缩小刹车距离、减小滚动阻力和噪音，改进抓地力、延长轮胎寿命和提高其它部位的性能是米其林一贯的承诺，为此米其林集团不断地探寻新结构和新材料，并始终如一地在推进轮胎性能的改进。但是米其林的使命也包括跳出轮胎的范围去寻求改善移动性的方案 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The Tweel is an airless tire design concept developed by the French tire company Michelin. Its significant advantage over pneumatic tires is that the Tweel does not use a bladder full of compressed ...

There’s never a good time for a flat tire, but there are some times that are much worse than others. A sudden flat when you’re far off in the boonies on unstable, rocky, or swampy ground can be ...

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.

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.

What's a future car without a future tire? Well, Michelin's got us covered with a combination wheel and tire that doesn't use air, making it impossible to go flat. The "Tweel" uses flexible ...