near-fossil-free rubber tires

[sgtlethargic]

That'd be great.

https://www.motortrend.com/events/go...able-ces-2023/

[freebeard]

That's a pretty fancy tire sidewall.

Still no mention of orange peels?

https://www.popularmechanics.com › cars › hybrid-electric › a7593 › the-science-behind-yokohamas-orange-oil-tires-8146348
The Science Behind Yokohama's Orange Oil Tires - Popular Mechanics
The key: new technology using oil derived from orange peels to displace some of the petroleum that's typically used in tires. Tires, like any manufactured product, are a compromise. In this...

[oil pan 4]

The problem with using sunlight to cure tires is even a smaller tire operation where they run say a dozen car and pickup truck tire mold presses is still going to use hundreds of millions to a billion BTUs of natural gas per day.
Then if the flow or temperature of the steam fall out side of a narrow window of parameters that tire is junked.