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 acquired an International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) for the tire’s recycled and renewable-material content material.
2025 Audi E-Tron GT
The particular 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, in line with Bridgestone. The tire can even be manufactured at a plant in Rome powered by renewable vitality, the corporate provides.
Bridgestone goals to realize 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 vehicles.
Firestone Firehawk IndyCar race tires made with guayule rubber
With no “tailpipe” emissions to talk of, emissions from the manufacturing of tires and different elements make up a much bigger a part of EVs’ carbon footprint. That is led different tire makers and automakers, similar to Michelin and Hyundai, to have a look at methods of creating EV tires extra environmentally pleasant.
Goodyear in 2022 unveiled a prototype tire produced from 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.
