Company Uses Nasa’s Rover Technology to Create Airless Tires for CES 2023

For its investigations of the Moon, Mars, and other planets in our solar system, NASA has been developing cutting-edge tyre technologies since 1967. A FedTech NASA Startup Program is now ensuring that these extraterrestrial technology reach Earth. The Shape Memory Alloy Radial Technology (SMART), touted as a game-changing innovation in the tyre business, has been introduced by the SMART Tire Company. According to the manufacturer, this tyre will revolutionise both on- and off-road vehicle performance, creating new opportunities for global mobility. These NASA-developed superelastic tyres are strong, long-lasting, and do not puncture. The SMART Tire Company is currently commercialising them for use on land. NiTinol+ (nickel-titanium), a novel technological material that is both durable like titanium and elastic like rubber, was used to build it. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="2000"] Image credit- TechCrunch[/caption] These superelastic tyres were developed in response to the extreme problems the NASA rover faces on Mars, where there are no roads, temperatures can reach -100C, and other difficulties. Shape memory alloys' unique properties will also be utilised in a patented load-bearing design for the SMART Tire. These unusual metals have the speed, force, and flexibility to bend, compress, expand, and then straighten out large objects. The SMART Tire firm claims that even after significant distortion, the tyre keeps 100% of its shape because to molecular phase transitions. The first product from the company to be made publicly available will be a unique form of airless bicycle tyre dubbed METL. It is believed that these tyres would soon outlast conventional machinery and do away with the requirement for regular auto maintenance. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="4240"] Image credit- T2 Portal[/caption] The SMARTT Tire firm asserts audaciously that the development of driverless and electric vehicles will be impossible without its thin, superelastic, space-age metal tyres. In the categories of Eco-Design & Smart Energy, Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility, and Sustainability, the METL airless bicycle tyre took home CES 2023 Innovation Awards. The business will display its tyres at the CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, from January 5 to 8, 2023. At launch, it is predicted that the METL bicycle tyre will cost between $100 and $150, or it could be competitively priced as a high-end wheelset. Beginning in Q1 2023, orders for these tyres will be taken.