Flat tires and AAA roadside assistance may soon be past memories. NASA Glenn Research engineers have just unveiled a new super-elastic tire constructed from nickel titanium, a shape memory alloy ...

The new airless Michelin tire system will first see use in small scale fleet testing in South Carolina, with a market launch in the 2024 time frame.

Michelin announced a new US$50 million plant in 2014 for producing airless tires. The Tweel is being produced for non-passenger vehicle use, specifically in construction, farm, and other equipment.

Miami palm trees, pastel art deco hotels, and a century of French tire genius! it turns out they pair surprisingly well, and ...

Michelin needs all that data, because despite its more than 130 years making pneumatic tires, airless tires bring new challenges. “Airless technology is completely new in terms of design, in ...

Michelin's new Unique Puncture-Proof Tire System (Uptis) does away with one of the defining aspects of tires as we've known them for more than 100 years: the air inside.

The airless tires are made from PRO FLEX Filament – a new thermoplastic elastomer that introduces flexibility to 3D-printing. Designer and test cyclist Marco Mattia Cristofori described the ride ...

Because puncturing an inflatable tire while driving around the surface of the Moon would have been a disaster, the Lunar Rover, delivered by Apollo 15, instead featured airless tires made of ...

But the real headline is "no air" -- which means no flat tires ever again. "It's like a guitar string," says Thompson. "It's tension tight." Consider all the changes to an industry that sells 300 ...

Now a new airless tire using a flexible, honeycomb-like internal structure could again prove to be a disruptive technology in one of the world’s largest industries.

Airless tires have been proposed and demonstrated for cars many times, but one company is showing off a sophisticated new version intended for bicycles. Is this the end for bike pumps, or are the ...

Fast forward into the 21 st century, and Michelin announced its X Tweel Turf airless tires would be available on commercial John Deere ZTrak mowers in 2014. Since then, the tire manufacturing ...