Until the taxi drones take over, Michelin will be in the business of selling tires, but it's idea of what they might look like in a few decades is utterly alien. The "Vision" is an organic, airless, rechargeable, 3D-printed tire, in theory. The far-out concept was floated at Michelin's Movin'On conference in Montreal.

The tire would be made from bio-sourced and biodegradable materials, including natural rubber, paper, tin cans, wood electronic and plastic waste as well as a handful of other recyclable items to minimize its environmental impact. It would also be airless so you wouldn't have to worry about flats.

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But perhaps the biggest would-be feature is that the Vision would be a "rechargeable tire." The dream, as Michelin presents it, would be to have machines that can actually print new and different surfaces onto your tires, like more aggressive treads in the winter months. Of course the only thing that might be worse than actually buying snow tires would be having to find an expensive 3D printer just to refresh your tires. It's been a long road building charging infrastructure for electric cars. Printing stations just for your tires? Yeah right.

Michelin's executive vice president of Research and Development, Terry Gettys, said it will be at least another 10 years before the tire is brought to market, but frankly we'd be surprised to see it at all.

Source : Michelin

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