New Volt Tires: Comfort? Handling? Hello?

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• 	rolosrevenge September 3rd, 2009 at 11:30 am
  “How can an extended range electric vehicle achieve triple digit fuel economy?” By making up their own metric that gives them the fuel economy they want. Even if said metric has no real world meaning.
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• 	KixStart September 3rd, 2009 at 11:31 am
  Does GM have some sort of exclusive agreemnt with Goodyear on these or will we see this improving Prius performance, too? I’m betting that Goodyear put significant investment into this and doesn’t want to sell only 10K sets of tires in 2011. And how much will this tread compound cost? If it’s an extra 10%, maybe $40 on a set of tires for the car, that’s not too bad. You’d probably break-even, more or less, extra tire cost vs saved fuel, even at $2.50/gallon. However, if these tires are twice the price… don’t bother.
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• 	David Holzman September 3rd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
  WHEN it comes to market?
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• 	bomber991 September 3rd, 2009 at 8:30 pm
  Goodyears fuelmax tires are already out. My brother put them on his car and got a 10% bump in fuel economy from it.
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• 	mcs September 3rd, 2009 at 9:40 pm
  Does GM have some sort of exclusive agreemnt with Goodyear on these or will we see this improving Prius performance, too? They’re already available for the Prius at Tire Rack.
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• 	Greg Locock September 5th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
  “Goodyears fuelmax tires are already out. My brother put them on his car and got a 10% bump in fuel economy from it.” Hmm, that’s incredible. Literally.
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