Michelin has showcased a potentially disruptive technology with significant ramifications for the future for mobility: an airless, integrated tyre and wheel combination dubbed the TWEEL (i.e.

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 ...

Today Michelin dedicated a new South Carolina factory to making the Tweel; a "tire/wheel" that uses flexible spindles where a conventional tire holds air. The Tweel can never go flat and never be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Developed in the US at the company’s technology centre in Greenville, the non-pneumatic Tweel is said to have the potential to transform the automotive, military, construction and personal mobility ...

GREENVILLE, S.C.—"Equipment Today" magazine has named the Michelin Tweel non-pneumatic tire/wheel one its Contractors' Top New Products for 2013. Equipment Today—a monthly magazine published by Cygnus ...

The first commercially available tyre and tube as a single unit are finally here, and you’d be excused if you thought it was strange that we invented autonomous vehicles before we came up with this ...

AKRON — For the record, Michelin North America Inc.'s Steve Cron isn't a big fan of the name given to the product that has defined much of his 30-year career in the tire industry. That product is the ...

Safe Shop Tools Inc has introduced the Tweel Handler 2000, a versatile tool that allows truck mechanics to remove, install, elevate, rotate, and transport single tire-and-wheel assemblies. The word ...