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Company cars are under siege. Nevertheless, not all of them are bad. Due to their frequent renewal, they reduce their CO2 emissions quicker than individually owned vehicles. The recent change to petrol from diesel has negatively influenced this tendency. It’s […]
L’Echo – 31 Jul. 2019 Pagina 1 Le renouvellement continu des flottes a eu un effet positif sur les 7 dernieres années. Le débat public sur les voitures de société néglige une donnée importante, selon une enquête menée par le […]
The recent heatwave made it clear: public transport fails to deliver when the temperature gets high. Meanwhile, a leaked internal audit of Infrabel (rail infrastructure company in Belgium) also shows that there is chronic underinvestment in public transport. The heatwave […]
De Morgen – 27 Jul. 2019 Pagina 6 Niet alleen de Belg heeft last van de hitte, ook zijn infrastructuur. En nu klimatologen voorspellen dat er in de toekomst meer van dit soort hitte komt, rijst de vraag: moeten we […]
Four car manufacturers have concluded a first agreement with the State of California concerning the reduction of greenhouse gases from car emissions. By doing so, they challenge the Trump administration, who wants to soften the emission regulations. After a secret […]
Normes CO2: quatre constructeurs automobiles contournent Trump et s’accordent avec la Californie AFP – 25 Jul. 2019 Les constructeurs automobiles Ford, Honda, Volkswagen et BMW ont annoncé jeudi avoir scellé un accord de principe avec la Californie pour réduire les […]
It’s the time of the year. Car manufacturers come with their financial results. And we see more negative than positive signs — a quick round-up of the news that gives us very mixed feelings about the near future in the […]
De Morgen – 25 Jul. 2019 Pagina 17 Nissan gaat wereldwijd 10.0000 banen schrappen en is daarmee de zoveelste autobouwer die dit jaar een ferme ontslagronde aankondigt. Waarom sputtert de motor van de auto-industrie zo plots? In mei maakte Nissan […]
A new vicious hype has popped up in the southern French port of Marseille. Since the school vacation, hundreds of e-steps have deliberately been thrown in the Mediterranean sea. The offenders are children, often not even ten years old. “We’ve […]
Belga – 24 Jul. 2019 (AFP) = Des centaines de trottinettes électriques jetées à la mer de l’esplanade du Mucem, de la Corniche ou de la plage du Prado: à Marseille, opérateurs et bénévoles tentent de mettre fin à un […]
Within five years, the production of electric vehicles (EV) will probably grow sixfold in Europe. But how the mining of cobalt is organized remains a disgrace, tarnishing the sustainable image of EVs. Two-thirds of the world’s cobalt reserves are situated […]
De Morgen – 24 Jul. 2019 Pagina 6 Tegen 2025 zal de productie van elektrische wagens in Europa wellicht verzesvoudigen. Betekent dat ook ‘zeswerf hoera’ voor onze duurzame ambities? Niet zolang de ontginning van kobalt voor autobatterijen, voornamelijk in Congo, […]
After Geely, the biggest single shareholder, now the Chinese BAIC is buying shares of the German car manufacturer Daimler. The Germans are happy that their old partner is now also financially involved. The Chinese market becomes evermore important, also for […]
AFP – 23 Jul. 2019 Le groupe étatique chinois BAIC a resserré les liens avec Daimler, avec lequel il construit une vaste usine de Mercedes, en prenant 5% du capital du constructeur allemand, a indiqué mardi le groupe de Stuttgart. […]
On the 16th of August, BMW will have a new boss, Oliver Zipse. His tasks and responsibilities will be huge. Have times also changed for the German ‘big three’? Zipse will have a lot of challenges to meet shortly. Last […]
Le Monde – 20 Jul. 2019 Pagina 11 La rumeur s’était propagée il y a trois semaines : les jours de Harald Krüger à la tête de BMW étaient comptés. Le président du directoire, en poste depuis mai 2015, avait […]
The electric bike is getting more and more popular, especially in Belgium and the Netherlands, but also in other European countries. The problem is that it seems to be three times more dangerous as well. The Dutch company Accell is […]
ANP – 20 Jul. 2019 N i e u w bericht, meer informatie door hele bericht MÜNCHEN (ANP/DPA) – De kans op een dodelijk verkeersongeluk is in Duitsland op een elektrische fiets driemaal zo groot als tijdens een tocht op […]
Wherever we see the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, he is always driven in one of his exquisite limousines he isn’t supposed to have. There is a UN embargo on luxury products against North Korea for 13 years. How does […]
Le Figaro – 19 Jul. 2019 Pagina 8 Grâce à un complexe jeu de piste, le dictateur nord-coréen contourne l’embargo sur les produits de luxe. ASIE Quand il rencontre Donald Trump à Singapour, ou le secrétaire d’État américain Mike Pompeo […]
Recently, the current CEO of BMW, Harald Krüger, announced he would not go for a renewal of his mandate after April 2020. Today, the supervisory board of the group has already designated his successor, Oliver Zipse. He will take over […]
AFP – 18 Jul. 2019 Réuni aux Etats-Unis, le conseil de surveillance de BMW doit désigner jeudi un successeur à son patron Harald Krüger pour le printemps prochain, chargé de combler le retard du groupe dans la voiture électrique. Aux […]
Geely-owned English car manufacturer Lotus has launched a new hypercar, the Evija. It’s electric, has 2.000 horsepower and will cost 1,9 million euros. The plan is to make 130 units. Four engines The Evija (meaning ‘the living one’) has four […]
Researchers at the UCLouvain (the University of Louvain, French section, Belgium) have announced the discovery of LTPS. LTPS is a new, solid-state alternative for electrolyte in a battery. The research project was financed by Toyota, which obtains the intellectual property […]
L’Echo – 18 Jul. 2019 Pagina 4 Non sans fierté, l’UCLouvain annonçait hier la découverte par ses chercheurs du LTPS, un matériau permettant d’envisager, à l’avenir, des batteries de smartphones, voitures ou vélos plus sûres et plus performantes. Pour comprendre […]
The International Motor Show in Frankfurt (IAA) next September has to cope with the absence of a whole bunch of car manufacturers. Only the Germans will be all present and even they are reducing on space and costs. Is it […]
AFP – 15 Jul. 2019 La puissante industrie automobile allemande s’apprête à vivre une humiliation en septembre, avec un salon de Francfort déserté par les grands constructeurs internationaux, à l’exception des Allemands. “Ce n’est plus une exposition internationale, mais un […]
Ford and Volkswagen are going to collaborate in two crucial domains: autonomous driving and electrification. A merger or financial fusion (even partly) is not on the agenda. Both companies stay entirely independent. Given the significant investments the transition to electrification […]
de Volkskrant – 15 Jul. 2019 Pagina 17 Volkswagen gaat samen met Ford elektrische auto’s maken. Vanaf 2023 zullen in Keulen de ‘VolksFords’ uit de fabriek rollen. ‘Dit wordt de grootste verandering in vervoer sinds iemand met de naam Henry […]
Some 50 French automotive suppliers are in serious trouble because of the spectacular fall of diesel sales in Europe. Faced with the transition of the car industry to other energy sources, these companies are in serious danger, says the French […]
AFP – 10 Jul. 2019 Une cinquantaine d’entreprises de la filière diesel en France se trouvent dans une situation de “difficulté sérieuse” face à la transition de l’industrie automobile vers d’autres sources d’énergie, a indiqué mercredi la Direction générale des […]
The last New Beetle – the ‘retro’ successor of the legendary VW icon – has been produced on Wednesday in its Puebla factory in Mexico. The blue metallic car was the last of a special edition of 65 units to […]
Clap de fin pour la VW Coccinelle: la toute dernière sort d’usine AFP – 10 Jul. 2019 =(Photo+Video+Infographie)= Puebla (Mexique), 10 juil 2019 (AFP) – Mariachis, applaudissements et émotion : le tout dernier exemplaire de la mythique Coccinelle de Volkswagen […]
At a big press conference in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) the new Mini Electric was launched. To the great disappointment of the Dutch, the first electric vehicle of Mini will be built in Cowley (near Oxford, UK). With a range of […]
Het Financieele Dagblad – 10 Jul. 2019 Pagina 21 Rotterdam BMW brengt een volledig elektrische Mini op de markt. Ook die variant blijft Brits: de Duitsers bouwen het nieuwe model voorlopig nog in Oxford, ondanks de brexit. Bij autofabriek VDL […]
