Polaris, maker of powersports vehicles such as snowmobiles and ATVs, will put an airless tire onto a production vehicle by 2014. To recap, an “airless tire” is what’s known as a non-pneumatic tire ...

While the everyday driver relies on a set of pneumatic tires to get from A to B, tire companies like Michelin are doing valuable research and development into airless tires because they don’t go flat.

According to Polaris, the TerrainArmor tires, can take a direct hit from a .50-caliber round and still drive 350 miles; they can also last 1,000 miles after running over a railroad spike. How do they ...

All-terrain vehicle riders, the pain will soon be over. For years, pneumatic tires -- the kind you fill with air -- have been a burr in the side of the ATV industry. Even on short excursions over ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran March 11, 2013 Comment Now! Airless tires, or non-pneumatic tires as they’re known in the industry, have been around for several years now. In fact, Michelin first showed off its ...

You know what I have always hated about tires? The air. Fortunately Polaris, a manufacturer of ATVs, finally has an answer to my prayers: airless tires. This exciting new piece of tech was originally ...

There’s nothing that ruins going to work like having your tires shot out with a .50 caliber machine gun round. If that happens to you a lot, and your commute is across open fields and through the ...

Polaris Industries Inc. has surely unleashed what every soldier driving on the battlefield would want: a tire that can't go flat. Last month, Polaris unveiled its airless "never-flat" tire at the U.S.

As much as big tire companies like to sell you more and more tires, they know that there'd be huge demand for ones that don't go flat. That's why eight years ago Michelin introduced the Tweel, an ...

The Polaris Factory Racing crew is doing something special in off-road competition. In an announcement last week, it claimed to be the industry’s first manufacturer-backed race team with a ...