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AFP – 17 Sep. 2019 =(Photo Archives)= Berlin, 17 sept 2019 (AFP) – Après de longs mois passés à tergiverser, le gouvernement d’Angela Merkel doit dévoiler vendredi sa grande loi climatique sur fond de manifestations pro-environnement massives attendues en Allemagne. […]
BMW sales boss, Pieter Nota, has declared to the Financial Times this weekend that there will be no successor for the emblematic and full electric i3. Instead, the electrification of the whole range is now the priority. When it was […]
L’Echo – 17 Sep. 2019 Pagina 18 BMW débranche la prise de la i3 qui ne sera pas renouvelée. Elle restera la voiture pionnière du groupe dans l’électrique, même si atypique. Aujourd’hui, la place est à l’électrification complète de toute […]
At the IAA motor show in Frankfurt, Thierry Bolloré, CEO of the French car manufacturer, Renault, presented the new Captur. At the same time, he commented on some hot issues regarding the company, the Alliance with Nissan and the automotive […]
On Thursday, German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, opened the IAA motor show in Frankfurt. She promised to help the German car industry but urged the sector also to solve a few problems quickly. “It’s an error to think that the State […]
AFP – 12 Sep. 2019 =(Photo+Video)= Francfort, 12 sept 2019 (AFP) – Une “révolution” en cours dans un climat morose: Angela Merkel a promis d’aider une industrie automobile confrontée à des défis “herculéens” et qui doit regagner la confiance du […]
Today, the Frankfurter International Motor Show (IAA) edition 2019 opens its doors for the public. The visitors will be slightly flabbergasted. The glamorous and exuberant days of earlier shows are clearly over. More than 20 different brands have chosen to […]
Until now, practically no electric vehicle has a real gearbox with different gears. There is more than one reason that this will change in the future. There are several reasons why electric motors aren’t often linked to gearboxes. The main […]
In Spain, the import organization of the Korean car manufacturer, Kia, has asked its dealers not to register electric cars and plug-in hybrids before November 1st officially. It’s Kia Spain’s sales director, Javier Casado, who has written a letter to […]
de Volkskrant – 06 Sep. 2019 Pagina 28 De Spaanse tak van autofabrikant Kia heeft dealers in zijn land opgedragen tot 1 november geen nieuwe elektrische voertuigen en pluginhybriden op kenteken te zetten. Door de verkoop van deze (bijna) emissievrije […]
The road-pricing discussion is here to stay. This time it’s the Belgian Federal Planning Bureau (Planbureau) publicizing a new study on Friday. If taxes on transport would better correlate with congestion and environmental costs, this could save up to 2,3 […]
Federaal Planbureau legt kilometerheffing weer op tafel De Standaard* – 06 Sep. 2019 Pagina 1 * De Standaard/West-Vlaanderen, De Standaard/Oost-Vlaanderen, De Standaard/Antwerpen, De Standaard/Vlaams-Brabant/Brussel, De Standaard/Limburg Files kosten ons land jaarlijks 2,3 miljard euro welvaart. ‘De transportfiscaliteit is niet meer […]
On Wednesday, September 4th, Porsche presented its new fully electric Taycan simultaneously in three ‘green’ places over the world. The Stuttgarter car manufacturer claims the Taycan to be the first real electric sports car you can buy (from 2020 onward). […]
In a unique collaboration, the EU car industry (ACEA), the electricity sector (Eurelectric) and a green action group (Transport and Environment) have joined forces to call on the European institutions. “A rapid roll-out of smart charging infrastructure for electrically-chargeable vehicles […]
The closer the commuters live near Brussels city, the more they take their car for commuting. That’s one of the results of a survey of Mathieu Strale (ULB University). One-third of all persons commuting every day into Brussels (±110.000 out […]
De Standaard* – 04 Sep. 2019 Pagina 23 * De Standaard/West-Vlaanderen, De Standaard/Oost-Vlaanderen, De Standaard/Antwerpen, De Standaard/Vlaams-Brabant/Brussel, De Standaard/Limburg Hoe dichter pendelaars bij Brussel wonen, hoe sneller ze de wagen nemen om naar de hoofdstad te komen. Van onze redacteur […]
The Ministers of Economy of both France and Japan have announced that both countries are going to cooperate more in the automotive industry. At the same time, they confirm their full support to the Renault/Nissan alliance. The French minister, Bruno […]
AFP – 02 Sep. 2019 La France et le Japon vont explorer des possibilités de coopération dans l’industrie automobile, au delà de l’alliance formée par les constructeurs Renault et Nissan, ont annoncé lundi les ministres de l’Economie des deux pays. […]
The Belgian car market is decreasing this year, as is the French car market and a lot of others in Europe. Two-wheelers, on the contrary, are having a revival. Let’s look at the Belgian car market first. On Monday, we […]
L’Echo – 03 Sep. 2019 Pagina 17 Le marché automobile belge est clairement orienté à la baisse cette année, mais les chiffres restent difficiles à interpréter avec les changements de normes. La tendance baissière du marché automobile s’est confirmée en […]
The German automotive supplier, Continental, is thinking about making its powertrain division entirely or partly independent. It is hesitating between a total IPO or a partial one. The spin-off would have the name Vitesco. Chen at Continental they say ‘powertrains’, […]
AFP – 02 Sep. 2019 L’équipementier automobile allemand Continental a annoncé lundi étudier la possibilité de se séparer de sa division transmissions (“Powertrain”) par une mise en Bourse totale, comme option alternative à la vente partielle. “Le conseil de surveillance […]
Automotive supplier Punch Powertrain wants to cut 188 of the 1.100 jobs it has in its factory near Sint-Truiden (east of Belgium). The producer of automatic gearboxes suffers from the decline of the Chinese car market. It was a turbulent […]
Slowly but surely electrification in the automotive sector is coming. But the more expensive electric car and stringent regulations lead one sort of car to extinction: the cheap, no-nonsense little hatchback. In the first six months of this year, the […]
Algemeen Dagblad* – 30 Aug. 2019 Pagina 18 Automobilisten met een beperkt budget kunnen maar beter snel toeslaan als ze nog een goedkope auto willen kopen. Autofabrikanten vrezen dat nieuwe modellen straks minimaal 20.000 euro kosten. Liefhebbers van goedkope auto’s […]
Toyota, buying 5% of Suzuki, is strengthening its position again. It is now a shareholder in four of its compatriot car manufacturers. The crossed shareholding means that Toyota will have 4,94% of Suzuki shares and Suzuki 0,2% of Toyota stock. […]
Le Figaro – 29 Aug. 2019 Pagina 25 Le géant japonais, qui va prendre 5 % de Suzuki, sera actionnaire de quatre de ses compatriotes. AUTOMOBILE Toyota continue de tisser sa toile dans le paysage automobile. Le géant japonais et […]
The plans to have road-pricing within the Brussels region, announced on Wednesday, create great turmoil in political and business environments. The Plan of Brussels Mobility Minister, Elke Van den Brandt (Flemish green party, Groen), is to create road-pricing within the […]
Groentje loopt blauwtje met Brusselse stadstol De Standaard* – 29 Aug. 2019 Pagina 8 De regering-Vervoort blust een eerste brandje na een soloslim van de nieuwe minister Elke Van den Brandt (Groen) over de kilometerheffing. Van onze redactrice Marjan Justaert […]
Recent studies with the newest diesel engines (6d Temp) have shown that a diesel car cleans the air it is taking in and emits again when there is much pollution (NOx, particulates). When the city air is not very polluted, […]
Het Laatste Nieuws* – 28 Aug. 2019 Pagina 1 In steeds meer steden hebben dieselmotoren afgedaan. Nefast voor de gezondheid, klinkt het. Een Duitse studie wijst het omgekeerde uit: de nieuwste diesels kunnen de omgevingslucht net zuiveren. Vlaamse experts bevestigen. […]
Mercedes’ first car of its new fully electric range is on the road now. We drove the EQC and found typical qualities, but also reasonably odd inconsistencies. And of course, it’s a Mercedes, so it’s not really affordable for the […]
Using his famous tweets weapon, US President Trump has attacked the car manufacturers that concluded a deal about future emission rulings with the state of California. He calls their CEO’s weak and crazy, considers the companies to be disloyal. Four […]
AFP – 22 Aug. 2019 Donald Trump s’en est pris mercredi aux constructeurs automobiles qui ont ignoré ses avances et préféré conclure un accord avec la Californie sur des futures normes d’émission plus sévères. L’agence de protection de l’environnement de […]
Transport economists Bruno De Borger (University of Antwerp) and Stef Proost (University of Louvain) plead for ‘supersmart’ road-pricing. With a road tax varying every 5 minutes you can spread traffic so efficiently that congestion disappears. “The departing times of the […]
