Getting a Grip: Measuring tyre emissions to reduce them for better air and faster decarbonisation of transport

轮胎是所有交通工具的滚动基础，但在使用过程中，它是影响空气、陆地和海洋的微塑料污染的主要来源，但在很大程度上是“看不见的”。仅英国每年就产生53万吨轮胎废物，但在我们处理丢弃的旧轮胎之前，每个轮胎至少会脱落一公斤重的磨损颗粒，主要是微颗粒（小于5毫米）。这是一个巨大而被忽视的问题，目前没有相关法规，也没有消费者标签。这个问题的另一个方面是，它会影响所有未来的电动汽车，就像它会影响我们已经熟悉的汽车和其他车辆一样。为了帮助电动汽车的普及和运输系统的相关脱碳，该项目将开发一种产品，该产品将在现实世界的条件下收集、测量和表征轮胎排放。硬件也是轮胎方法论的基础，我们将提供商业服务。该产品开发的主要分包商是英国斯塔福德郡的Alconbury Weston有限公司和牛津郡的Scielutions有限公司，而确定的产品和服务的未来客户是英国伦敦的ENSO有限公司。该项目由Emissions Analytics公司领导，该公司是废气和非废气排放方面的英国专家。我们还确定了一系列未来的客户，最近的一个是ENSO，一家总部位于英国的公司，正在开发更好的轮胎和轮胎服务。通过ENSO，我们对包括DPD、皇家邮政和Gnewt在内的一系列货运试验合作伙伴具有潜在的未来吸引力；除此之外，我们还对吉利及其主要品牌沃尔沃和LEVC产生了进一步的兴趣，它们承诺对未来车辆的所有组件应用严格的指标，以保持价值和延长寿命。我们相信，通过解决电动汽车采用的主要障碍之一，我们的产品将为加速向低碳交通的转变做出重大贡献。

Tyres are the rolling basis of all transport yet during use are a major but largely 'invisible' source of microplastic pollution affecting air, land and sea. The UK alone produces 530,000 tonnes of tyre waste a year, but before we even get to the discarded carcasses of old tyres each one will have shed at least a kilogram of weight in abraded particles mostly at the micro-level (<5mm). This is an enormous and overlooked problem for which there are currently no regulations and no consumer labelling. A further dimension of this problem is that it affects all future electric vehicles just as it affects the cars and other vehicles we are already familiar with. To assist the uptake of electric vehicles and the associated decarbonisation of the transport system, this project will develop a product that will collect, measure and characterise tyre emissions in real world conditions. The hardware is the basis also of a tyrewear methodology we will offer as a commercial service. The principle subcontractors for this product development are Staffordshire, UK company Alconbury Weston Ltd and Oxfordshire, UK company Scielutions Ltd., while the identified future customer for the product and service is London, UK-based company ENSO Ltd. The project lead is Emissions Analytics, UK-based experts in both exhaust and non-exhaust emissions. We have also identified a range of future customers, the immediate one being ENSO, a UK-based company that is developing better tyres and tyres as a service. Through ENSO we have potential future traction for a series of freight trial partners including DPD, Royal Mail and Gnewt; beyond it we have further interest from Geely and its principal brand Volvo and LEVC, which have committed to apply rigorous metrics to all components of future vehicles with a view to value retention and extended longevity. We believe that our product will materially contribute to accelerating the shift to low-carbon transportation by addressing one of the key hurdles to electric car adoption.