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Ze EV? Valeo, Michelin team up for French electric car champion

It's not a new idea, but Valeo and Michelin want France to be known for electric cars. The two companies have announced they will partner up to develop and build pure EVs and plug-in hybrids. One of the more important partners, an automaker, is still missing. The two companies hope that Michelin's Active Wheel technology, which uses two built-in electric motors in each wheel, will entice one to climb aboard. According to Automotive News Europe, Michelin says that Active Wheel technology eliminates the need for a gearbox, clutch, transmission ... Read more →

Michelin signs on as title sponsor of ALMS Green Challenge Sam Abuelsamid

The American Le Mans Series launched its Green Challenge last fall at the Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta. For 2009, ALMS is making it a season-long fixture. Today in Washington, D.C., ALMS CEO ...

2009 Michelin Challenge Bibendum delayed to at least 2010 Sam Abuelsamid

The current economic turmoil has claimed another victim: the 2009 edition of the Michelin Challenge Bibendum. The event, which has been held more or less annually since 2000, was scheduled to take ...

Michelin teams up with CITIC Guoan Mengguli Corp. for EVs Jeremy Korzeniewski

When one thinks of Michelin, the first thing that often pops up, after the Michelin Man of course, is tires. A tire's design can have a tremendous impact on any given car's performance, both in ...

Paris 2008: Heuliez, Michelin and Orange wrap a revolution in a plain package Domenick Yoney

French coachbuilder Heuliez, along with Michelin and Orange™, have brought with them to the 2008 Paris Motor Show a most unremarkable-looking car. (My apologies to fans of the Opel Agila) And ...

Paris Preview: Venturi and Michelin to unveil electric vehicle collaboration 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

This year's edition of the Paris Motor Show is shaping up to be quite a collection of ecological innovation, ranging from the presently practical to the futuristically fanciful. The just-announced vehicular offspring from a Michelin and Venturi collaboration is bound to fall into the later ...

French magazine calculates the real savings using low-rolling resistance tires 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Every time an automaker announces a green signature label, one of the factory-installed features to reduce fuel consumption is probably low-rolling resistance tires. French magazine Autoplus did a test drive on a regular car, to see how much fuel these tires save. The magazine wanted to run the ...

Airbus successfully tests fuel cells in civilian aircraft 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Nope, this isn't a story about a plane flying exclusively on hydrogen. Instead, it's about Airbus' use of a fuel cell to obtain electricity for some of the plane's electrical needs: motor pump, back-up hydraulic circuit and operating the aircraft's ailerons. The cells produced a total of 10 liters ...

California has low-resistance tire laws 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When I read the Detroit News article headlined Michelin responds with 'green' tires for California, an article about Michelin working with and not fighting California over tire regulation I thought, "That's great, a major corporation working with... wait a minute! California actually has a low ...

Michelin wants to paint the sky to show how much CO2 they save 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Michelin is proud of its line of low-resistance rolling tires (mostly sold under the Energy Saving brand) which have been available since 1992. The French company is launching a campaign in four cities around the world where big scoreboards will refresh every second showing the claimed amount of ...

Frankfurt 2007 video: Michelin's Energy Saver tire 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Michelin has a new low resistance tire called Energy Saver and they brought it to the Frankfurt Motor Show. The Michelin demonstration of the tire at the show has two cars on a slope rolling back and fourth. The car with the Energy Saver tires continues to roll 18 seconds longer than the car ...

Business Week: The Hy-Light, the reinvention of the auto industry? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Before the comments get out of control, I do not think that the Hy-Lite from Michelin and a few other companies based in Switzerland will reinvent the auto industry, as is suggested in the source article. It would be a pretty easy argument that saying such is a gross over-statement of the ...


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