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Vias: 'Cars get safer, bicycles don't: half of seriously injured are cyclists'
Hilde Van Raemdonck·
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Tony Verhelle·
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Joris Van Roy·
Xiaomi has taken another concrete step towards becoming a global carmaker. The tech giant, often referred to as the ‘Chinese Apple’,…
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Although large employers will be required to offer a mobility budget starting in 2027, Belgian companies do not expect a mass switch.…
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Waymo picks BMW’s backyard for first EU robotaxi service
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Waymo is heading for Munich. Alphabet subsidiary will start mapping the Bavarian capital in the coming weeks and aims to open…
Renault refuses to kill buttons but its stalks can still confuse drivers
Joris Van Roy·
Renault says it will not follow the industry trend of putting virtually every function behind a touchscreen. Physical buttons and switches…
D'Ieteren: 'Second-hand EVs retain 95.9% battery capacity on average'
Tony Verhelle·
More than 2,500 battery analyses performed by D’Ieteren Automotive’s second-hand car divisions, My Way and Audi Approved, prove that modern EV…
Flanders’ truck parking plan: 800 spaces against a need for 1,800
Hilde Van Raemdonck·
Flanders wants to create 500 to 800 additional truck parking spaces along its motorways over the next ten years. But that…
Hyundai goes all-out: 41 European launches in global product blitz
Joris Van Roy·
Hyundai is preparing the biggest product offensive in its history, with more than 100 launches and model updates planned worldwide by…
VW workers fear up to 140,000 job losses
Tony Verhelle·
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Dreame’s 0.9-second hypercar was too good to be true
Joris Van Roy·
Four months ago, Newmobility.news wondered whether Dreame’s rocket-powered hypercar was simply “too good to be true”. We now have an answer.…
Mahle thinks drop-in range extenders can accelerate path toward cleaner trucks
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On August 22, seawater temperature (between 60 degrees south and 60 degrees north latitude) reached its highest level ever – 21.10°C,…
Brussels Airport tests autonomous e-tractor for cargo transport
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Chinese brands hit record market share in Europe, targeting 30% by 2030
Piet Andries·
Chinese brands closed in at 11.2% of the European market in July, according to figures from Dataforce. They never reached a…
Opel's next-generation Corsa is EV-only and comes in 2028
Piet Andries·
Opel is preparing a rival for the Renault 5 E-Tech and the Volkswagen ID.Polo. But don’t expect it anywhere soon. The…
Suzuki plans to offer an electric Kei car in Europe
Tony Verhelle·
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Renault upgrades its hit R5 before rivals can catch it
Joris Van Roy·
Renault is already giving its electric R5 a surprisingly substantial technical update less than two years after launch. The headline figure…
Chinese-built Ioniq V might land in Europe, but not in Zeebrugge
Piet Andries·
When Hyundai unveiled the Ioniq V at the Beijing Auto Show four months ago, the assumption still was that there was…
Major clean-up effort at Brussels North Station yields 5.5 tons of trash
Luc Joris·
On Friday, regional and municipal sanitation services cleared 5.5 metric tons of trash from around Brussels’ North Station, a notorious hotspot…
Higher CO2 levels make food more calorie-dense but not more nutritious
Hilde Van Raemdonck·
Scientists at Leiden University have found evidence that plants grow faster due to increased CO2. The flip side is that they become higher…
ParkBee app will now also offer street parking
Tony Verhelle·
ParkBee plans to expand its parking app service in Belgium to street parking. After this summer, drivers looking for a parking…
Emergency door handle triggers China’s largest recall action in history
Piet Andries·
China just launched the largest coordinated vehicle recall in its history. More than 4.3 million cars from at least ten brands…
Global electric truck and bus sales nearly doubled in 2025
Tony Verhelle·
According to a study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), electric trucks and buses reached half a million units…
MG’s €13,500 fastback explodes in China, but Europe is complicated
Joris Van Roy·
Two months after MG unveiled its new 07 fastback in China, the car has turned into an instant hit. SAIC’s British-born…
BMW sold 2 million BEVs and 3.5 million electrified vehicles
Tony Verhelle·
BMW’s Neue Klasse is apparently providing strong momentum for fully electric vehicle sales. Two million BEVs have been handed over to…
Vias: 'Cars get safer, bicycles don't: half of seriously injured are cyclists'
Hilde Van Raemdonck·
In 2024, 13,581 traffic casualties in Belgium were hospitalized following a traffic accident. Of these casualties, 3,232 people suffered serious injuries. That…
Honda won't build a new US factory without USMCA agreement
Tony Verhelle·
The consequences of the upcoming trade war between the US and Canada are already showing. A senior Honda executive said the…
LIZY bets €300 million on giving used EVs a second life
Joris Van Roy·
Belgian scale-up LIZY, a D’Ieteren subsidiary, has secured more than €300 million to expand its second-hand leasing model in Belgium, France,…
Geely is developing a 1,000-volt architecture for shorter charging times
Tony Verhelle·
Geely is developing a new 1,000-volt architecture for electric cars to further reduce charging times. The Chinese group has already installed…
Xiaomi shifts into gear for 2027 assault on Europe’s premium car elite
Joris Van Roy·
Xiaomi has taken another concrete step towards becoming a global carmaker. The tech giant, often referred to as the ‘Chinese Apple’,…
Belgium’s mobility budget: one in four bites, three in four pay mortgage
Hilde Van Raemdonck·
Although large employers will be required to offer a mobility budget starting in 2027, Belgian companies do not expect a mass switch.…
Canada-US trade deal has faltered; tariff threats swing back and forth (update)
Tony Verhelle·
US President Donald Trump said on Monday he will raise US tariffs on all Canadian-made cars, trucks, and auto parts to…
AirBaltic will not be serving Liège Airport after all
Luc Joris·
The Latvian airline AirBaltic will not, after all, be launching flights from Liège Airport to the Canary Islands starting in late…
Waymo picks BMW’s backyard for first EU robotaxi service
Joris Van Roy·
Waymo is heading for Munich. Alphabet subsidiary will start mapping the Bavarian capital in the coming weeks and aims to open…
Renault refuses to kill buttons but its stalks can still confuse drivers
Joris Van Roy·
Renault says it will not follow the industry trend of putting virtually every function behind a touchscreen. Physical buttons and switches…
D'Ieteren: 'Second-hand EVs retain 95.9% battery capacity on average'
Tony Verhelle·
More than 2,500 battery analyses performed by D’Ieteren Automotive’s second-hand car divisions, My Way and Audi Approved, prove that modern EV…
Flanders’ truck parking plan: 800 spaces against a need for 1,800
Hilde Van Raemdonck·
Flanders wants to create 500 to 800 additional truck parking spaces along its motorways over the next ten years. But that…
Hyundai goes all-out: 41 European launches in global product blitz
Joris Van Roy·
Hyundai is preparing the biggest product offensive in its history, with more than 100 launches and model updates planned worldwide by…
VW workers fear up to 140,000 job losses
Tony Verhelle·
Before the summer, VW Group CEO Oliver Blume warned of an additional 50,000 redundancies worldwide, bringing the total to 100,000 once…
Dreame’s 0.9-second hypercar was too good to be true
Joris Van Roy·
Four months ago, Newmobility.news wondered whether Dreame’s rocket-powered hypercar was simply “too good to be true”. We now have an answer.…
Mahle thinks drop-in range extenders can accelerate path toward cleaner trucks
Piet Andries·
Range anxiety is genuinely a more cumbersome problem in heavy haulage than in passenger cars. Stuttgart supplier Mahle thinks the answer…
Copernicus : 'Sea surface temperature never higher than on August 22'
Hilde Van Raemdonck·
On August 22, seawater temperature (between 60 degrees south and 60 degrees north latitude) reached its highest level ever – 21.10°C,…
Brussels Airport tests autonomous e-tractor for cargo transport
Luc Joris·
Brussels Airport is testing a self-driving electric tractor in the cargo zone that transports cargo trailers between the warehouses and the…
Chinese brands hit record market share in Europe, targeting 30% by 2030
Piet Andries·
Chinese brands closed in at 11.2% of the European market in July, according to figures from Dataforce. They never reached a…
Opel's next-generation Corsa is EV-only and comes in 2028
Piet Andries·
Opel is preparing a rival for the Renault 5 E-Tech and the Volkswagen ID.Polo. But don’t expect it anywhere soon. The…
Suzuki plans to offer an electric Kei car in Europe
Tony Verhelle·
Suzuki is planning to introduce an electric Kei Car called Vision e-Sky in Europe as early as next year. The micro…
Renault upgrades its hit R5 before rivals can catch it
Joris Van Roy·
Renault is already giving its electric R5 a surprisingly substantial technical update less than two years after launch. The headline figure…
Chinese-built Ioniq V might land in Europe, but not in Zeebrugge
Piet Andries·
When Hyundai unveiled the Ioniq V at the Beijing Auto Show four months ago, the assumption still was that there was…
Major clean-up effort at Brussels North Station yields 5.5 tons of trash
Luc Joris·
On Friday, regional and municipal sanitation services cleared 5.5 metric tons of trash from around Brussels’ North Station, a notorious hotspot…
Higher CO2 levels make food more calorie-dense but not more nutritious
Hilde Van Raemdonck·
Scientists at Leiden University have found evidence that plants grow faster due to increased CO2. The flip side is that they become higher…
ParkBee app will now also offer street parking
Tony Verhelle·
ParkBee plans to expand its parking app service in Belgium to street parking. After this summer, drivers looking for a parking…
Emergency door handle triggers China’s largest recall action in history
Piet Andries·
China just launched the largest coordinated vehicle recall in its history. More than 4.3 million cars from at least ten brands…
Global electric truck and bus sales nearly doubled in 2025
Tony Verhelle·
According to a study by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), electric trucks and buses reached half a million units…
MG’s €13,500 fastback explodes in China, but Europe is complicated
Joris Van Roy·
Two months after MG unveiled its new 07 fastback in China, the car has turned into an instant hit. SAIC’s British-born…
As tangible proof of that commitment, VinFast has started deploying electric buses on European roads, demonstrating its intention to go beyond providing EVs for the passenger car sector and become part of urban mobility.
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