{"id":91703,"date":"2019-06-06T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T20:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/michelin-and-gm-reinvent-the-wheel-with-airless-tire-thats-totally-puncture-proof"},"modified":"2019-06-06T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T20:22:27","slug":"michelin-and-gm-reinvent-the-wheel-with-airless-tire-thats-totally-puncture-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/michelin-and-gm-reinvent-the-wheel-with-airless-tire-thats-totally-puncture-proof","title":{"rendered":"Michelin and GM Reinvent The Wheel With Airless Tire That\u2019s Totally \u2018Puncture Proof\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/michelin-and-gm-reinvent-the-wheel-with-airless-tire-thats-totally-puncture-proof2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michelin and General Motors have teamed up to literally reinvent the wheel with a new generation of high-tech airless tires.<\/p>\n<p>The automotive companies\u2019 Uptis (Unique Puncture-proof Tire System) prototype grabbed headlines after it was presented at the Movin\u2019On Summit on sustainable mobility in Montreal this week.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t have a traditional sidewall and carries a load by the top via a resin-embedded fiberglass material that Michelin already has 50 patents for, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/a27728995\/michelin-airless-tire-uptis\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Car and Driver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxim.com\/gear\/michelin-and-gm-debut-uptis-2019-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelin and General Motors have teamed up to literally reinvent the wheel with a new generation of high-tech airless tires. The automotive companies\u2019 Uptis (Unique Puncture-proof Tire System) prototype grabbed headlines after it was presented at the Movin\u2019On Summit on sustainable mobility in Montreal this week. It doesn\u2019t have a traditional sidewall and carries a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91703","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}