Why Airless Tires Are So Tricky
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 เม.ย. 2024
- These ties have NO AIR in them. They were created by Michelin to stop flat tires and the large amount of resulting rubber waste. They work by combining an aluminum wheel and an outer structure made from a flexible but strong material called glass fiber reinforced plastic
But Michelin and others, including NASA, have been working on airless tires for years… so why don’t we have them yet??
Well, turns out air is really good at dealing with the heat and pressure that builds up in the rubber as your tires get repeatedly compressed and decompressed under the weight of the car. A tire fully inflated with air also deforms less, making it more efficient for your engine to rotate it.
A stable, cool, and efficient airless tire is really tricky! But Michelin says they should be available for purchase by the end of this year.
We’ll see! I’d love to never get another flat tire.
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The Big Air lobbyists will never allow this to happen.
O'Hare will make sure it stays this way
@@witchcraftanditsconsequenc4280 “More nails on the streets, the more people will need.” O’hare
You mean, Tony Hawk?
Big bicycle pump
You say that until you actually ride with non pneumatic tires, they have been a thing for a long time. They just have poor ride quality for anything above, like 15 miles per hour.
They're gonna monopolize air
The lorax
Have “They” not already in a sense? Or am I misunderstanding your meaning?
They allready have. My local Casey’s used to have a free air thing, now they removed it and put in one that you have to pay outrageous prices for a small electric motor to pressurizer air, witch doesn’t take even a cent to run, just to fill up their car tire. F**king monopoly. And the worst thing is that it’s not my local Casey’s decision, It’s the corporates…
@@external316 BP is the only place with free air anymore
@@redstonefirewizard6560lol
>airless tires
>looks inside
>air
lmao
Yes, I would need to see them tested in a vacuum to believe it. 😃
> empty cup
> look inside
> there is air, but it does not obey cup
> put lid on cup, sealing it
> look inside
> air obeys cup, is now cup of air
> "airless" tire
> look inside
> has air inside, but it does not obey tire
> cannot be empty tire as it cannot be sealed like a cup
> settle on airless tire
the logic checks out
looks inside: dirt
@@empebeeI mean it would be good advert to partner with NASA
All the while we're trying to ignore Cleo has been fighting a horde of dandelions just before the recording
💀😂
She obviously won, and made a coat from their lifeless corpses
She kinda looks like a hot sea urchin
The fluffy sweater is appropriate for airless tire story.❤😂
good eye
I was at a event for wheelchair users yesterday where these wheels were they showed these wheels for both manual as electric wheelchair. You have no idea how exited my wife got at never being stranded again with a flat tire
That is an amazing implementation of this technology! I wish you both well.❤
I too use a wheelchair from being paralyzed at T10 T11. What was the name of this event? I’d very much like to go to the next one.
@@Handles_are_good_for_holding Hi. The event was called "Veine Dagen" and was in The Netherlands. Unfortunately, the demonstration was by one of the companies that manage wheelchairs for the goverment (long story) so i cant give you the producer of the tires. It was shown in combination with " Loop Wheels" and a Quickie wheelchair
That's something i never thought about. It has to be one of the best uses for airless tires
My mom’s wheelchair always had solid tires, but for those who previously had air tires, this sounds fantastic.
Noise is also an issue with these tires from what ive heard. Its just hard to make an airless tires that can compete on all the important metrics. Hopefully we'll get there though
Doubfull...
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@@captain_context9991 let's hope they have a breakthrough
@@idehenebenezernah i'd win
@@idehenebenezer God is a myhtical being
I hope this doesnt end up being a rushed product that leads to airless tires being rejected again for another decade or more
The reveal was in 2021 for the Munich Auto, they are currently tested by DHL (the delivery company) in Singapore, and if they hit the market in 2024 (they have a contract with GM (General Motors) to outfit new vehicles), it means they are already in production, which in turn means they got past EU regulations, which is no easy task. There's good hope it's a good product.
@@k.v.7681 i mean, airless tires will be a huge step towards safer and cheaper tires, and from these people will likely start looking for new materials to make airless tires from, that or we'll just start moving away from cars in general once self driving technology inevitably overtakes what we have now
It's good to see the reason WHY these miracle technologies never reach massive production scale. Mostly people just reporter the hype and never the second part of why the hype didn't become reality.
Yeah. Wouldn’t the tread still wear out and need to be replaced???
@@hopetemple1616some other guy in this comment section (its a reply to another) said that they can be rethreaded via 3d printing or other ways
Yeah I'm still waiting on the "plastic eating worms" they hypesters told us about 20 years ago 😒
the neighbor kids filling it with rocks
We've had these for forever now. They tested them on HMMWV's while I was deployed to Afghanistan. They work pretty well on sand, but they wear unevenly and too quickly on pavement. They also give a harder ride, which is hard on your vehicle's suspension. Great concept, but not all the way there yet.
it's because it's not the same product at all here it's made by Michelin the world leader in tires making
@@ommsterlitz1805the Army partnered with Michelin for the program. It’s just been a while since then so the technology has (hopefully) advanced.
I mean the suspension will be fine, it just won't be very pleasant to drive.
Maybe they managed to improve them and reduce some of the downsides in these years.
This won’t be an improvement. Everything balances itself out. This may be better in one area but it will have issues in other areas.
Another huge issue for tires is that they wear down and eventually don’t get enough traction to maintain a safe braking distance, hopefully this is accounted for too. 🤞🏼
Michelin have a few ways of dealing with this, one is a process of retreading via replacement or via additive 3d printing.
Additionally these treads do last a very decent amount of time, the UPTIS is seen currently on the market and the TWEEL is currently for agriculture and non road use. Both have usable mileage far exceeding normal tyres.
I got to touch and feel these recently at the Michelin museum!
@@Sadistichippo That’s pretty awesome to hear, thank you for letting me
know this :)
Of course they have a way of dealing with it. They're going to want to keep selling you new tires. 😅
@@Sadistichippo regular non road usage tires have mileage far exceeding regular tires... Not an accurate comparable.
my guy, thats all tires. They didn't say "tires you will never need to replace" they said "airless tires, immune to puncture"
you will still have to replace or retread them every so often because things break down with use.
don't confuse someone saying they like pancakes with them hating waffles.
So you're telling me the Michelin man is no longer an airhead? 😭
I have airless on my Scooter. Before that I got flats every few months. Best decision to switch.
Aren't there rocks or other junk that get in there?
@@Dindonmasker I just checked a few days ago, after using it for 1-1.5 years. A few pebbles, one glass shard embedded, nothing serious
@@Lelliannayeah. If airless tires work well on scooters, it's gonna work even better wonders on even-wheeled vehicles.
They're freaking heavy. maximum distance drops from like 25 to 15 km, so battery struggles. Ill stick to the regular tires
@@dren4k i havent noticed battery problems since the tire change, losing air pressure and gettings flats caused worse issues. My battery degraded a bit over time, but its a 3 year old device at this point.
The worst thing i can say about airless is that riding is harder on my hands.
Most likely, the best solution here is to only use airless tires as an emergency tire only. Like in the event of getting a flat tire.
I like this idea
@@anshumanmahanta9399 Yeah, it wouldn't make sense to use it regularly but if it's just used to get you to a repair shop then it will last a long time. It's the perfect spare tire.
Getaway cars are gonna be immune to police stingers now 😂😂
Thank you! How is no one talking about this
Shut up and take my money
Agreed, but don't buy the first gen; let them work out the kinks first 😂
No one can take my money.I have none
Ive been hearing the same story about "airless tires being on the market by the end of the year" for like 10 years
Also air is really great in dealing with impacts like pot holes which was a big problem for previous airless tires to deal with
Haven't these clips been circulating for like 8 or 10 years now?
At least
Did you even watch the video? She said that.
@@greensteve9307 Yeah and I'll believe this whenever it's launched. They've been talking about these tires for so long that unless I see it being sold, I'm not going to believe anything about them.
Yes these are one of the hypesters bread and butter "miracles" that never happens
@@salvadorHombredid you know that Tesla is going to have full self driving sometime next year? (2015)
Snow and ice can freeze in the cavaties.
That can also affect normal tires as well. Plus once you get moving most of that will be forced out the tire.
@@spaceengineeringempire4086The fuel efficiency impact is the bigger problem. These introduce greater rolling resistance and require about 20-25% more fuel per distance driven relative to pneumatic tires.
@@spaceengineeringempire4086 forced out by what? There are also loads of things that can get in those gaps and cause damage to the tyres or issues with their function.
Look at them reinventing the wheel
One of the biggest problems for this is that they seem to be a rim and tire combo not just the tire making it expensive in upfront cost
I remember these from the 1970s! 😅 Wire spun TITANIUM are the tires I want, never go flat never wear out! 😂
Their price: 📈📈📈📈📈📈
It's amazing that how like the design of tyre we came up with in about 1850 has been so hard to beat, despite the MAJOR downside of punctures.
I predict that they will greatly harm fuel consumption, and we'll be told that the loss is "offset" by something else about the vehicle.
Police with spike strips: 👁️👄👁️
Run-flat tires seem like a better compromise.
It’s because they profit off of flat tires, so these will only be available to the people who can an entire vehicle’s lifetime of tire replacements up front. Like construction companies who don’t want to stop work to get it fixed, or millionaires who have enough money to spend on it.
They will charge the price of 3 sets of regular tires. They don’t want to lose money on the potential replacements.
You should rarely replace a tire cuz it got punctured. Total waste of money, just get it patched. Now when you have to change the tire due to wear, apparently you gotta throw away the entire wheel and tire?
Also normal tires actually deform when they are turning which is VERY important and something that these airless tires cannot do.
Cleo is the very definition of brains with beauty.
They will probably be engineered to wear out quicker so they have to be replaced often.
Man i need this RN so bad 😭😭😭
High speed chases gonna go crazy wit this one 🗣🔥️🔥️🔥
Spike strips may not work, but some type of shredder strips will. Who knows?
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Rubber/metal mix
@@Bill-sp8kb grappler exists
@@iicustodianlawI've hardly seen any departments using them
girl started making that "buying clothes that make no sense" money
They work well at low speeds. At high speeds. Well, you all find out
We’re going back to the og wheel 😭😭
The problem is that when the tread inevitably wears out you'll have to have a new one pressed on. Press on tires are already extremely expensive to replace.
Probably just the tire. I doubt the wheel would need to be replaced. But the shop might need special equipment to change?
That jacket is wild
1. Create a problem
2. Sell the answer
3. Remember you still haven't answered it
4. More problems
5. Be the problem
You know what will never get a flat? Trains. Bancarsnow
I dunno, the tire that caused the eschede derailment was pretty flat when after it broke
@@jamieking2472 Hmm, yes, now let's look at the average car crashes every year globally and compare that to trainwrecks that obviously happen every year. /s
@@swordzanderson5352 to be clear, I was being very facetious when referring to Eschede. I was referring to how the round metal tire literally flattened due to centripetal force when it cracked. I know trains are much safer.
Even if personal ownership of cars were to be banned worldwide and everyone took trains everywhere you would still need vehicles with tires as well as roads because guess what cannot take the train? Ambulances/ Fire and rescue services, package delivery, bulldozers, cranes, backhoes, cement trucks, and millions of other things which we need to maintain civilization, it is simply impractical to have everything moved by train.
I was with you until you said "ban cars"
I used airless tires (Tanis tires) on my road bicycle several years ago. They sure didn’t get a flat, but they were even bumpier than 19mm 180psi road tires and had the rolling resistance of 2.2” mountain bike tires. I eventually gave up with them due to soft tissue damage in my wrists.
Bro actually re-invented the wheel 💀💀💀
Pretty common on zero turns already
I did a project on these in elementary. That was in 1999.
They're not going anywhere soon.
Think about the reason why you adjust your PSI for more or less grip in different conditions, how you gonna do that without the PSI
Simple, just buy more sets of these likely expensive tyres with different properties and swap them as needed.
@@conorstewart2214Or even better buy worn out tires at the risk of your safety.
That jacket just makes me lol 😂
Air in tires also adds to driver comfort driving over something. You better hope your suspension is top notch if you wanna drive with airless tires
The other point here is that it is way cheaper to fill up a tire with air instead of some expensive material..
Just make it a reality.
I love when water, snow and ice gets into it, expands and causes the driving experience to be all over the place.
This tech has been around for over TWENTY YEARS.
Thats cool and all but your jacket is distracting
Sounds like a you problem.
I think it's cute
There have been airless tires in development for several years. From what one of the teachers told us back in 2015-16, they weren't commercially available because all the laws about flat tires (and minimum driving distance that the tire has to hold up while flat) mentioned PSI or pounds per square inch which only air filled tires have. I guess they finally managed to get those laws adjusted. Similar issues with headlights having a minimum wattage instead of a minimum lumen brightness.
They’re already huge on zero turn mowers. Most industrial ones have them.
It will probably be used in military and construction fields but not public use because there’s no way that tyre can withstand high speeds without deforming.
Big Flat Tire gonna have a word or two......
Michelin will never
Flat tires are their main source of profit
Guy at 12 am: Burnouts
I love the fact that it took us this long to realise that we can just use regular outside air as the air in a tire
Would love it if they made it affordable to the regular consumers
I'm liking this more for the jacket than the tires.
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would love a set of airless tyres, won't need to worry about police spike strips anymore
I remember when the Tweel was first debuted back in 2005. It's nice to see it potentially coming to market after all these years.
>hear about airless tires
>get excited
>hear that they are made of fiberglass
>no longer excited
Airless tires are one of them things that seems stupidly simple until you look in to it
Rubber Dust is actually where a huge chunk of the microplastics are coming from
We have come full circle to reinventing the wheel.
Can't believe the restaurant rating company made a tire. How cool.
"We have just created airless tir..."
"Explosion at michelin"
I mean those holes looks like their filled with air to me.
High speed chase videos gonna be on a whole new level.
FOLLOWING THIS!!!!! Thank you, Cleo!!!
Meanwhile, trains using steel🗿
When wheels were created they were not full of air(think wagon wheels), so at some point humans did experiments and found that air is the best way to make wheels for cars, granted we have new technology and methods but air will be difficult to replace for now.
Good idea until the treads wear out and/or the tire expires
it's also about the complexity of a wheel with a rubber tire having so many parts that can break
Now cover the inside so no debris get it
I once saw someone with a 3D printed airless bike tire and it was super cool! There were several pieces that all snapped together to form the wheel. I think the video in question showed it being used in mountain biking
watch them be like $10k per tire tho :(
As someone who has experienced MANY flat tires over the years, I have often wondered about this!
These tires sound like they'd be great as bike tires
High speed pursuits are gonna be wild
‘I’d love to never get another flat tire’ - Trueee
it would make a nice redundant feature. still filled with air, but with backup supports inside so you don't have to bring out the spare.
I've been waiting for these for years.
Most people switch tires because of bad/used tread, not because of flat due to damage. The idea is nice it just doesn’t stop waste that much
It's good to have technogies that are sustainable and last longer.
The tire companies about to stop this… 😥
Isn't Michelin one of the biggest tyre companies? Who exactly will stop them?
What CleoAbram means by "air", is any gas used to fill a conventional tire, including both air and nitrogen. For conventional gas-filled tires though, nitrogen is by far superior to air in every single way. Unlike air, nitrogen doesn't cause inflation or deflation of the tire based on temperature, humidity, elevation, barometric pressure, etc. Also, nitrogen helps preserve the inside of the tire, making the tire last longer, and reducing the risk of a blowout.
Used tyres are recycled into various rubber based products, including tyres. New tyres are composed in part of recycled rubber from old tyres.
Isn't possible that no tire manufacturer made these 'cause then they'd sell less?
that blazer was a choice
I’m sure Armor All is going to love this.
Some jcb vehicles have airless tires and they look SICK
I just saw a picture of a military bicycle from WW1, the Herrenrad Victoria model of 1905, which was built with "spring wheels". It's a fun thing to watch, and makes one wonder why that design didn't become a thing.
Those airless 'tires' look like dirt & pebble magnets
I could hear you talk all day. Your voice is so calming.
Fun(?) fact:
The vast majority of microplastics around is from car tires. Modern tires aren't really just rubber, they are a mix of rubber and plastics. And when cars drive, the tires start to wear, creating a ton of microplastics.
Turns out most of our environmental problems are caused by cars.
Reinventing the wheel