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 ...

Q: I heard about a new tire design coming our way from Michelin that could revolutionize the industry. There’s information about this on the Internet, and supposedly the ‘spoked’ tires, which take no ...

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 ...

DETROIT (Jan 10, 2005) — Michelin North America Inc. executives are touting the firm's “Tweel” non-pneumatic integrated tire/wheel unit as the next revolution in transportation mobility, although the ...

Michelin has announced that their new airless tires, the Michelin X Tweel, are going into production. The company has been showcasing their innovative design for a while now, and they are gearing up ...

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 ...

So, it begins: Michelin has started the production of their new Tweel airless tires. The Tweels will be produces in a new factory in South Carolina, but so far, the technology is only available for ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...