VW Tiguan equipped with 18-20” Hankook tyres
Hankook Tire is continuing its original equipment supply to the Volkswagen Tiguan with deliveries of the Ventus evo SUV for the third-generation model. The compact SUV wears the Hankook tyre in five 18-to-20-inch sizes.
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Michelin partners with Beontag in smart tyre cooperation
Beontag, which is known for making RFID and NFC products, has partnered with Michelin to incorporate Beontag’s technology into “millions of new commercial and passenger tyres over the next two years and beyond”. The UHF embedded tag, which consists of a jointly design pod and antenna using state-of-the-art chips and materials, will enable “complete traceability of all new tyres, including manufacture date and storage location, distribution, installation and replacement, refurbishment and more, for the entire life cycle of the tyre”.
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Alliance Agriflex+ 377XT – soil protection & high load carrying capacity
Yokohama-ATG (Y-ATG) has released a new Alliance tyre aimed at heavy machinery such as spreaders and floaters. The Alliance Agriflex+ 377XT is now available in three sizes and sell in many markets around the world. Y-ATG intends to add further sizes to the range throughout 2025.
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Navigating the future of ADAS: How tyre dealers and fast-fits are negotiating the challenges
Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) are a suite of electronic technologies designed to assist drivers in performing driving and parking functions. These systems rely on a variety of sensors, cameras, radars, and LIDAR to detect and interpret the environment around the vehicle. By providing real-time information and performing automatic operations, ADAS enhances driving safety and comfort. Key features include adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assist, collision warning systems, and parking assistance, for example. As regulations and consumer demand for safety and convenience grow, ADAS is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in modern vehicles. And – perhaps even more importantly for garages – when major work is undertaken on a vehicle as well as an increasing amount of not-so-major work – ADAS requires recalibration. In other words, the tyre and fast-fit garages of today have to know how they are going to handle ADAS-related challenges and questions.
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Shell Helix Ultra achieves 2025 API SQ Standard
Shell Helix Ultra is now API SQ ready. Indeed, it is said to be one of the first oils to meet the advanced 2025 API SQ Standard. According to the petrochemical manufacturer, Shell Helix Ultra is designed to “deliver the ultimate performance and protection which today’s high-performance engines need to stay powerful, and responsive, for longer”.
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Auto3iii deploying AI in garages
Auto3iii’s reports that it has strengthened its software solutions with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Using its own Large Language Model (LLM), the Auto3iii is now allowing workshops to compare car defects and vehicle damage with images from millions of other vehicles around the world.
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Petlas launches NZ310 trailer tyre
Petlas Tire Corporation has launched its “latest innovation in trailer tyres”, the NZ310. Engineered to meet the demands of both regional and long-haul applications, the NZ310 reportedly combines “advanced durability with fuel-efficient performance”, making it the “ideal choice for the modern transportation industry”.
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CLEPA Innovation award for Continental UltraContact NXT
On the evening of 4 December, CLEPA – the European Association of Automotive Suppliers – held its ninth CLEPA Innovation Awards in Brussels. In addition to featuring talks with high-level EU policy makers on the future of transport, the event awarded 12 Top Innovators, six each in the categories ‘Digital’ and ‘Green’. The latter category included kudos for a tyre, the Continental UltraContact NXT.
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You’ll be hearing a lot more about us – MRL preparing for European growth
In January, MRL Tires will present its range at LAMMA 2025. We gained a foretaste of what it is bringing to the UK’s premier agricultural machinery show last month, as the company also exhibited at EIMA in Bologna and used the trade fair as a platform for launching several new European market products. Our sister publication PneusNews.it spoke with Satinder Singh, General Manager of Export Sales & Marketing at MRL, who shared insights about the Indian company and its growth plans for Europe.
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NIRA Dynamics pairs real-time tyre data with weather information
NIRA Dynamics, which is known for its indirect TPMS technology, and Vaisala Xweather have releases an integrated data set which connects road weather forecasts and computer vision observations with real-time connected car data. The integration draws on NIRA Dynamics’ data from billions of data points gathered from connected vehicles, paired with Vaisala Xweather’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning-based (ML) road weather forecasting models. These, according to the companies, achieve accuracy levels 50 per cent higher than those of publicly available forecasts.
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Global TPMS market could be worth >$13 billion by 2032
The global Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) market was worth $6-8 billion in 2023 a figure that could double by 2032, according to the latest reports published by two market research firms. The worldwide TPMS market reached a value of US$5.87 billion in 2023, according to Research and Markets. Furthermore, the market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.4 per cent between 2024 and 2032 to reach a value of $13.2 billion by 2032.
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Nokian Tyres debuts new summer, all-season van tyres
New summer and all-season products have joined the Nokian Tyres portfolio for vans and delivery vehicles. After debuting the Seasonproof C1 all-season tyre in November, Nokian Tyres will release the Cargoproof C summer tyre in February 2025. Both sit alongside the existing Nokian Tyres Snowproof C winter tyre within the Finnish manufacturer’s van segment range.
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AI-supported app collects tyre data in seconds
Hand scanners, callipers and even the naked eye are still the main tools that many use to assess the quality of tyres. But these approaches take too long and make human error an occupational hazard. Furthermore, these data points are often written down by hand before later being entered manually into a digital ERP system, all making room for more mistakes to creep in. To reduce the workload and ease the time pressure on staff, the Karl + Co. car dealership in Mainz, Germany has been using the TireScanMobile app from GL Technology GmbH for a year now. With the help of the menu-guided application and AI-based object recognition, it records the tyre model quickly and accurately and automatically stores all relevant information digitally.
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4 new tyres boost BKT agri portfolio
At November’s EIMA 2024 show in Italy, BKT launched four new products that it “designed and engineered to meet the increasingly complex needs of modern agriculture.” The off-highway tyre specialist comments that “efficiency and productivity” were the “driving force” behind the research and development process involved in bringing these tyres to market.
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Giti introduces in-tyre RFID technology
Giti Tire has begun digitising its European truck and bus (TBR) portfolio by embedding RFID chips into new product sidewalls to allow whole tyre life monitoring. Allowing identification on a single unit level and guaranteed across the lifetime of each tyre, digital information will be readable by all stakeholders and users and cover tyre manufacturing, logistics, OEMs and distributors and wholesalers, fleet management, quality assurance, retreading and end-of-life, according to the company.
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