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The theme for the 2011 Michelin Design Challenge was to have designers come up with a vehicle that could be enjoyed by people local to them in 2021.

Mohamad Sadegh Samakoush Darounkolayi's entry into this year's Michelin Design Challenge is an automated, self-balancing personal transport chair balanced on an omnidirectional ball with a touchscreen control console.

The uniquely shaped and textured Michelin Protek Max bicycle inner tube is said to compress punctures closed, instead of blowing them open.

2:1 Industrial Design proposes laying tracks on existing roadways and creating a novel electric vehicle to help deal with congestion in towns and cities throughout Brazil.

The Manta three-wheeler amphibious concept vehicle has an electric motor on each of the rear wheels, which can be rotated 90 degrees to provide propulsion in water.

Michelin used the Challenge Bibendum this year to release a free book entitled “Driving in the future – towards sustainable road mobility” which explains the challenges we face and the ways in which are likely to overcome them. Download the book ...

THINK Electric vehicles are heading south.

The fastest ever Ferrari - the 599 GTO - will go on show shortly but is reserved to the first 599 customers, so get in quick.

Gizmag gets the lowdown on the Venturi Volage concept electric sportscar at the North American International Auto Show 2010 in Detroit.

February 15, 2009 The Tweel is an non-pneumatic Tire/WhEEL combo which offers an idiot-proof, no-maintenance, easily-retreadable tire for consumers and the h

Michelin has announced that it will partner to bring an affordable electric car powered by its Active Wheel System to the roads in 2010.

November 19, 2008 One of the more fascinating developments in the history of the automotive tire is the modern concept of the airless tire. Dunlop produced the first pneumatic tire for bicycles in 1888 and Michelin did likewise for car