Airless tires have been “a few years away” from production for decades now. They’re one of the automotive version of vaporware (at least those meant for passenger vehicles), always on the ...
It’s Been A Long Innings For The Pneumatic Tire John Dunlop’s first pneumatic tyre, built for a bicycle ... The vast majority of airless designs follow a similar theme. An outer ring is ...
Airless tires have been under development for over a decade. Now that EVs have emphasized the need for sustainable transport, could it finally be their time?
Airless tyres are not to be confused with run-flat tyres. These are air-filled tyres specifically designed with extra sidewall strengthening that makes them capable of driving for around 50 miles ...
Light Fixtures San Francisco-based Gantri 3D prints sustainable table lights in original designs created by independent ...
What is taking so long for airless tires to hit the shelves? It's one thing to run around the lunar surface for a couple of miles and a few hours. Paul Eisenstein: Here on Earth, it is much more ...
Imagine never having to worry about a flat tire again. Goodyear's Non-Pneumatic Tire (NPT) is making that a reality. These innovative tires don't rely on compressed air to maintain their shape ...
Press event to dedicate Michelin's newest manufacturing facility in Piedmont, S.C., that will make the Tweel tire - an airless radial tire that never goes flat - for wide commercial use in the ...
Increase in demand for maintenance-free tires and surge in adoption of all-terrain and military vehicles drive the growth of the global airless tire market. WILMINGTON, NEW CASTLE, DE, UNITED ...
Standard stuff. What's remarkable, though, is the car is sitting on four airless tyres - made by Goodyear, the US manufacturer. Special plastic spokes, support a thin, reinforced rubber tread.
The Uptis airless tyre has been demonstrated in public for the first time – and its maker, Michelin, says passengers in an Uptis-equipped car couldn’t tell the difference between its ...