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Goodyear’s new prototype tires are made of soybeans — and they could majorly improve your gas mileage
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What’s more, Goodyear says that the new prototype has already passed Department of Transportation testing, meaning it’s approved for road use. Now, all it has to do is secure enough materials to produce the new tires at a commercial scale, and then the tires should be hitting the roads.
The tires are made from soybean oil (instead of petroleum oil), rice husk silica (a byproduct of rice milling that is abundant in rice-producing countries), postconsumer polyester, and biorenewable pine tar resins.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news...&ei=15#image=2
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