Bridgestone EMEA (Bridgestone) is finishing the line-up of its flagship long-haul Ecopia tyre vary with ENLITEN expertise, following the launch of Ecopia Trailer. With this addition to the vary, freeway fleets can now enhance gasoline effectivity and scale back complete value of possession throughout Steer, Drive and Trailer axles, whereas all three additionally contribute to considerably decreasing CO2 emissions.
All through rigorous testing1, the Bridgestone Ecopia vary considerably outperforms the earlier era for decreased CO2 emissions throughout the life cycle – with the Steer and Drive tyres receiving impartial, pioneering ISO 14067 certification.
Because of important financial savings on gasoline consumption, Bridgestone Ecopia Steer, Drive and Trailer assist scale back carbon emissions when the tyre is in use by 3.2% 1, 6% 1 and 5.6%2 respectively per kilometre pushed. Thanks additionally to the considerably improved put on of the Ecopia Steer, Drive and Trailer tyres, the CO2 emissions per kilometre allotted all through manufacturing3 (the so-called ‘cradle to gate’ section) is now decreased by 38.4%1, 10.8%1 and 20.4%2 respectively.
“Bridgestone Ecopia represents the way forward for long-haul transport,” stated Waqqas Ahmad, Business Gross sales Director, Bridgestone EMEA. “Environment friendly and revolutionary, our flagship long-haul tyre vary is engineered to assist scale back gasoline consumption and carbon emissions – with out compromising tyre efficiency ranges.
“Now with the launch of Ecopia Trailer, our companions can maximise these advantages. For each fleet operations and the OEMs we work with, the entire Bridgestone Ecopia vary is right here to help your decarbonisation goals, enable you to meet new and upcoming sustainability rules and, on the identical time, scale back your complete value of possession.”
Jaroslav Klčo, Co-Proprietor of A.R.P.I. spol. s r. o. Slovakia, a versatile and customer-oriented firm specializing in transportation and freight forwarding inside European Nations, which equips its truck fleet with Bridgestone Ecopia tyres with ENLITEN expertise, added: “With the brand new Bridgestone Ecopia tyres, we considerably decreased gasoline consumption. In addition they guarantee even put on and assist to attain increased mileage. Drivers respect tyres that provide good grip in dry and moist circumstances on highways, even in winter.”
Efficiency good points enabled by Bridgestone’s ENLITEN expertise
Bridgestone Ecopia’s decreased possession prices and environmental impression on the roads are made attainable by decreased rolling resistance and improved put on life, in comparison with its earlier era.4
The Bridgestone tyre vary gives a rolling resistance discount throughout all axles versus its earlier era4, together with an as much as 12 per cent enchancment within the Drive axle. This allows a best-in-class EU label A-grade efficiency in gasoline effectivity. Moreover, Bridgestone Ecopia gives enhanced mileage throughout all axles, with 40 per cent increased mileage on Steer – because of the addition of Spiral Belt Know-how – 6 per cent on Drive and 10 per cent on the Trailer axle.2
Bridgestone Ecopia’s important efficiency good points are enabled by the combination of ENLITEN expertise, Bridgestone’s revolutionary method to tyre improvement. ENLITEN is a mixture of cutting-edge applied sciences offering most security, excellent tyre efficiency and improved sustainability traits, whereas making certain that Bridgestone tyres are EV and future-ready.
The Bridgestone Ecopia vary with ENLITEN expertise key sizes align with the brand new EU Taxonomy standards for each rolling resistance and exterior rolling noise necessities, reinforcing Bridgestone’s dedication to lowering CO₂ emissions and supporting environmentally accountable fleet operations and EV-readiness.
Following the 2023 launches of Bridgestone Ecopia Steer and Drive, Ecopia Trailer might be obtainable to the European market from February 2025.
1 All calculations for Ecopia Drive and Steer have been performed following the Product Class Guidelines for Tires realized by UL – model 3.05 (November 2017), developed by Tire Trade Undertaking (TIP) underneath the umbrella of World Enterprise Council for Sustainable Improvement (WBCSD) – and independently verified by a third-party (SGS) towards the ISO 14067 “Greenhouse gases — Carbon footprint of merchandise — Necessities and pointers for quantification”. Earlier era refers back to the following tyres: ECOPIA H-DRIVE 002 315/70R22.5 and ECOPIA H-STEER 002 315/70R22.5. New era refers back to the following tyres: ECOPIA DRIVE 315/70R22.5 and ECOPIA STEER 315/70R22.5. All the outcomes of the Carbon Footprint have been normalized per purposeful unit (1000 km pushed) in line with Product Class Guidelines for tires launched by UL model 3.05 (November 2017).
2 All calculations for Ecopia Trailer had been performed internally following the Product Class Guidelines for Tires realized by UL – model 3.05 (November 2017), developed by Tire Trade Undertaking (TIP) underneath the umbrella of World Enterprise Council for Sustainable Improvement (WBCSD). Earlier era refers back to the following tyres: ECOPIA H-TRAILER 002 385/55R22.5. New era refers back to the following tyres: ECOPIA TRAILER 385/55R22.5. All the outcomes of the Carbon Footprint have been normalized per purposeful unit (1000 km pushed) in line with Product Class Guidelines for tires launched by UL model 3.05 (November 2017
3 The ‘cradle to buyer gate’ (prior to make use of) section consists of uncooked materials manufacturing and transportation, product manufacturing and distribution.
4 In response to inside evaluations & discipline assessments performed by Bridgestone Technical Middle, evaluating Bridgestone Ecopia Steer– Ecopia Drive – Ecopia Trailer with ENLITEN expertise versus Bridgestone Ecopia H-Steer 002 – Ecopia H-Drive 002 – Ecopia H-Trailer 002 in dimension 315/70 R22.5 and 385/55 R22.5 respectively, +12% RRc in Drive, 8% RRc in Steer and 5% RRc in Trailer. Mileage efficiency is obtained on pure long-haul software with vans driving majority on highways and precise enchancment might fluctuate as they depend upon operational circumstances.
