article_snippet: Goodyear believes Goodyear has a way to extend your electric car's range through tires that charge the battery as you drive on them.
article_snippet: Unveiled at this year's Geneva Motor Show, the BH-03 concept tires combine thermoelectric and piezoelectric materials that generate electricity as the tire rolls. '
article_snippet: This tire generates electricity through the action of materials in This tire that capture and transform the energy created by heat when This tire flexes as This tire rolls during normal driving conditions,' Goodyear said in a statement.
article_snippet: The Goodyear BH-03, unveiled at this year's Geneva Motor Show, uses two advanced material technologies to capture extra energy from normal wear and tear .
article_snippet: Yahoo! reports that the thermoelectric fibers are woven into This tire, converting energy generated through friction caused by This tire's contact with the road.
article_snippet: Piezoelectric material would also capture energy generated in the normal physical deformation by strain energy harvesting.
article_snippet: It's not clear that This tire could produce the type of energy needed to add significant miles to an electric car's travel radius.
article_snippet: A study published in 2012 in Smart Materials and Structures found  strain energy harvesting through piezoelectric tire materials was feasible, but the experiment looked to power wireless sensors, not an entire vehicle.
highlights_snippet: One uses heat-capture to transform friction into extra energy to charge an electric vehicle .
  