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It is no news that tires was invented by John Boyd Dunlop (5 February 1840 – 23 October 1921), a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon ; who wanted to make bicycle rides more comfortable for his son, just in time when automobiles was developed. Pneumatic tyres revolutionized the auto industry. Since then, a lot of technologies have gone into tyre manufacturing.

The latest technology in tire manufacturing is “airless tyres” as Michelin has introduced
prototype of a “puncture-proof tire system” that has no traditional sidewall and carries the vehicle’s load courtesy of a newly developed fiberglass material.

Michelin’s new Unique Puncture-Proof Tire System (Uptis) changes what we have known to be tires for a century, which is, the air inside.
Unlike past attempts at airless tires, Uptis functions the way other modern tires do and, Michelin claims, will provide a similar driving experience.

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No puncture


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No Blowouts

Unveiled at the company’s sustainable-mobility-focused Movin’On Summit in Montreal today, Uptis is a tire without a traditional sidewall that carries its load by the top, thanks to a new resin-embedded fiberglass material that Michelin has over 50 patents for.

Uptis is not Michelin’s first airless concept tire but it builds on the Vision concept (introduced at the 2017 summit meeting), which had four main components: it was airless, connected, could be 3D printed (or have a rechargeable tread pattern), and was 100 percent sustainable.
Michelin will test Uptis in the real world with General Motors. GM will put these airless tires on a fleet of its Chevrolet Bolt EV hatchbacks for road tests in Michigan later this year. Michelin and General Motors said Uptis-style tires could be found on production passenger vehicles as early as 2024.

The Uptis concept tires is light to replace air but strong to carry load. It will have a maximum speed of 130 miles per hour and a max load of 1102 pounds. We expect different versions with different specs and driving characteristics, and stable.

Theoretically, the tread life for the Uptis is the same as a regular tire, but due to absence of irregular tire pressure, it may last longer.

See Video>>>https://naijadriva./2019/06/10/michelin-rolls-out-airless-tires-general-motors-be-first-to-apply-it-by-2024/


What do you think?


lalasticlacla, marpol, Dominique, obinoscopy, Mynd44, ishilove

Nice one

Nonsense

Amazing!
Waiting for Dunlop's prototype

Hmm! Bulletproof tire

grayht:
Amazing!
Waiting for Dunlop's prototype

And Nigeria made the market unbearable for company like this to continue to trade and establishe. SMH

Wow. My worry is something would make it useless for use in Nigeria

OgaVoltron:
Wow. My worry is something would make it useless for use in Nigeria

Something like what? High temperature? (the tyre will have no issue with that).

OgaVoltron:
Wow. My worry is something would make it useless for use in Nigeria

Something like what? High temperature? (the tyre will have no issue with that).

lalasticlacla

Good innovation. This will make tires last longer.

But let it have a sidewall. I can't imagine children passing rope between the tires and tying it up, or the tyre picking up rope on the road that will entangle it.

Where is amuocha and lalasticlacla?

Wigetsolar:
Good innovation. This will make tires last longer.

But let it have a sidewall. I can't imagine children passing rope between the tires and tying it up, or the tyre picking up rope on the road that will entangle it.

Where is amuocha and lalasticlacla?

only that, when they hide ur IPhone inside the tire as a prank u will know haw far