Scope of Report Product of Interest (POI): Tire By Vehicle Type: ❑ Passenger Car Tires: Tires that are designed for vehicles like hatchbacks, sedans, coupes, and crossovers fall under passenger car tires. Tread is the outer part of a tire that makes direct contact with the ground. The tread band embodies a grooved section on top of a base, and majority of passenger car tire grooves starts out 9/32 to 13/32 inch deep. Passenger car tires are equipped with two steel belts that are used to provide strength and stability to the tread area. ❑ Commercial Vehicle Tires: Commercial vehicle tires include tires for Light Commercial Vehicles (LCVs) & Heavy and Medium Duty Commercial Vehicles. Vehicles like work vans, larger pickup trucks, buses and coaches, sizeable trucks that are designed to regularly carry heavy loads or pull heavy trailers fall under commercial vehicles. Mostly, medium truck and bus tires have four steel belts. Doubling of the steel belts makes the vehicle tire more robust and durable. Mostly, commercial vehicle tire grooves are 20/32 inch deep, double of passenger car tires. ❑ Off-the-Road Tires: These tires are designed to travel on unpaved surfaces, muddy regions, loose dirt, sand or gravel, rock, snow etc., where factors like off-road grip, puncture resistance, and vehicle load ratings comes into play. These tires have custom designed tread patterns, and the grooves between the tread blocks are wide. OTR tire are styled with reinforced sidewalls to provide higher resistance to punctures. These tires have reduced patch area in order to have less contact with the road surface during wheel rotation, however the reduced grip dips the fuel efficiency of the vehicle. OTR tires include tires of all terrain vehicles (ATVs), mining equipment, construction machinery, etc. These tires have shorter tread life as compared to passenger car tires. ❑ Two-Wheeler Tires: Tires used in motorised two-wheelers like motorcycles, mopeds and scooters are classified under Two-Wheeler Tires. These tires are light in weight compared to other types of tires like passenger car tires and are equipped with an aim of steering, braking, handling, absorbing road undulations and carrying the load of the rider and passenger. Broadly there are two types of two-wheeler tires, tubeless and tube-type tires, where tubeless tires are fitted with alloy wheels and tube-type tires are predominantly used on spoked steel rimmed wheels. 9 Automotive © TechSci Research 9