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 ...

February 15, 2009 The Tweel is an non-pneumatic Tire/WhEEL combo which offers an idiot-proof, no-maintenance, easily-retreadable tire for consumers and the holy grail for the military - a tire that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The idea of an airless tire holds tremendous possibility, with obvious advantages over the common pneumatic version. No longer would a small puncture create a flat and halt the movement of a vehicle, ...

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 ...

Tire technology has advanced in leaps and bounds over my lifetime, and certainly over the last 15 years. Michelin have been trying to make Tweels a thing for as long as I can remember, and finally has ...

I’ve never made a point of getting a photo of myself with a piece of equipment like some autograph hound after a celebrity, but I found myself doing just that with Michelin’s X-Tweel for skid steers.