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.

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.

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 ...

Now, Michelin bosses told The Drive that they’ve tested their Uptis airless tires up to 130 mph with law enforcement in mind after successful applications of the technology in utility vehicles ...

Michelin will continue testing its Uptis range of airless tires by fitting them to 40 vans owned by French postal service La Poste. The brand has already started testing the prototype tire ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...