Although shown on this 2019 Chevy Bolt EV, the goal is for Michelin’s airless tires (the Uptis name is not set in stone) to show up on some future General Motors product “no sooner than 2024.” ...

Michelin envisions using the composite with traditional wheels, and it sees major benefits over standard tires. Because the Uptis tire uses no air, there is no risk of a flat or blowout. Michelin ...

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.

MONTREAL — Looking not unlike a lushly blue life form on James Cameron’s cinematic world of Pandora, the prototype of Michelin’s Visionary concept tire glowingly held center stage on June 14 ...

But of course, Michelin isn’t in the air business; it’s in the tire business. Just because its Uptis tires can’t leak doesn’t mean they won’t still wear out.

Michelin and General Motors presented a new generation of airless wheel technology for passenger vehicles — the Michelin Uptis (or Unique Puncture-proof Tire System) prototype — at the Movin ...

The VISION, a new tire-wheel combination from Michelin, means the clean car of the future can have clean tires, as well. ... This New Tire Has No Air And Is 3D Printed From Biodegradable Materials.

I didn't see the tire in action, but according to Gettys, the Vision also has a reloadable tread band that can also be 3D printed. In Michelin's concept for the future, you can go to a gas or ...

Michelin and GM Working on Airless Tire for Next-Gen Bolt, Report Says The dream of airless tires has been around for decades now, and it's easy to see why. Airless tires mean no flat tires and no ...

Yes, Tweel has come a long way in 10 years of manufacturing. The Tweel concept really took root in 1997 when Tweel co-inventors Steve Cron and Tim Rhyne got a greenlight from Michelin to work in their ...

That includes the tires, which Cyrille Roget, Michelin’s scientific and innovation communication director, says isn’t a tire anymore—it’s a wheel. It’s round, but there is no air ...