No more low tire pressure
The time of regularly checking the tire pressure of your car is over. At least, if you drive a Citroën Jumpy and work for the French postal company La Poste. La Poste is taking a fleet of cars with airless tires from Michelin into use.
Anyone who thinks that innovations in the automotive world only concern powertrains and infotainment and safety systems is wrong. For example, tire manufacturers are working hard behind the scenes on innovative footwear. Michelin too. After the Michelin Vision in 2017, that French tire farmer presented the Unique Puncture-proof Tire System two years later. The Uptis band, in short. The Uptis tire is an airless car tire that cannot go flat. Incidentally, the innovative piece of rubber is a wheel and tire in one. At the end of this year, DHL will equip a fleet of fifty delivery vans in Singapore with Michelin airless tires and it is now the French postal company La Poste that is equipping part of its fleet of delivery vans with Uptis tyres.
By the end of next year, 40 La Poste Citroen Jumpys will be fitted with Michelin Uptis tires in Hauts-de-France in the north of France. At the time of writing, three copies have already been driving around on the Uptis slippers for a week. According to La Poste and Michelin, the Uptis tires benefit the French postal service because vans equipped with these tires are no longer delayed due to deflated or even completely flat tires. The commercial vehicle market is Michelin’s most important market for its Uptis tyres. It is not known whether La Poste will eventually put its entire 50,000-vehicle fleet on Uptis tires.
Michelin has set itself the goal of selling only fully sustainable car tires by 2050. You can read more about that here.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl