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- Never again a flat tire with air-free bicycle tiresCycling is a great way of transportation, but the design of a bicycle has one major flaw: inflated tires. While they absorb bumps in…
- Vision: a 3D printed, customisable, biodegradable, airless car tireNo more flat tires, no more changing summer tires when it becomes winter, and a large reduction in waste material in the tire industry.…
- Super Morphing Tire DesignA new tire concept called Maxplo by Kumho could eliminate the need to change your tires seasonally as Maxplo is designed to alter its shape…
- Tire VeneerTire Veneer is the name of recycled rubber veneer made from tires. Since tires wear out relatively fast, recycling tires began some time ago as re-treading, which is the retention of the tire interior and application of new tread to the exterior. In the retreading process, the old tread is removed by grinding and the resulting dust is termed "buffings".
- Driving towards a future with cleaner air with moss filled tiresWith electric cars becoming more popular, driving becomes more sustainable. The tire manufacturing Goodyear wants to add to that even more by introducing a…
- Composite airless car tires in five yearsWithin five years, cars will feature airless tires, if it were up to Michelin and GM. The companies recently unveiled their prototype, called Uptis.…
- Capturing tire particlesThe Tyre Collective, consisting of students from the Innovation Design Engineering programme of the Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art in…
- The world’s first modular bicycle tire systemNorwegian brand reTyre offers a modular bicycle tire system with integrated zip-on technology that allows you to adapt your tire thread. The system consists…
- Superelastic tire is suitable for both Earth and MarsEngineers and researchers are working hard to prepare us for life in space. Innovators at NASA’s Glenn Research centre reinvented the wheel by creating…
- Riding on space-approved flat-free tiresThe SMART Tire Company (STC), part of the FedTech NASA Startup Program, aims to make flat-free tires, originally developed for space travel, commercially available…
- Mars-approved tires for your bikeUS-based SMART Tire Company developed the first ‘space-age alloy’ bike tire that is available for commercial use later this year. The so-called METL tire…
- A self-regenerating concept tireTire company Goodyear developed a new concept tire called reCharge that can adapt and change to meet individual mobility needs. The concept focuses on…
- The world’s first carbon neutral bike tireNorwegian company reTyre developed what they say is the world’s first carbon neutral bicycle tire, made from 100 per cent reclaimed materials. In 2019,…
- Products made from tire wasteUK start-up The Tyre Collective teamed up with various designers and artists to explore how tire particles that come off car tires as they…
- Asphalt made with recycled tire wasteUK construction materials company Tarmac developed a new rubberised asphalt using recycled waste tires. Each year, 40 million waste tires become available in the…
- More sustainable asphalt made from recycled tires and organic waxAna María Rodríguez Alloza, a researcher from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), developed a new type of asphalt that could be considered more ecological,…
- Self-healing rubber could mean the end of flat tiresHow often has it happened to you that ride over a nail or other sharp object, and your tire goes flat? No matter if…
- Self-regenerating pavement made of recycled tiresDesigner Israel Antonio Briseño Carmona of Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila developed a rubber pavement made of recycled tires that regenerates itself using only water.…
- A bicycle bag made of oil from recycled tiresGerman brand Pinqponq developed a bicycle bag with a reduced CO2 footprint, as it is made of polyamide made from pyrolysis oil from tire…
