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Dutch fast-charging network Fastned has opened on Tuesday its first four fast-charging stations in France. Five more will be opened in the following weeks along the Autoroute du Soleil (A6) and on the route to Switzerland and in the Dijon […]
Imagine over 20 000 half pallets of cargo per hour per direction flashing through vacuum tubes along the A4 highway between Amsterdam and Rotterdam at up to 700 km/hour. At the same time, trucks shuffle along on the asphalt besides. […]
An electric (company) car is still on average 50% more expensive than its sibling with an internal combustion engine (ICE), says HR-service bureau Acerta, but in Total Cost of Ownership (TOC), that’s not the case. Employers are raising their company […]
Using geofencing technology and GPS, BMW lets its plug-in hybrids switch to zero-emission pure electric drive automatically when possible in so-called ‘eDrive Zones’. These zones are extended to 138 European cities today, and BMW will add another 30 next year. […]
Belgian telecom operator Proximus has started a pilot project in Mechelen to remodel old phone distribution boxes in the streets into EV charging stations. As these typical grey plastic boxes get partly obsolete due to the new fiberglass network, this […]
How to choose between two twins? Not identical, but both beauties in their own style. We drove the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6 both for a week long. Technically, it’s a close draw. So it will come to design, […]
Nissan Belgium is withdrawing from the Brussels Motor Show (BMS), scheduled from 14 till 23 January 2022. In a short statement on Wednesday, Nissan said it acknowledges the organizer Febiac’s efforts to limit the risks of Covid-19 during the show […]
Dutch EV charging network specialist Allego and its parent company, the Paris-based global infrastructure investor Meridiam have concluded the first phase in financing the roll-out of 2 000 EV-chargers. They will be ranging from 22 kW AC and 75 to […]
Ionity, the jointly owned fast-charging network of BMW, Ford, Hyundai-KIA, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Porsche, will more than quadruple the number of chargers from 1 526 today to 7 000 in 24 countries by 2025. That will include new High Power […]
In Norway, the world’s first fully electric and autonomous sailing container ship Yara Birkeland has successfully completed its maiden trip last week under human surveillance, but without help. The short 7,5 nautical mile trip (13,7 km) offered several challenges like […]
It looks like the success of the Lynk & Co month-to-month (M2M) subscription model is starting to work as an ice-breaker to open up new possibilities for the car subscription market. Leasys, a subsidiary of the FCA Bank and part […]
At the Los Angeles Motor show in its hometown, American electric carmaker Fisker presented its now production-ready version of the Ocean SUV last week, in three flavors and starting at $37 499 before incentives. For that price, you’ll get the […]
Mattel’s world-famous doll for decades, Barbie gets her own electric sportscar, as shown on the LA Motor Show last week. It is a full-size two-seat convertible designed to promote Mattel’s range of fashion dolls and accessories, build on the Fiat […]
Incorporated into the Green Energy Park project in the Zellik Research Park near the Brussels Ring, Smart Village Lab is a living university lab to jointly test the energy use of the future with the industry. Flemish Minister for Innovation […]
US startup Ample is targetting Europe to introduce its battery-swapping technology through an extended partnership with Uber. The ride-hailing company wants to have half of the kilometers driven in seven capital cities in Europe to be electric by 2025. That […]
Belgian bus and tour car maker Van Hool has presented the TDX25E Astromega, its first double-deck coach, targeted to the US market. It offers a range of 500 km for 69 passengers, 18 on the lower deck, 51 on the […]
It looks like Californian start-up Canoo is questioning its planned production start in 2022 for its Lifestyle EV at Dutch contract manufacturer VDL Nedcar in Born (Netherlands), close to the Belgian border. CEO Tony Aquila favors speeding up the build […]
The charging cable risking to overheat when too much electricity is pushed through it is the limiting factor why charging an electric car takes so long today. Ford says its researchers are working with the US Purdue University on new […]
Dutch fast-charging network operator Fastned is raising prices by 17% to compensate for the peaking electricity prices. In practice, EV drivers will now pay €0,69 per kWh in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. For an extra 100 km range, the […]
Daimler Truck and French oil giant TotalEnergies have signed an agreement to jointly kick start the rollout of hydrogen infrastructure and heavy-duty trucks in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, and France. Daimler wants its hydrogen trucks deployed fully on the […]
BMW Motorrad has started in Berlin the serial production of its all-electric maxiscooter CE 04, both in the consumer version as the police version. “All future new models from BMW Motorrad in the area of urban mobility will be 100% […]
The Greek government has finally thought its climate plans through and is joining the leading group of European countries to ban the sales of new ICE cars already in 2030, five years ahead of what is currently on the EU […]
According to the Bloomberg news agency, electronics giant Apple has hired another high-ranking Tesla engineer for its Titan project; former AutoPilot software director Christopher ‘CJ’ Moore. As always, Apple declines to comment on its plans for a self-driving car. Moore […]
Antwerp Port and Zeebrugge Port will set up a hydrogen import logistic chain with Chile. Belgium’s major ports who decided earlier this year to merge into Port Antwerp-Bruges signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for this in Glasgow. Belgium will […]
Dutch oil giant Shell, Swedish energy provider Vattenfall, and Scandinavia’s leading airline SAS announced to jointly study the possibilities to produce 50 000 tons of electrofuel for aviation, made from green hydrogen and CO2, captured from a district heating facility. […]
On Wednesday, Volkswagen has unwrapped its newest siblings in the EV range, the SUV coupé ID.5 and the sporty variant with dual motors and all-wheel drive, the ID.5 GTX. Jozef Kabaň, Head of Volkswagen Design, believes this sleek coupé-like SUV […]
Volvo’s sister brand Lynk & Co, just celebrating its fifth anniversary two weeks ago, is struggling to keep all of its 30 000 – or even 50 000 – ‘club members’ in Europe happy and tackle software problems that may […]
On 16 November, Renault will present to the public the new fully electric version of its popular compact van, baptized ‘Kangoo Van E-TECH Electric’. An upgraded battery of actual usable 45 kWh extends its range to 300 km (WLTP). That’s […]
Tesla is opening up a number of its Superchargers in the Netherlands to third parties as a test for the rest of Europe. The ‘non-Tesla Supercharger pilot project’ allows other car brands to access the chargers via the Tesla app […]
Next year, an additional 250 public charging stations of 7,4 or 11 kW, accommodating two e-cars simultaneously, will be installed in the Brussels Capital Region, on top of the 944 ones that are active today. The Brussels Minister for Climate […]
Stellantis has presented a new generation of Fiat vans and a ‘reborn’ Multi-Purpose Van (MPV), a people carrier with familiar names: Scudo and Ulysses. They’ll come with a classic ICE (diesel) powertrain, but also as a fully electric (BEV) alternative. […]
British-American start-up in hydrogen-powered aviation, ZeroAvia, has signed an agreement with Dutch aviation partners to realize a zero-emission one-hour flight route with a 19-seat airplane on hydrogen between London and The Hague Airport (RTHA) in Rotterdam. ZeroAvia and Royal Schiphol […]
British global chemical company, Ineos, a specialist in producing ‘low-carbon’ hydrogen, is working on a hydrogen demonstration version of its Landrover Defender-clone, the Grenadier, for road testing by the end of 2022. The latter will most likely get a Hyundai […]
German carmaker Mercedes-Benz opened on Tuesday ordering for the plug-in version of its new C-Class, the C300e sedan, and estate. The latter offers a fully electric autonomy of more than 110 km (WLTP). Prices, VAT of 19% included in Germany, […]
Rising again from the ashes after bankruptcy, international car rental company Hertz has ordered 100 000 Tesla Model 3s to make 20% of its fleet electric and offer the largest EV rental fleet in the US. The Teslas will be […]
