterns, Michelin makes the tire have a larger actual ground contact area during driving, so that it is more dynamic, braking, steering and driving safety. All have a reliable guarantee, and at the same time because the tyres are more evenly balanced and do not suffer from uneven wear, they also guarantee longer mileage.

Michelin accepted the dilemma of "driving fast" and "grazing less", and took a solid step forward with innovative technologies. The successively launched Michelin ENERGY XM1+ and Michelin PRIMACYLC Boyue also told consumers with their outstanding performance balance: “Choose the right tire, change everything!”