Michelin's new Unique Puncture-Proof Tire System (Uptis) does away with one of the defining aspects of tires as we've known them for more than 100 years: the air inside. Unlike past attempts at ...

The Michelin Uptis airless tires elicit a similar response. The sidewalls are concave rather than convex. Weird! You can see through them. Weirder! More practically, they are designed to eliminate ...

The Uptis is a production-ready version of the Tweel system which Michelin unveiled in 2005. Michelin announced a new US$50 million plant in 2014 for producing airless tires.

Michelin’s new Uptis design is slated to hit the streets in 2024. Research and development has led to significant differences in its design compared to the earlier Tweel project. Speed has been ...

How? By taking the air out of tires altogether. [Photo: Steve Fecht/courtesy General Motors] Michelin is developing a tire called the Uptis (or Unique Puncture-proof Tire System), which is a tire ...

The automaker is teaming with Michelin and this week introduced the Michelin Uptis prototype at the Movin' On Summit for sustainability in Montreal. Uptis stands for Unique Puncture-proof Tire ...

The Uptis builds on what Michelin learned creating the Tweel, which went on sale about five years ago and is available for use on non-roadgoing-vehicles like skid-loaders, lawn mowers and ATVs.

Well, just right there, untapped, and Michelin and other industry leaders know this. But it’s the Uptis that seems to be the most promising in meeting this need. Since their development in the ...

Michelin took members of the public out to experience what turned out to be a pretty standard driving experience on the Uptis tires Michelin has teamed up with GM to design and start selling an ...

Michelin’s prototype airless tire line, Uptis (Unique Puncture-proof Tire System), may have been conceived to have less impact on the environment, but as the name origin suggests it has other ...

Michelin have been trying to make Tweels a thing for as long as I can remember, and finally has GM on its side to develop a production-ready Tweel-based "Uptis" tire. Uptis gets its name as a ...

In 2019, Michelin introduced the Uptis (shown above) to take tires into their next phase of evolution. The Uptis is 3-D printed and uses recycled and biodegradable materials — including what ...