Airless Tire Blog

Airless Tire Blog

Welcome to airless-tire.com,

Airless Tire Blog is more of an experiment than anything else: I have no clue about blogging and this is my very first attempt at publishing a blog, so please bear with me as I am figuring out how to make this work.

You may wonder what pushed me to start this blog? Quite simply, I am intrigued by the idea of airless tires and this for two reasons: first of all, with over a billion units produced annually, tires are one of those consumer goods for which true recycling remains a major challenge. Granted, there are various ways that a tire can be recycled today but none of the current recycling methods allows for a full cradle-to-grave approach.

Secondly, like most of you, I am lazy and don’t really take care of my tire pressure the way I should. Now, a non-pneumatic tire wouldn’t require regular air-ups – great, one less thing to worry about.

Will a non-pneumatic tire for passenger cars ever become a reality? To my mind, there is no telling yet if the pneumatic tire design such as we know it today will ever become threatened by a non-pneumatic design. Sure enough some players in the tire industry have been exploring airless tire architectures but so far none have made it to commercial scale. But then again, technological disruptions tend to be unexpected and happen fast once their time has come.

This is why I created airless-tire.com – to keep tabs on the pulse of technological developments by bringing you news and updates around airless tires.