SALT LAKE CITY — Manufacturers are working to perfect airless tires in hopes of making flats a thing of the past. Airless tires could improve road safety and benefit the environment, according to ...

What is the best use of a used tire? Make tires out of it, of course. Remember the crumb rubber PPC experiment by the Garage 54 team from Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia, a few weeks ago? They took the ...

Michelin has been working with General Motors to develop airless tires that will be sold on a next-generation Chevrolet Bolt electric car, expected to go on sale in the next few years, a Michelin ...

Michelin has been testing airless tires for years with an eye toward EV use. While they still aren't ready for production, executives believe they could be a good fit for autonomous vehicles and law ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: These airless tires were invented by NASA for roving around on the Moon but now an LA-based company is bringing the ...

Airless tires aren't ready for production cars, but European police are eyeing them because they can't be shot out during car chases, a Michelin executive said in a recent interview with The Drive.

GM is keeping a closer eye on EV battery issues, Michelin airless tires get tested in vans. Rivian makes progress in its production ramp. And we drive Rolls-Royce’s first electric car and dig into its ...

Michelin and other tire makers have long been expounding the virtues of airless tires that can run over just about any obstacle without being punctured. So, why aren’t they on the road yet? To find ...

With Tweel, Michelin took nonpneumatic tires from concept to prototype to practical. It brought to the market a very real, very relevant airless tire that has just about every other tire maker ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Makers of airless tires such as Japan's Bridgestone Corp. hope driverless cars will herald a breakthrough for their niche technology, which is more than a decade old but ...

The idea of an airless tire holds tremendous possibility, with obvious advantages over the common pneumatic version. No longer would a small puncture create a flat and halt the movement of a vehicle, ...