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Lufthansa’s ‘Compensaid’ program is the first of its kind to allow passengers to compensate for the CO2 caused by their flight immediately. Compensaid proposes two ways to compensate, a forestation program in Nicaragua or SAF, a sustainably produced biofuel. While […]
The company Drive Technology Holland has developed a worldwide patented gearless drive system that can significantly improve the efficiency and performance of (electric) cars, vehicles, ships, windmills, bicycles, and machines. Controlled Rotation System Drive Technology Holland is located in the […]
More than 50 Flemish entrepreneurs have written an open letter to Belgian politicians outlining 36 proposals for a better policy. Besides a radical reform of the Belgian fiscal system and a new view on migration, the entrepreneurs also have recommendations […]
Mercedes has just organized the first test drives with the e-Vito, which can reach a distance of up to 150 km with only one charge. However, like electrically-powered passenger cars, the price tag is considerable, and versatility is limited. Lower […]
Luc Vandenbulcke is the new CEO of dredging company DEME. He sees growth in the future, but also obstacles to overcome. In any way, this growth has to be sustainable. As one of the fathers of the windmill parks in […]
Last year, the Flemish car buyer paid 15,7 million euros more than budgeted to register his new car. That might be good news for the treasury, but not for the climate. It means the ‘greening’ of the car fleet is […]
Jay Inslee, a Democratic candidate for the presidency and governor of the state of Washington (US), pushes the climate issue way forward on the democratic agenda. He is solely talking about this, to make his point perfectly clear and convincing. […]
According to climate targets, there should be 15.000 hydrogen cars in the Netherlands by 2025. At the moment, there are barely 150 hydrogen-powered vehicles in the Dutch car fleet. Realistic objective? Is the objective realistic? After all, there are only […]
Several Belgian non-governmental organizations want Belgium to reduce its objectives to use more biofuels. They launched their joint statement following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report last Tuesday. The report confirmed that large-scale biofuel production has a negative […]
With one million electric vehicles in Belgium by 2030, this fleet of EVs could deliver a backup solution for the electricity grid. It could equal nearly today’s 5 MW nuclear capacity of the Thihange and the Doel powerplants combined. It’s […]
The Pukkelpop festival in Belgium has a first. The Hasselt festival will draw part of its power from the very first Green Energy Mill (GEM), a sustainable, collapsible energy tower designed by researchers from the Dutch Technical University of Eindhoven. […]
Mining giant Glencore has announced that it will close the largest cobalt mine in the world. The price of cobalt has decreased, and the offer is starting to exceed the demand. In a letter to the personnel, British-Swiss mining giant […]
How will your mobility look like in twenty years from now? French newspaper, Le Figaro, probed several experts for their future visions. “Mobility solutions will be abundant, tailor-made, and invoiced per kilometer.” When people try to envision mobility in the […]
Last year, Flanders delivered much more green electricity to its end users. Besides, the Flemish production was more significant than ever. According to figures from the Flemish energy regulator, Vreg, it went up from almost 32% to 44,5%, at the […]
Umicore’s stock market value is rising again after the hit it took in April. The Belgian raw material supplier’s half-year results were better than expected. But the company remains prudent about future financial results. Especially the unstable automotive market, Umicore’s […]
A French start-up wants to convert old diesel and petrol cars into electric models – for barely 5.000 euros. Not everyone is convinced. Conversion costs 8.500 euros The French entrepreneur and activist Aymeric Libeau founded Transition-One. With his start-up, he […]
For two months, a bus lent by the Walloon public transport company, TEC, will run up and down a closed portion of the road to see what impact on air quality a switch to biodiesel would have. The bus will […]
After six years of darkness on the Dutch highways, the Netherlands has decided to switch on the lights again for safety reasons. In Belgium, Flanders has no intentions to follow the Dutch example, Wallonia is rather betting on ‘intelligent lighting’. […]
An inventor from Brabant, the Netherlands, has found a viable solution for energy storage: basalt. Electrical current from solar panels is converted into heat and stored in basalt stones. Bunker Cees van Nimwegen (75) from Bes, a former employee of […]
Dutch fast-charger company Fastned has doubled its losses again – to 5,6 million euros – in the first six months of this year, compared to the same period last year. But with a turnover growing with 230% to 1,78 million […]
After a rather small debut during the COP21 in 2015 with five cars, French company Hype is now running 110 hydrogen taxis in France’s capital city. By 2020, the fleet should grow past the 600-mark with 500 new Toyota Mirai. […]
Electric cars are criticized because, according to critics, they emit a lot of fine dust, produced by the tires and brakes. Today, it also becomes clear that the road surface wears out much faster from EVs, compared to ICE vehicles. […]
With the number of electric cars expected to explode in the next five years, Europe desperately wants its battery factories and is making eyes now at Portugal for its lithium. But the locals at Seia in the green Serra da […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) wants to stop investing billions in fossil fuel projects by the end of 2020. EIB makes this major change because the world is not on track to meet the Paris climate targets. “An important signal,” […]
French automotive suppliers Plastic Omnium, Faurecia, and Michelin, are paving the way for making fuel cell technology and hydrogen a mass product and bringing down the high prices of today by the economics of scale. For Faurecia, for instance, it’s […]
About half a million cars, 5,3% of all Dutch passenger cars, still drive around on winter tires these days with temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius. It results in life-threatening situations in traffic because the braking distance at these temperatures can […]
The Belgian bus manufacturer, Van Hool, is going to build twenty hydrogen buses for the Dutch public transport company, Qbuzz. One of the most significant orders for hydrogen buses for the company, after the order of forty hydrogen buses for […]
While 2020-2021 is announcing as a tipping point for the electric car, Flanders is still having only 36 fast chargers operational along its major roads, lagging seriously behind compared to countries like The Netherlands, with over 200 already. Agonizing slow […]
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 […]
The world’s first ‘solar road,’ a one-kilometer stretch in Tourouvre-au-Perche (Normandy, France) covered with 2.800 square meters of solar panels turns out to be a fiasco, two and a half years later. Shortened with several hundred meters because of damaged […]
The Walloon hydrogen specialist, John Cockerill, has been selected to build the world’s largest electrolyzer. It will produce hydrogen for the fleet of 85 buses that will run in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics village. Power will be supplied by […]
The electric car is about to go mainstream in Europe with 2020-2021 as a tipping point, due to Europe’s strict CO2 reduction (95 g/km) requirements for the car industry. From 60 ‘electric models’, plug-in hybrids and fuel cell vehicles included, […]
A Belgian consortium is investigating whether it would be feasible to produce solar energy at sea. The development of floating solar energy plants worldwide is scarcely out of the egg. Today, floating solar energy panels are rarely seen, and most […]
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 […]
In 1920, Maarten Steinbuch’s great-grandfather, George F. Steinbuch, wrote in his textbook that “the days of the electric car were over”. The reason for its popularity in those days were female drivers because a combustion engine was too hard for […]
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