Neither rain nor snow nor global warming will stop these futuristic concept tires from getting where they need to go--even if it means morphing to adapt to the terrain.
Hankook Tire has revealed its latest installment in the Design Innovation Project, a research and development initiative where the company partners with a university to develop cutting-edge tire concepts every two years.
With the theme "A Great Challenge for a Great Change," Hankook Tire and the University of Design, Engineering and Business in Pforzheim, Germany, wanted to respond to the climate change debate with tires that can navigate everything from rough desert conditions to heavy snow and rain.
The three new concepts are called Boostrac, Alpike and Hyblade, and it's kind of a shame they aren't real.
Ready for desert or the mountains, Boostrac has hexagonal tread blocks with an "expanded mode" option that gives the tire even greater traction.
Alpike has a special expansion capability as well that gives the tire a greater circumference and increases the vehicle's ground clearance, allowing it to travel over heavy snow.
Perhaps the toughest concept of the three, the HyBlade tire was developed to navigate heavy rain and features "waterwheel" tread and side spokes for ultimate driving and steering force.
The new Hankook Tire concepts can be viewed in all their transforming, desert-navigating, freewheeling glory here or below.
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