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Bridgestone’s newest tires have 55% recycled and renewable supplies


Bridgestone is now producing a tire with 55% recycled and renewable supplies, for use on the Audi E-Tron GT, the automaker’s present flagship efficiency EV.

The tire in query is a variant of the Bridgestone Potenza Sport summer time efficiency tire, on this case tailor-made particularly to the E-Tron GT, in accordance Bridgestone. The corporate famous it obtained an International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) for the tire’s recycled and renewable-material content material.

2025 Audi E-Tron GT

2025 Audi E-Tron GT

The precise breakdown is 35% renewable materials, together with pure rubber and bio-attributed polymers, and 20% recycled supplies, together with floor rubber and carbon black recovered from used tires, in addition to rice husks and ash silica, based on Bridgestone. The tire may even be manufactured at a plant in Rome powered by renewable vitality, the corporate provides.

Bridgestone goals to attain carbon neutrality and use 100% sustainable supplies in its tires by 2050. The corporate beforehand made small batches of IndyCar race tires with pure rubber from an American southwest crop referred to as guayule, however this marks the primary manifestation of its sustainability push in mass-produced tires for street automobiles.

Firestone Firehawk IndyCar race tires made with guayule rubber

Firestone Firehawk IndyCar race tires made with guayule rubber

With no “tailpipe” emissions to talk of, emissions from the manufacturing of tires and different parts make up a much bigger a part of EVs’ carbon footprint. That is led different tire makers and automakers, corresponding to Michelin and Hyundai, to have a look at methods of constructing EV tires extra environmentally pleasant.

Goodyear in 2022 unveiled a prototype tire constituted of 70% sustainable supplies, though it wasn’t commercially accessible. The next 12 months it revealed greener tires for the Tesla Mannequin 3 made with carbon black that did not require the combustion of fossil fuels to generate.

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