Kumho Tire Wins Red Dot Award

The Red Dot Awards is the world’s largest design competition organized by the Northheim Vestpalen Design Center in Germany since 1955. The designs of the entries are evaluated in three categories: Product Design, Brands & communication design and Design concept.

Domestic Urban Air Mobility (UAM) developers plan to release UAM in 2025 and are set to implement official services in 2030. VTOL (Vertical Take-off and Landing) aircraft, a representative UAM, is being developed to operate with 100% electric power. In preparation for the commercialization of UAMs, Kumho Tire designed UAM system tires that applied the principle of a magnetic field, taking ideas from the magnetic levitation train system. …

Source: Autosphere