February 15, 2009 The Tweel is an non-pneumatic Tire/WhEEL combo which offers an idiot-proof, no-maintenance, easily-retreadable tire for consumers and the holy grail for the military - a tire that ...

The tweel (a portmanteau of tire and wheel) has been a concept in the tire industry for some time now. If you're not familiar with that term, it refers to an airless tire. Michelin has been developing ...

When Tim Rhyne sat down with fellow Michelin engineer Steve Cron over lunch in the late 1990s, they didn't set out to reinvent the wheel. Tasked with defining the qualities of a pneumatic tire, the ...

The John Deere Z740R ZTrak zero-turn mower has a lot going for it: a mowing deck up to 60 inches, a 10 mph top speed and a 23.5-horsepower V-twin engine. That bad boy's got a four-year, thousand-hour ...

The factory that Michelin North America dedicated today in the Greenville County community of Piedmont isn't anything like the other nine factories it has opened in South Carolina since 1975. The ...

Because of a nail, a tire was lost. Because of a bad spare, Patrick Glenn's meeting was lost. "Both tires are flat. And we're waiting for someone to come pick us up," said Glenn. But as CBS News ...

Combining a tire and wheel into a single airless 'tweel' has proven to be a popular concept, although it still hasn't gone mainstream. Michelin is the latest company to announce a production tweel, ...

It started as a "what if," an idea in ink on a napkin. But what it's become is revolutionary. With Tweel, Michelin took nonpneumatic tires from concept to prototype to practical. It brought to the ...

I’ve never made a point of getting a photo of myself with a piece of equipment like some autograph hound after a celebrity, but I found myself doing just that with Michelin’s X-Tweel for skid steers.

Michelin has showcased a potentially disruptive technology with significant ramifications for the future for mobility: an airless, integrated tyre and wheel combination dubbed the TWEEL (i.e.

The Tweel (a portmanteau of tire and wheel) has been a concept in the tire industry for some time now. If you're not familiar with that term, it refers to an airless tire. Michelin has been developing ...