As temperatures drop, the risks for motorists increase. It is darker more often, there is more rain, in a wooded area dead leaves make the road surface slippery and after a night of frost danger lurks around every bend. With an adapted driving style you can already prevent a lot of suffering. If you also choose good tires, developed for these conditions, you are always assured of grip and safety.
Do winter tires still make sense in a country like the Netherlands? That is a question that is often asked and that is why it is good to know that winter tires from Hankook not only have been developed to provide maximum grip and traction on snow, but also on wet, cold and slippery roads. To perform well at low temperatures, a different rubber compound is required and the structure of the profile is also different from that of a summer tyre.
Test-winning winter tires from Hankook
With the well-known Winter i*cept Evo series, Hankook manages to impress time and time again in comparative tire tests and also come out on top. Like with the Hankook Winter i*cept evo 3x and the Hankook Winter i*cept RS2. Hankook manages to maintain this leading position by continuously innovating, also when it comes to sustainability.
Winter tire for the electric car: Hankook iON Winter
Hankook developed the summer tire Ventus iON S especially for the electric car and now there is the Hankook iON Winter. The Hankook iON Winter excels on wet, slippery and cold road surfaces and in snow. This winter tire manages to combine this with low rolling noise thanks to Hankook’s Sound Absorber™ technology and low rolling resistance, for more electric kilometers in the cold seasons.
Hankook as a partner of Formula E
For a few years now, Formula E has existed alongside F1, where electric racing cars compete for the highest honor at the same level. The Dutch driver Robin Frijns will also be at the start again in the 2023 season in a total of 18 races. From then on, Hankook is the technical partner and tire supplier of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, as it is fully known. Hankook’s technical team works very closely with the race teams and drivers.
Sustainable production
The development of tires at Hankook keeps pace with the changes in the vehicle fleet, which has already been reflected in recent years in tires specially optimized for electromobility for Audi, BMW, Porsche and Tesla, among others. The new Hankook Ventus iON S takes the next step and the Hankook iON Winter completes the range. Hankook received the ‘S&P Global Gold Class’ award and ranks in the top one percent of the EcoVadis sustainability ratings, further reason to choose the new iON series as the tire for an electric car.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl