{"id":157554,"date":"2023-02-10T14:24:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T20:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/bridgestones-airless-tires-near-production-testing-to-begin-soon"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:24:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T20:24:57","slug":"bridgestones-airless-tires-near-production-testing-to-begin-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/bridgestones-airless-tires-near-production-testing-to-begin-soon","title":{"rendered":"Bridgestone\u2019s airless tires near production, testing to begin soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uyDODOFEmrY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Its concept is maintenance-free, recyclable, and offers low rolling resistance.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of airless tires is getting closer to production, with Bridgestone\u2019s version going in for testing in February 2023. The firm\u2019s product is based on its \u201cAir Free Concept,\u201d a technology that eliminates the need for tires to be inflated with air to support the weight using a unique structure of spokes stretching along the inner sides of tires.<\/p>\n<p>According to DesignBoom, the testing will be done in association with Idemitsu Kosan Co, using one of its compact electric vehicles. More than 3 billion tires are produced around the world in a year, and the market for airless tires is expected to hit $77.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Bridgestone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its concept is maintenance-free, recyclable, and offers low rolling resistance. The concept of airless tires is getting closer to production, with Bridgestone\u2019s version going in for testing in February 2023. The firm\u2019s product is based on its \u201cAir Free Concept,\u201d a technology that eliminates the need for tires to be inflated with air to support [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}