There's a number of reviews online that look at these tires.
Excellent.
Please share the links so that we all can make logical decisions from the same set of data points.
In 50 years of driving, I can honestly state than any accident I've been in was due to mine or the other driver's errors and not due to my choice of tires...
I can.
I've avoided multiple accidents where my threshold / ABS breaking stopped my car within 1-2 feet of someone's mistake. Or when I was able to emergency maneuver into onto a shoulder with micro-seconds of a pickup truck that locked up its wheels plowing into and rear-ending a car that was right ahead of mine. Ambulances were called to assist the injured.
If I was on cheaper/lower-traction tires, there is zero doubt that my car's sheet metal would have been bent, and my bones would have been crunched. It would not have been my fault in any of the above situations, but an accident repair / insurance claim /hospital visit experience are not fun projects, regardless of whose fault it was.
The truth is that there aren’t gigantic performance differences between tires in the same class now.
That's entirely NOT true.
Observe any independent (e.g.: TireRack) comparison and the gap between even top-shelf tires.
The deltas are measured in seconds, not even tens of seconds. In full and multiple seconds.
Engineering matters.
Quality control matters.
Rubber chemistry matters.
Your bias towards Chinese tires is quite surprising, haha.
My bias as against cheap-o no-brand tires, which tend to mostly come from China these days. A few still come from South Korea and the US (e.g.: whatever PepBoys "special" peddles these days).
Your brand are no-name rubbers from China. It is what it is.
Chinese tires are nearly half the price of Michelin, and while they may not match the quality Michelin provides, they are more than adequate for everyday driving.
If saving money on the only object that connects you and your car with the road is a priority for you - sure, go for it.
I find that to be a very misguided bargain, at best.
For myself, and anyone I care about, my strong recommendation is to buy the best tire with the best traction that you can find for your application.
As seen on other threads the Hankook iON EVO AS also give a good efficiency improvement and are likely at least as good if not better than the Michelin MXM4 on other areas.
Hankook is now a premium tire maker with this one. The summer version equalled or slightly beat the Michelin Pilot Sport 5 (yes 5) summer on most performance measures while being significantly more efficient.
Hankook makes a few good tires. I can't find any independent tests of low-resistance EV offerings from either Michelin or Hankook.
The only thing out there is TR's test of EV-Focused Ultra High Performance All-Season Tires in 2023. TR included Goodyear ElectricDrive GT and Pirelli P Zero All Season Plus Elect on Model 3 Performance in 2023 test. Pirelli won in 2023, just like it did over Goodyear in 2022.
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