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0Advantage, Michelin: Tennis shoes wear car rubber 1237746540
Click above for a gallery of the Babolat Propulse 2 with Michelin rubberMichelin, the tire company, has a division called Michelin Lifestyle Limited that focuses solely on extending the company's "Better Mobility Concept" to other arenas, the latest one being center court. The brand of Bibendum ... -
Michelin partners with Chinese firm to create Active Wheel system 1228163460
Click above for more shots of the Michelin Active Wheel and the Ventire VolageBefore Michelin began wrapping halos of rubber around the wheels of our cars, the hoops were made completely from wood -- horse and buggy style. That's what we call a serious innovation, and the French tire maker has ... -
Detroit 2008: Michelin Challenge Design winners 1200437820
Click image for high res gallery of the competitors.Michelin hosts its annual Michelin Challenge Design (design challenge?) to help young designers and their hot designs get some recognition. The emphasis is on innovative thinking, both on the technical and style side. While the challenge doesn't ...
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SEMA 2007: Michelin Supercar Display 1193932980
Click image for a high-res gallery of Michelin booth pics by Drew Phillips At last year's SEMA show, one of our favorite booths by far was the one from Michelin, which brought together the world's fastest supercars for one massive display of speed. We eagerly anticipated what they had in store ...
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Michelin creates Energy Saver gas-conserving tire 1189206060
Michelin has created a new tire as part of the development of the Peugeot 308. The Energy Saver uses a specially-developed rubber composite, and Michelin claims the tire reduces rolling resistance by 20% in both 15- and 16-inch sizes. Tire testing was carried out by TÜV SÜD Automotive, ...
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Michelin claims new tire comfortable, sporting, economical 1180888260
Michelin says there are two touring-tire-buying camps. One drives BMWs and Audis and goes shopping for performance touring tires. The other group drives Camrys and Accords and is somewhat surprised to learn they'll be shopping for more expensive performance tires. The tire company hopes to capture ...
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Michelin lands $1.7b Pentagon contract 1170421440
The French military may not be fighting in Iraq, but their tires are: Michelin just landed an exclusive $1.7 billion contract with the US Department of Defense to supply the American military behemoth with tires. For the next ten years (at least), every vehicle in the US Army, Navy, Air Force ...
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Volvo developing C30 series hybrid concept 1170180120
Volvo has long tried to be good environmental stewards. Even before its revolutionary Lambda-Sond system in the late 1970s, the Gothenburg-based automaker had been making efforts to tread lightly. Now comes word that Volvo has developed a hybrid version of the C30 hatchback. The drive system is ...
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Hydrogen 500: The world's first hydrogen race coming in 2009 1168646640
AutoblogGreen just ran a story we wanted to make sure all of our readers were aware of, so we're running it here, too. It looks like the days of hybrids being seen by some people as pure exercises in extended fuel economy are numbered. Maybe someday soon people will start to associate fuel-cell ...
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Wheeled Spaceship - Volvo BeeVan concept 1168623120
They're going to have to change the name of this thing to NCC-1701, because piloting it will definitely make you feel like you're boldly going where no one's gone before. As part of the Michelin Design Challenge competition, Volvo has revised the design of the the traditional big-rig tractor. ...
