India, Aug. 14 -- Imagine a giant tyre that weighs twice the weight of your EV, costing as much or more than your EV; you are looking at the largest truck tyres in production. Weighing over 3.5 tonnes and standing better than four metres in diameter, these giants are actually very sensitive.

Such tyres support loads of 100,000 kg; yes, that's a single tyre. The truck fully loaded is more than 600 tonnes. To put that in perspective, that single tyre supports 50 average cars - that's 300 cars in a single vehicle.

These tyres have to be managed very carefully to extract the maximum amount of work without destroying them. Overwork the tyres or engage in poor maintenance and the tyre can fail, sometimes catastrophically, and this can happen ...