Tyre that converts Heat into Work

The world demands Energy, and energy from everything that is what our future is all about and the one who can produce Energy will be at top of chart. Something similar happened this week in Geneva International Auto Show where tyre manufacturer Goodyear introduced a new concept of energy generation from the tyres.

A traditional car gets its power from engine which in turn rotates the wheels but a new concept tyre introduced by Goodyear named BHO3 which would use all the heat energy which it gets from various sources like sunlight, friction to convert it into useful or mechanical work,  which could be considered as a tyre full of surprises.

Goodyear is interested in producing energy directly from the tires, harvesting their heat energy with its BHO3 concept tire. According to Goodyear, while the car is sitting idle, the BHO3 tires would start to warm as sunlight hits the tires and the ground beneath. (The tire will be given an ultra black coat for maximum absorption of light and heat.) The heat would be transferred to the car through thermoelectric materials just under the tire’s surface that can generate voltage as the material flexes in response to temperature changes.


And when the car is moving the friction force will come into action which would result in the increment of the temperature of the tires and the heat can be collected through the sensors. “These concept tires reimagine the role that tires may play in the future,” Joe Zekoski, Goodyear’s senior vice president and chief technical officer, said in a statement.

The company only explained about the tyres bit not about the types of materials used for collecting heat, or how it would convert it into work or how it would maintain the cooling off the superheated tyre, but one thing is sure if the tyre comes into action it could eliminate our need for gasoline