Bridgestone has developed the Turanza Eco tyres for the Mercedes-Benz VISION EQXX that can improve the car’s effectivity and thus supply a driving vary to a real-world 1,000km.
Bridgestone has been chosen by Mercedes-Benz AG as the event companion for tyres for its expertise programme, the Mercedes-Benz VISION EQXX. The electrical car (EV) is the automobile producer’s reply to creating EVs extra environment friendly and growing electrical vary to a brand new degree.
Bridgestone engineers collaborated with Mercedes-Benz to create custom-designed tyres which have contributed to growing the car’s effectivity and thus driving vary to a real-world 1,000km – from Sindelfingen, Germany to Cassis, France – on a single cost.
Bridgestone designed Turanza Eco tyres that mix its proprietary and light-weight ENLITEN Technology to cut back tyre rolling resistance and weight by as much as 20%, together with its ologic expertise designed to reinforce battery vary by way of a big tyre diameter to cut back rolling resistance, and a slender tyre width to cut back aerodynamic resistance.
In collaboration with Mercedes-Benz’s aerodynamic division, the tyre additionally comes with optimised sidewalls and a bead space design that match the covers mounted on the 20-inch, forged-magnesium wheels, enhancing the tyre’s aerodynamics.
The tyres had been developed utilizing Bridgestone’s digital tyre modelling and simulation capabilities, which allow a digital model of an in-development tyre to be created and examined. Using this expertise implies that growth time was lower significantly.
Bridgestone leveraged the digital setting for a big a part of the event course of, enabling the prediction of how the tyre would carry out in numerous circumstances earlier than bodily constructing it. The elevated flexibility provided by digital tyre growth permits Bridgestone to check much more variants of a given tyre, owing to the velocity at which modifying a tyre’s digital twin and instantly testing it may happen.
Additionally, this digital tyre growth delivers a number of environmental advantages, as each pure useful resource use and exhaust emissions are lower, because of a decrease variety of prototypes that must be produced and examined.
Emilio Tiberio, COO & CTO at Bridgestone EMIA, mentioned: “As part of our commitment to helping shape a sustainable future of mobility, Bridgestone is proud to have co-developed with its long-term partner the right tyres for a project as innovative as this. The Mercedes-Benz VISION EQXX is a project that is totally aligned with our own EV ambitions and targets, especially as we are investing to make electric mobility more efficient and accessible through a fully integrated approach.”
He added, “This includes pioneering premium tyres and tyre technologies able to tackle the greatest EV challenges. This is especially true as we heavily invest in EV tyre development – currently allocated over 30% of our R&D resources – and improve upon our technologies in 2022.”
Source: www.financialexpress.com”