Tire Fuel Effeciency Consumer Information
NHTSA (National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration) was originally supposed to publish a rule concerning the publication of rolling resistance data for tires in 2010, based on a mandate from the US Congress in 2007. There was a large problem with what they published (short version: It was unworkable!). So they went back to the drawing board.
Eventually they came back saying they would publish a rule in 2012. That date came and went. Earlier this year I found a publication of new rules being worked on by the US Federal government: https://www.transportation.gov/regul...nt-rulemakings Back when I found this report, the rule of tire fuel economy had a future publication date of Aug, 2018 - that would be this month! However, the latest report is that the rule will be published in June, 2019. I am putting this here to remind folks (and me, too!) that there is something coming and where to go to find the status, but it appears to have been kicked down the road again. |
I should have worked for the NHTSA.
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Geez. I would love to have detailed standards and data published by NHTSA. Wish they would stop kicking it down the road already
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Seems a fairly straightforward process to define standard testing parameters such as inflation pressure, temperature, and weight load, and then measure how much energy it takes to roll the tire at a specified speed.
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Is there a euro one we can use? Years ago after seeing a few lists with tires and rr I thought we'd be so far ahead compared to where we are now.
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Gooberment said the many "different" tire-testing dynamometer sites didn't match data-wise, so single data publication isn't possible.
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Among the problems was the amount of available testing facilities. The tire manufacturers said that if they tested 24/7 - and nothing else - it would take 3 years. Some said they couldn't accomplish the task unless they sacrificed some R&D testing. Some said that by the time they completed the first round of testing, there would be new models to test and they would never catch up. |
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Or does the problem have more to do with breaking in the tire so that it performs in a consistent way? |
You'd think they'd be able to calculate it fairly closely with computer models, calculations based on tread design and material selection...
Yeah, it won't be perfect in the real world, but it ought to give an idea without the cost of testing every size of a particular tire. |
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