EV Tires That Enhance Your Electric Vehicle Ride

Buy the right EV tire for your needs

Did you know that choosing the right tire for your EV can help improve range, durability, performance and control?
Tires may look similar, but they can be optimized to perform for different conditions and usages, especially for your Electric Vehicle. What’s most important to you? Below we list what's your interest and the tires we offer!

Range: Go Further between every charge

Michelin Primacy Tour A/S - EV Compatible
Michelin Primacy All Season - EV Compatible
Michelin Primacy MXV4 - EV Compatible

The MICHELIN® Primacy™ Tires combine all-weather car handling and traction for a quiet and comfortable ride. You can trust that our Primacy™ tires are safe, reliable, and durable, with fuel efficiency and great traction. Experience the smoothest all-season or summer tires no matter where you are going. Chosen by premium carmakers, MICHELIN® Primacy™ Tires deliver a performance touring, luxury tire experience on every ride.

Durability: Go the distance on your set of tires

Performance: Unleash the full potential of your EV

Michelin Pilot Sport All Season - EV Compatible
Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S - EV Compatible
Michelin Pilot Sport EV - EV Compatible
Michelin Pilot Alpin 5 - EV Compatible
Michelin Alpin 5 SUV - EV Compatible
Michelin Alpin PA4 - EV Compatible

MICHELIN® Pilot® tires combine a luxurious ride with unprecedented performance for an unmatched driving experience. MICHELIN® Pilot® tires demonstrate excellent car handling, braking, and the control & confidence needed to make the most out of any high-performance vehicle. With a prestigious Original Equipment fitments and a heritage of street to track tire performance, the MICHELIN® Pilot® family of tires are the perfect high performance tires for your next ride.

All Season / All Weather: Go with confidence all the time

Michelin Crossclimate 2 - EV Compatible

Winter: Take control on snow and ice

Michelin X-Ice Snow - EV Compatible
Michelin X-Ice North 4 - EV Compatible
Michelin Pilot Alpin 5 - EV Compatible
Michelin Alpin 5 SUV - EV Compatible
Michelin Alpin PA4 - EV Compatible
Michelin Latitude Alpin LA2 - EV Compatible

Winter driving can be nerve-wracking for everyone, but MICHELIN® Winter Tires offer the ultimate confidence on snowy and icy roads. Exclusive tire tread designed with exceptional tire grip improves braking performance and decreases risk of hydroplaning all while increasing the life of your tires. Explore our trustworthy winter tire selections so you can buy winter tires with ease.

EV vs ICE

EV: Electric Vehicle
ICE: Internal Combustion Engine

Do EVs require special tires?

How is an EV different from an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle regarding the demands placed on the tire?

In general, EVs are heavier than their ICE counterparts. Vehicle weight is a critical factor in the wear rate of the tire, with more weight leading to faster wear. In addition to more weight, EVs often have more torque available for rapid acceleration combined with regenerative braking to recharge the batteries on deceleration. The combination of more weight and the addition of regenerative braking results in more rapid tire wear. On average, EVs will wear out a tire 20% faster than a comparable ICE vehicle.

Tires adapted for EV's

How is an Original Equipment (OE) tire tuned for an EV?

Low Rolling Resistance. To maximize range, EV manufacturers generally demand tires tuned for low rolling resistance. The push for lower rolling resistance tires is not new or exclusive to EVs. To meet CAFÉ (Corporate Average Fuel Economy/US Department of Transportation) fuel economy targets, vehicle manufacturers have been asking for low rolling resistance tires for decades.
Low Noise. Because EVs generate less noise, the noise produced by the interaction of the tire and road is more intrusive. Tires tuned for EVs offer the highest refinement in noise, often combined with other noise reduction technologies such as MICHELIN^® Acoustic. These noise reduction technologies focus on a specific type of noise, generated on certain road surfaces. You may notice the difference, depending on the roads you drive.

How are all Michelin tirelines compatible for EV applications?

Wear: To cope with the added weight and torque, new generations of Michelin tirelines are engineered to offer increased wear potential to offset the 20% wear impact of EVs. Defender^®2 offers more than 20% more wear potential than Defender^® T+H. CrossClimate^®2 improved the wear potential over Premier™ A/S by more than 20%. X-Ice^® SNOW exhibits excellence and longevity that lasts up to 1 additional winter than the average of leading competitors.

Load: New generations of tirelines have moved to more extra load (XL) sizes and higher speed ratings to match EV requirements. In addition, a new standard of tires known as HLC (High Load Capacity) tires is slowly being introduced to the market. This allows for even greater loads on the same sized tire without increasing the air pressure.

Range: Michelin has been a pioneer in low rolling resistance technology for over 2 decades. MICHELIN^® Green X^® technology was introduced in 1992 which reduced rolling resistance by a factor of three since the first pneumatic tire was introduced. Michelin tirelines provide excellent low rolling resistance in each category.

Range - general

Is there a range difference between new and worn tires of the same MSPN?

Long Range batteries vs short range batteries, dependent on the tire, we are seeing the biggest drops in range on long range batteries. How do we explain this to the customers?

There are two reasons tires have a larger impact on vehicles with more range.

For the same vehicle, the impact of tire differences, is a percentage of the reference.
Example: (A 10% difference on a vehicle with 200 kilometres of range is 20 kilometres.
For a range of 300 kilometres, the 10% difference would be 30 kilometres).
The heavier the vehicle, the more tires matter. This is because, the more weight that is put on a tire, at the same inflation pressure, the greater the energy loss by the tire. Vehicles with extended range are heavier due to the additional batteries, so a change in tires will have a greater difference.

EV TIRES

Buy the right EV tire for your needs

EV vs ICE

Do EVs require special tires?

How is an EV different from an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle regarding the demands placed on the tire?

Tires adapted for EV's

How is an Original Equipment (OE) tire tuned for an EV?

How are all Michelin tirelines compatible for EV applications?

Range - general

Is there a range difference between new and worn tires of the same MSPN?

Long Range batteries vs short range batteries, dependent on the tire, we are seeing the biggest drops in range on long range batteries. How do we explain this to the customers?

Winter tires for EV's

What Michelin winter tire do we suggest for EV application?

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