{"id":127628,"date":"2021-09-13T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T02:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/michelins-new-airless-tires-just-hit-public-streets-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2021-09-13T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T02:22:26","slug":"michelins-new-airless-tires-just-hit-public-streets-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/michelins-new-airless-tires-just-hit-public-streets-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Michelin\u2019s New Airless Tires Just Hit Public Streets For the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tyc4Apyk2Rc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Puncture-proof tires have been an intriguing concept for many years. Tire maker, Michelin, has been <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/puncture-proof-tires-revealed-by-gm-and-michelin\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/puncture-proof-tires-revealed-by-gm-and-michelin\">working on it since 2005<\/a> and after more than a decade of work, it is now closer to reality. The company <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.michelin.com\/en\/news\/iaa-munich-michelins-view-of-tomorrows-mobility\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">took its puncture-proof tires for a spin<\/a> for the first time, on an electric vehicle, in line with the company\u2019s goals of being more sustainable in the future.<\/p>\n<p>More than three billion tires are produced annually around the world. Once beyond their lifetime, these tires usually end up in landfills. They are also at <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/kuwaits-tire-graveyard-with-over-7-million-dead-tires-poses-a-fire-hazard\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/kuwaits-tire-graveyard-with-over-7-million-dead-tires-poses-a-fire-hazard\">risk of catching fire<\/a> and releasing toxic fumes into the atmosphere. Like with other things manmade, one way of making tires more eco-friendly is to make them out of naturally occurring material. The second is to reduce instances that cause wear and tear and render the tires useless. French tire manufacturer, Michelin, is using both these approaches to make its tires more \u2018green\u2019 in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Through its Vision Concept, the company wants to make tires that are airless, rechargeable, connected, and sustainable. The Unique Punctureproof TIre System (UPTIS) is the airless tire that, thanks, to its unique design, does not require air filling and, never gets punctured either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puncture-proof tires have been an intriguing concept for many years. Tire maker, Michelin, has been working on it since 2005 and after more than a decade of work, it is now closer to reality. The company took its puncture-proof tires for a spin for the first time, on an electric vehicle, in line with the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}