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Tyres
Tegan Jones
If you know anything about car tyres, you’ll know that it’s all about the contact patch: the more rubber that meets the road, the better grip you’ll have — in perfect driving circumstances, of course. But there are times you’d actually want less grip, like efficient highway driving (or maybe…
Odessa, Texas has been featured in pop culture landmarks like No Country For Old Men as the quintessential middle of nowhere town. It’s so isolated that when an estimated 100,000 tyres caught fire on Sunday, the closest fire hydrant was about 6.5km away. That means that a lot of toxic…
Guayule is an little-known desert shrub, largely unremarkable except for one thing: It’s full of latex. That’s right, the stuff used to make rubber. Big tyre manufacturers like Bridgestone are now betting on guayule as the next big thing.
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