The wooden tyre was the best in my old days.

How expensive are they? YES

Pipe dream. There’s no way in hell that design will last 85,000 miles

"It is ready for production and commercial use" They have kept saying this for the past 20 years!!!

We don't need an airless tyre we need airless politicians

Airless basketballs, airless tires, next up: airless air

Oldsmobile in the 70's had a composite rim instead of steel, which heat and bumps deformed and cracked them creating an actual leak on the tubeless tire..it was an item ahead of it's time

If they aren't lying and production costs are actually slightly higher by like $4. It's only because the engineers had to make a new model. Once the model is made it's just injected again. So the price increase is so small it wouldn't matter and it would definitely not affect the market value. However they say that so they can charge you a lot more

"Looks like Michelan addressed most of the issues, and they'll soon be on the market." Let me guess; the issue they _didn't_ address was the price.

They’re widely used on heavy construction equipment, lawn mowers, and landfill machinery. Just not cars. They’re also really expensive, that’s why they’re not widely used.

I just see an issue with snow or water getting in the middle and driving in those conditions can alter the way the tire flexes. As well as driving fast and turning. Without a sidewall that’s filled with air, that may be a hazard in those scenarios

Forget the cost, these things are LOUD! The road noise you experience with these on is close to if not as loud as some exhausts

A big problem is the tread. A lot of tires need to be replaced because the tread wears out. Most people see these and think they would never had to replace a tire again, but because of the tread they will end up replacing a lot of tires anyway. Because the airless tires use more material they will cost more and could generate even more waste/pollution.

So stabbing my neighbours tyre will soon be completely pointless!

They keep trying to get a balance between deformation and shock absorption -- between "too soft and gets bent out of shape easily" and "too firm and gives you a bumpy ride"

Just to give you an idea of price: A Air less tire for an a ATV/UTV start at $799 each..

Did they solve the major issue of falling APART at high speeds 😮😮😮

Dont forget about load distribution, air pneumatic tyres distribute the load along the entire wheel with the pressurized air while the airless tyre would trasfer it directly. This would greatly reduce the lifespan of the wheel itself.

They make these for commercial lawn mowers and they are great and designed to last alot longer. My biggest concern after using them for a while would definitely be how smooth the ride and if the ridges that make the tire airless get damaged it can ruin the whole tire. They mower ones are also really expensive. Can only imagine how much ones for a car would cost.

Michelin: we rolling out airless tires boys German TÜV: hold my beer, I'm about to ruin everyone's hopes and dreams

Definitely a head ache for police when chasing criminals.

Most important reason… tire manufacturers will lose money from tire replacements

I saw some of these on a zero turn yesterday at a garden center. I remember seeing these as a concept years ago and had no idea they started being produced. I thought it was neat to see them in person for a real use case and not just a staged display

To solve or partially address airless tire defects, you can simply apportion some sections of the tire to contain air. This would reduce some problems easily.

The most important problems to be solved when engineering tires is safety, handling, cost, ability to handle inclement weather and rough terrain, and longevity. Flats are not a serious problem and it was solved a 100 years ago - you carry a spare. I have been driving for over 50 years and won't buy a vehicle that doesn't have a spare. I think I have had maybe 4 flats, mostly when I was young. So I get a flat maybe once every 13-15 years, change the tire, and off I go.

Balance is a problem if mud gets in the open sidewall.

Criminals with cars:

I think these would be great for an off-road user. I’ve been thinking about getting some from my quad if I can. If I can get about the same thread surface area as an air down tire with an aggressive tread pattern I would absolutely get these. The biggest problem I see is that they would need to be replaced after the tread is gone however, from mostly off-road use that won’t be an issue.

"you can't get a flat tire with these tires but you can't go over 50mph without life threatening consequence"😂

Because the constant flexing will wear out the rubber until it cracks/snaps and rocks and other debris will get in between and rip them to pieces.😅

Another bad thing about it is that you can't put weight on it so you can't pull trailers

A tyre company that rates restaurants 🙏🏻

So when it comes time for a new tire you have to buy an entire wheel

I had these on my John Deere mower Since 2015 and I wouldn’t put them on my car until they deal with the shock absorption issue. But they are excellent for landscaping

Airless tires work well off road at low speeds. I believe the issues are impact force, lateral force and centripetal force at highway speed. Another issue could be turbulence creating drag and reducing fuel mileage

Air is very important for our rapid movement

I’ll buy a set after them run them in NASCAR.

A tire with air not only would be cheaper to manufacture, but it would offer superior performance. I wonder if Michelin might want to explore that avenue.

Had the airless tires on the zero turn mowers when I worked for this landscaping company.. they were the greatest thing ever made it very easy to hop curbs

Less rubber ,more to recycle. Less price say .100. 00 per tire. Means you can clean up America. Thank you, so much for doing your part. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Last time Michelin tried to reinvent the wheel with their PAX tire system on the Honda Odyssey it resulted in lots of angry customers, extremely limited availability, high replacement costs, poor wear and performance, lawsuits, and finally a regular tire option.

I remember seeing an early variation of this in 1999 (im getting old). I've always thought about since, especially now that I'm an adult and have to deal with flat tires.

This actually his best put together response yet

I have these Michelin tires on my lawn mowers. For a pair of 20” tires it’s $1,100 and for my 24” tires, they’re $750 each so $1,500 for a pair. They’re good for mowers but not sure how well they’ll be on a car.

In conclusion, we haven't invented anything yet.

Mud: "I'm about to end this man's whole career"💀

“Reducing rubber waste” yet those tires still need to go somewhere after being used up 😂

I've seen these on construction vehicles like front end loaders and small cranes. The fiber spokes were alot thicker and instead of one set radiating out, they had a few that would criss-cross each other. It makes sense to use such tires for these environments. I saw in the construction zones lots of debri like nails what would puncture a tire.

Only useful as an emergency spare. Cannot be used as a touring or performance tyre. Gas milage will also decrease, rolling resistance looks to probably be much higher. Best to be used in poor street quality situations or as an emergency spare, or on an offroad or construction vehicles.

In local old news paper archives it use to be a competition of air tires vs all rubber. Seeing how my shopping cart works I see why air tires won. It’s just too noisy the rubber tires. These look like it can be different though .

At work we have a set on a 9000 pound Gradall. They were about 15000 dollars each. A regular air up tire of the same size is a little less than 1000 dollars each. A foam filled tire is about 3000 dollars each.

More rolling resistance too I would imagine, at least based off the ones in the video. That means you’ll burn through fuel quicker than normal because of the extra drag.

These haven’t been shown to be better in many of the ways that matter like efficient rolling resistance (They tend to add rolling resistance, although doing so while adding traction by increasing the contact point space between the wheel and the road / ground surface, sort of acting like a tank tread) Because they obviously don’t have air inside them and traditional tire sidewalls that allow for air pressure to push against said sidewalls to add strength, causing a lack of structural and efficient circularity rigidity to the tire. These tire / wheel systems would likely be good in zero or low atmospheric conditions with environments of lesser gravity, like the Moon and Mars, where the tread deforming could add traction and allow it to deform over rocks and other potential debris and obstacles. Unlike the solid metal wheels on current rovers like Curiosity and Perseverance, which have been shown to rip off sections that are stress hardened over time and then made hard and brittle after time of ware and tear, as well as cycles of temperature extremes going in and outside of direct sunlight. Whereas, these tires could possibly retain their pliability. Granted, they would have to be made out of a substance that remains “rubbery” at the high and low temperature extremes experienced on the surface of the Moon and Mars, when traditional sunset would place them in or out of direct hot sunlight and very cold shadow (causing extreme variability in temperatures) and since having air pressure in tires surrounded by little to no atmosphere, is basically impossible due to little to no atmospheric pressure pushing against it, and causing for unintended expansion of the tire pressure in standard tires makes them unfit for these off Earth applications. It could possibly also allow for the regolith to pass through the connection struts of the tire, possibly allowing for a paddling effect in deep and loose sandy regolith. Possibly even utilizing variable pockets of air in bladders in the support strut structure of the tire that can be adjusted by removing or adding air in these struts to add a circular rigidity under certain circumstances and conditions, allowing for variable deformity of the tires for various conditions. There is still a lot to study and engineer / iteratively redesign and update with these, especially to use them in space, on the surface of the Moon or Mars and hopefully on Earth as well, despite those environments having drastically different engineering requirements and challenges.

If you drive fast and turn fast the tire rips

Damn, they did it, they reinvented the wheel.

Honestly the main resion is that u change a tire more from lose of tire grips instead of punchers.. fix that first please and tks🙏 😅

The whole point, which is to reduce waste rubber, isn't achievable this way. Because eventually the tyre profile will run flat anyway, whether the tyre punctures or not, which doesn't happen very often anyway. So by using the extra material used in the airless tyre you will, in the end, still produce more waste than with the conventional tyres.

They also will need to be totally clean of any dirt build up or snow-ice build up within those ribs- otherwise the entire balance of the wheel will be off, and it will feel very unstable at higher speeds.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”

Next the retail space will invent the cashless wallet and invisible best friend which comes standard with an invisible vacation.

then the michelin man shows up, and he's not smiling

The gas inside the tube effectively distributes the pressure throughout the tire. That's critical.

Well now it will be difficult to catch thieves or fugitives running on car....

These haven’t been rolled out because Michelin bought the patent years ago and sat on it. The design is too long lasting, so Michelin needed time to reduce product lifetime. In other words, they’re rolling out a crappier design for profit.

"we will have airless tires in a year or so" - My highschool teacher in 1999

I was literally thinking about making a tyre exactly like this yesterday

Why we dont use airless tires? Namely due to the fact that airless tires will absolutely destroy fuel economy. The 25 mile per gallon vehicle now gets only 12 miles per gallon. Unless said tires are made more solid. Then you'll feel every bump in the road, and if you drive where I do, you might get a free spinal realignment. No thanks.

Sooo instead of replacing the tyre, i need a new wheel also?

They will make it much harder to stop criminals during high speed chases.

Bro really reinvented the wheel

What about shtt accumulation every 2nd day between those gaps making it rock hard

When tires where invented they were built to last forever. Company said well we need to make them so they can fall apart and we can sale more! Greed runs everything in this world!! True story

Airless tires - Look inside - Air

Plus, in the event of a major chase, police wouldn't be able to use their spike strips to safely stop the vehicle. They would have to resort to other, potentially more dangerous, methods to stop the vehicle, such as a pit maneuver.

Getting away from the police is getting better 😂

I guess the police spike strip isnt going to work on these tires

My jobsite is going to love this more than the local tire shop. I wonder if suspension /cost is worth it. I swear people be too vengful in my area.

Those wouldn't work around here in Upstate New york. During the winter the spaces between those tweel segments would get filled up with ice and snow. The tire would become unbalanced and give an uneven bumpy ride adding to the potential of losing control on snowy and icy roads.

Tires companies make so much money on the tires we have already. These will never be released to the public even after they fix the issues.

Some bank robbers gonna use that to counter spike strips

"You've probably seen a video on this before, haven't you?" No, no I haven't

What about mud, gravel, and snow inside the chambers. Seems like tire you would put on your pavement princess down south. Not sure they will catch on everywhere.

Glass fibre reinforced plastic, aka fiberglass.

More power of the engine will be applied, the mileage will be less..... As a result the cost will be much higher

Not to mention, when you wake up in the morning, and all your wheels are gone!

Rest assured, the durability will be only slightly better than compared to air tires, just as much that customers are willing to pay the additional price. The development of this tire took two years, to make sure durability does not exceed expectations it took another two years :)

The rim will bend on a hard impact

Nothing is as springy as a pneumatic tire. To explain, the contact patch it flat. As the tire spins, the forwards portion compresses and the rearward portion springs back. Nothing springs back quite like nitrogen. This is very important for driving performance. Yes, they go flat, but by far pneumatic tires drive the best.

French postal services have been testing them on their cars in collaboration with Michelin.

I want a flying car at this point ✝️

Becouse if you run from the cops they cant deploy spike strips to stop you.

Best video I've seen in a long time. Exceptionally well written story. I like the way they hit us with an armgument, then issue, then potential solution, why this novel idea sounds good but just has too many negarives (eg, deformations). Then they hit u with "hey guess what, Michelin has fixed most of these issues". Michelin will have it out later this year. Thàt creates excitement.

Back in my day we use cans for tires

Dirt, mud and stones will be between the rubber chambers. So the wheel will be out of balance, unless you clean out the tire structure (chambers) every day.

They also don’t handle nearly as well. They can’t hold up to cornering as well because they don’t have the side wall of a regular tire.

You gotta remember too, car chases would be difficult since even if they lay the spikes or shoot the tires, theyll keep goim

We need these types of tires for mountain biking

'Available later this year' is something we've heard for a long long time about these airless tires

Winter months would be brutal, ice and snow would pack those openings.

Super! One less thing to worry about when driving!