![]() In 2019, Michelin and General Motors made a splashy announcement of a joint research agreement as co-development partners for the new technology, planting a flag that stated their goal of making airless tires a “mainstream reality” on passenger vehicles as early as 2024. The company claims it is “the first airless mobility solution for passenger vehicles.” Most observers agree that Michelin is furthest along in the race to putting airless tires on a car for highway use, primarily with its UPTIS (Unique Puncture-Proof Tire System) design. Tire manufacturers say they’re working on new designs for automobiles, but nothing is definite in terms of product release dates. Trying to pinpoint even an approximate year when airless tires will be road-ready is seemingly as fuzzy as Mr. But as this work progresses, consumers and those who sell and service tires want to know when these new offerings will achieve mainstream use on cars and trucks. Multiple companies are developing – and even producing – non-pneumatic or “airless” tires. Now, we may be on the cusp of a game-changing breakthrough of that traditional pneumatic design. And since that time, numerous companies and their engineers have toiled to improve that design and its related components. John Boyd Dunlop is credited with inventing the first practical pneumatic tire in 1888 in Ireland, simply as an effort to give his young son a smoother bike ride over rough pavements. ![]()
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