No Air Tires!

[GTNator]

If you think about it, having a tire than can never go flat is pretty cool. 100 years after we've been making cars, still if you drive over a nail, you get a flat tire no matter how expensive your car is. If/when this works, it'll be huge imo.


From wheel to tweel: GM partners with Michelin on airless tire

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/04/from-wheel-to-tweel-gm-partners-with-michelin-on-airless-tire.html

 

[iamdub]

It was only a matter of time. They're fairly common on mowers and even heavy equipment:

 

[Denali4181]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

 

[swathdiver]

Mine've never gone flat!

Then we upgraded to solid rubber:

Then we wanted more traction:

 

[Big Mama]

Saw a diy where a guy had a flat mower tire so he removed the schrader valve drilled holes in the tire filled it with expanding foam insulation and knocked off the foam that came through the holes. Top that

 

[89Suburban]

All nails and screws should be marked so they can be traced back to the owner.

 

[BG1988]

Mine've never gone flat!

Then we upgraded to solid rubber:



Then we wanted more traction:

broken wagon axle. would you like to try and fix it?

sorry you died from dysentery

 

[BG1988]

All nails and screws should be marked so they can be traced back to the owner.

they can trace it back to the owner just like the FBI can trace a 20 year old battery back to it's owner

Saw a diy where a guy had a flat mower tire so he removed the schrader valve drilled holes in the tire filled it with expanding foam insulation and knocked off the foam that came through the holes. Top that

mowers are not the same as cars

WEIGHT issue but you are better off making a tire from a tree log


it's renewable and is safe for the environment

 

[Rocket Man]

So when your tread wears out you have to replace the wheels AND tires? Seems expensive and wasteful.

 

[GTNator]

So when your tread wears out you have to replace the wheels AND tires? Seems expensive and wasteful.

I thought of that too, but maybe they don’t wear out. How cool would that be?


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[Rocket Man]

I thought of that too, but maybe they don’t wear out. How cool would that be?


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Yeah right...and you’ll never run out of gas either.

 

[swathdiver]

broken wagon axle. would you like to try and fix it?

Just need a good piece of seasoned oak! Lot simpler than what we have now! LOL

 

[GTNator]

Yeah right...and you’ll never run out of gas either.

Maybe not in our lifetime, but one day, yes that too! Solar powered electric motors, lol.

 

[Big Mama]

Saw a Bugatti needs 40k for new tires. They’re glued to the wheels for 250 mph drives to Lowe’s

 

[Big Mama]

they can trace it back to the owner just like the FBI can trace a 20 year old battery back to it's owner

mowers are not the same as cars

WEIGHT issue but you are better off making a tire from a tree log


it's renewable and is safe for the environment

Just tossing out cool fixes don’t try this at home....

 

[BG1988]

Maybe not in our lifetime, but one day, yes that too! Solar powered electric motors, lol.

we can make fuel in a lab no worry about running out ..

 

[omandave]

If you think about it, having a tire than can never go flat is pretty cool. 100 years after we've been making cars, still if you drive over a nail, you get a flat tire no matter how expensive your car is. If/when this works, it'll be huge imo.


From wheel to tweel: GM partners with Michelin on airless tire

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/04/from-wheel-to-tweel-gm-partners-with-michelin-on-airless-tire.html

I saw on a Volt Forum elswhere that they are supposedly going to use it on the Bolt EV first...:

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/06/04/michelin-uptis-2024-chevy-bolt-airless-tire-test/

 

[drakon543]

that video is quite old the concept has been around for a while and tested quite a bit. the original concept was for Humvees for military use. its late so im not going to try to find that video too but its pretty cool. the military one that was tested withstood a grenade enough that it was able to drive away.

 

[hcvone]

Got to say I have been driving for almost 50 years, I can count on one finger how many flat tires I have had in the last 25 years

 

[Tonyrodz]

Got to say I have been driving for almost 50 years, I can count on one finger how many flat tires I have had in the last 25 years

You're pretty lucky.