When it comes to personal transportation vehicles, golf carts used to be all about "bling." Think flaming decals, paint jobs, seat covers or undercar lights. And for the tires, the bigger the better. ...

NORTH CANTON, Ohio—When Chi-Pao Yang founded Kenda in 1962, the manufacturer produced bicycle tires and tubes with just 50 employees in the small town of Yuanlin, Taiwan. Today, 60 years later, Kenda ...

Walking through a Harbor Freight Tools store or even visiting the company's online storefront can be a little bit intimidating for the casual DIYer's because there are so many products to choose from.

Run-flat tires are nothing new, but Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has redefined the term—by inventing a new kind of rubber that actually heals ...

The performance of modern tires is fundamentally governed by the frictional properties of rubber. Complex interactions between viscoelastic material behaviour, adhesion at the contact interface and ...

Underneath a graffitied overpass near River Terrace Park in D.C., two girls in rubbery overalls stood on the muddy banks of the Anacostia River. They stared at a large plastic trash can trapped in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tomato peels, eggshells and other food that gets discarded could be turned into sustainable ...

Rubber is everywhere in modern vehicles, from tires to timing belts. Eventually, all these items wear out, usually by cracking after countless cycles of stretching and snapping back into shape.

Microcyclus uleivirtually wiped out the Brazilian rubber industry, and while strict quarantine measures adopted in 1955 continue to protect the rubber industry in southeast Asia (which supplies 93 ...

Tire manufacturers hope to play a critical role in feeding real-time information to self-driving vehicles, though first the companies will have to beat technical limitations and difficulties around ...