MICHELIN

Michelin is a French company leader of tire industry. Michelin is dedicated to sustainably improving the mobility of goods and people by manufacturing and marketing tires and services for every type of vehicle, including airplanes, passenger cars, bicycles/motorcycles, earthmovers, farm equipment and trucks.

In the AEROFLEX project Michelin propose to contribute to the ‘advanced energy management powertrain’ with following activities:

  1. To give recommendations on the most adapted tire size and performance trade off (what includes indeed trade-off between rolling resistance and traction for driven Dolly Axles) taking into account the usage targeted for this kind of vehicle.
  2. To supply the tire data package necessary to assess the convoy performance according to the consortium expectations.
  3. To supply the tires for WP6 demonstrator from our market product portfolio the closest it is possible from task 1 recommendation with benchmark rolling resistance and performance trade off.

Website: www.michelin.com
Country: France