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The bicycle is becoming increasingly popular for commuting in Belgium. More than one in ten Belgian employees (13,4%) regularly take the bicycle for the commuting trip. That is twice as many as five years (6,4%) ago. This is shown by […]
According to the traffic safety institute Vias, more and more Belgians are interested in electric cars. One in six Belgians considers buying one within three years. One out of ten already has done a test ride, and 25% of them […]
A study by the Brussels mobility department shows that step scooters have become part of the mobility solutions in the city. Poll-takers questioned 1.259 users of e-step scooters, both owners and regular or occasional users of shared services, like Lime. […]
More and more people commute by bicycle and receive compensation for it. Finally, their physical effort yields several hundreds of euros a year. Goodwill A bicycle compensation is a particular amount of money an employer can give his employees for […]
In the Netherlands, the new additional taxable benefit scheme is to boost the leased bike to take the place of the company car. LeasePlan joins forces with the International Bike Group (IBG, the parent company of Fietsenwinkel.nl to seduce the […]
Cowboy, the trendy Belgian electric and connected bicycle brand, made a 3 million euros loss in 2018. Sales, however, are going well. The company already sold three times more bikes than the whole of last year. Cowboy says the financial […]
Uber’s bright red shared electric JUMP bikes will soon no longer been seen in the municipalities of Anderlecht, Molenbeek, Koekelberg, and Laken. Theft of the JUMP bikes, too much vandalism on the bicycles, and cases of aggression against employees of […]
The number of people that cycle to work and get a bicycle allowance increases year after year in Belgium. This year almost 550.000 people declared in their tax declaration for the income year 2018 to have received an allowance, compared […]
Shared electric scooters are a popular means of transport in city centers. The vehicles have an impact on a city’s character, opponents say, they often are a real nuisance on the streets, and they don’t reduce the number of cars […]
The police have caught a cyclist in Courtrai (Belgium) who was driving effortlessly at more than 50 km/hour. The man first claimed to be ‘well trained’, but the police didn’t let themselves fooled. The fast electric bicycle the man was […]
The electric bike capable of reaching speeds up to 45 km/hour, the so-called ‘speed pedelec’, dominates the sales statistics of best-selling mopeds in Belgium with seven out of ten. The speed pedelecs from Swiss Stromer and German Riese und Müller, […]
