Rolling out an airless tire technology is one thing. Selling it is another. Because while nonpneumatic tires may offer practicality from safety, reliability, sustainability and time management ...

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 ...

Airless tires: Why you'll want this game-changing technology It's nearly 2022 and we have phones that survive water damage, folding digital screens and so much more.

One of the major modern players in this space is Hankook Tire, which began actively developing non-pneumatic tires in 2010, later unveiling the iFlex — its first official airless tire — in 2012.

The project is far from Bridgestone's first foray into the airless tire space. The company has been focused on nonpneumatic tire technology for more than a decade, starting with an airless bicycle ...

While airless tires have been fitted to anything from wheelbarrows to bicycles and even to heavy equipment, this technology has yet to hit the road or become a production part for your vehicle.

The notion of airless tires is nothing new. In fact, the very earliest "tires" were just bands of leather or steel. Lately, though, the concept of the non-pneumatic tire, or NPT, has been making ...

AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NASDAQ: GT) announced it has developed and is testing a custom-engineered non-pneumatic (airless) tire (NPT) to ...

STORY: These airless tires were invented by NASA for roving around on the Moon but now an LA-based company is bringing the technology back down to Earth, in the hopes of making punctures a thing of ...

With Tweel, Michelin proved that the airless tire concept was more than viable. It works. And works well. Now, it's up to the industry overall to take the technology further—and make it even bigger.