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Port of Antwerp to launch world’s first ‘methatug’
Hilde Van Raemdonck Posted On June 24, 2021


Port of Antwerp is converting one of its tug boats to methanol propulsion, a world first. The so-called ‘methatug’ should be operational by 2022. The initiative is part of the European Fastwater project, set up by a consortium of European […]


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Do fast chargers bill more power than delivered?
Gert Verhoeven Posted On June 23, 2021


The Dutch metrology institute NMI sounds the alarm bell on the accuracy of the energy supplied by fast chargers for electric cars. Consumers and the NMI are noticing a difference between the kWh charged when refueling and the number of […]


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Audi to launch battery-electric cars only after 2026 (update)
Joris Van Roy Posted On June 23, 2021


After 2026, German carmaker Audi is to launch no cars with internal combustion engines (ICE) anymore, even no plug-in hybrids, but only battery-electric cars. The news brought a few days ago by the Süddeutsche Zeitung was confirmed later by ‘Audi […]


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Wallonia takes step toward legal framework for e-scooters
Luc Joris Posted On June 22, 2021


The Mobility Committee in the Walloon Parliament has given the go-ahead for a decree framework for e-scooters in the free fleet. This means that the e-scooter does not have to be returned to a fixed place but can be left […]


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Registrations for Brussels air quality study exceed expectations
Luc Joris Posted On June 21, 2021


In total 5 578 people have registered for CurieuzenAir, the citizen survey on air quality in the capital. That is almost double the number of measuring kits available. ULB and the urban movement BRAL, two of the project’s driving forces, […]


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Enora inaugurates Belgium’s largest CNG gas station in Leuze
Hilde Van Raemdonck Posted On June 21, 2021


Last Friday, Walloon renewable energy provider Enora, transport company Fockedey, and vehicle manufacturer Iveco inaugurated Belgium’s largest gas station in the industrial park Leuze Europe in Leuze-en-Hainaut. Ten trucks can refuel simultaneously in the new CNG gas station. Compressed Natural […]


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Guides du Routard: ‘bicycle touring in France to explode this summer’
Félix Bouland Posted On June 18, 2021


The pandemic and the growing interest in electric bicycles should lead to the growth of bike tourism – or bicycle touring – this summer in France. The lack of foreign tourists should be compensated by the French people’s need for […]


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Judges condemn flawed Belgian climate policy
Luc Joris Posted On June 18, 2021


The Brussels Court of First Instance has condemned Thursday the Belgian authorities for negligence in their climate policy. It reckons that Belgian environment policy violates the legal duty of care and human right. The non-profit organization Klimaatzaak (Climate Case) went […]


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Bolt comes to Brussels with 1 100 e-scooters
Luc Joris Posted On June 17, 2021


The Estonian micro-mobility company Bolt is launching a fleet of 1 100 shared e-scooters in the 19 municipalities of the Brussels Region. The company announced this on Thursday in a press release. In the coming weeks and months, Bolt wants […]


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Avere and EV Belgium continue together
Gert Verhoeven Posted On June 16, 2021


EV Belgium is the new name of the cooperation between AVERE and EV Belgium. It now unites users of electric vehicles and companies that provide services within this growing sector. Both organizations join forces to make electric driving more attractive. […]


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Dutch ANWB sells green energy at cost price
Hilde Van Raemdonck Posted On June 16, 2021


On Tuesday, ANWB, the Dutch organization for traffic and tourism, presented ANWB Energie, a pilot project cooperating with energy provider EnergyZero. ANWB Energie sells green electricity and gas from the Netherlands at cost price. Subscribers all pay the same fair […]


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Paris launches motorbike parking charges
Gert Verhoeven Posted On June 16, 2021


The Mayor of Paris has just announced new parking rates. Not only will cars pay more, but motorized two-wheelers will also have to pay (heavily) for a parking space from 2022 onward. Only electrically powered vehicles will be spared. With […]


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BMW starts hydrogen X5 testing
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 16, 2021


The BMW Group is beginning to test near-standard vehicles with a hydrogen fuel cell drive train on everyday European roads. Prototypes of the BMW i Hydrogen NEXT will examine how effectively the CO2-free drive train, model-specific chassis technology, and vehicle […]


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Eneco wants to become climate-neutral by 2035
Hilde Van Raemdonck Posted On June 16, 2021


The Dutch gas and electricity provider, Eneco, wants to become climate-neutral by 2035  and limit global warming to 1,5 degrees centigrade. However, the company feels responsible for the next generations, and on Tuesday, it presented its One Planet Plan with […]


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Car and truck industry slowly turn to ‘green steel’
Joris Van Roy Posted On June 16, 2021


After Swedish-French truck maker Volvo Group and Mercedes-Benz cars announcing they will use ‘fossil-free’ produced steel for their vehicles in the future, Volvo Cars also takes the slow turn to ‘green steel’. Like Volvo Group, the carmaker now has made […]


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Mercedes-Benz eActros world premiere on June 30th
Joris Van Roy Posted On June 16, 2021


After two years of intensive testing, Mercedes-Benz Trucks says it’s ready to launch its first serial produced battery-electric truck, the eActros, in a world premiere on June 30th. Actual production will start in the second half of this year at […]


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Toyota to be carbon neutral in 2035
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 15, 2021


The Japanese car manufacturer Toyota, which has become the world’s number one again, has announced that it wants to be carbon neutral in its production as of 2035. Until now, 2050 had always been the target date. During an online […]


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Solar bike race over 10 000 km to traverse Europe
Hilde Van Raemdonck Posted On June 14, 2021


Some forty cyclists are planning to traverse Europe by solar bikes over a distance of 10 000 km. One-quarter of them are Belgians. The departure of the so-called ‘Sun Trip Europe 2021’ is officially planned in Brussels on June 16th. […]


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Port of Antwerp to invest €40 million in bicycle infrastructure
Hilde Van Raemdonck Posted On June 11, 2021


In the coming ten years, the port of Antwerp is planning to invest more than 40 million euros in bicycle infrastructure in and around the harbor. Mobility needs to improve and all companies in the neighborhood have to be easily […]


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Hyperloop linking Antwerp-Brussels in six minutes?
Joris Van Roy Posted On June 11, 2021


If Flanders considered investing in a hyperloop system, a link between Antwerp and Brussels in barely six minutes would be a serious candidate, with extensions to Paris and Amsterdam. Those cities could be only 61 minutes apart this way. The […]


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Dieselgate France: VW and Stellantis also under investigation (update)
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 11, 2021


After Renault, on Tuesday, Volkswagen and Stellantis have also been put under investigation by the French office for the repression of fraud (DGCCRF). The investigation has the same subject: “fraud of merchandise that could endanger the health of men or […]


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Shell boss to accelerate ‘greening’ after judgement
Hilde Van Raemdonck Posted On June 10, 2021


Oil giant Shell has made the promise to accelerate its strategy to become more sustainable. In a declaration, CEO Ben van Beurden says not to avoid the challenges the company is facing. However, he’s still surprised to be the only […]


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VW injects another €500 million in battery partner Northvolt
Joris Van Roy Posted On June 10, 2021


German carmaker Volkswagen has injected another 509 million euros ($620 million) in its Swedish battery partner Northvolt, it announced on Wednesday. Northvolt wants to upscale production and recycling of batteries, and VW aims at less dependency from Chinese suppliers for […]


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Dieselgate: Renault under fire in France
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 9, 2021


The emission fraud scandal dieselgate isn’t gone yet. On Tuesday, the French manufacturer Renault has been put under investigation in its home country. Meanwhile, the former boss of the VW Group, initiator of the scandal, has been paying €11 million […]


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NMBS/SNCB presents ambitious bicycle strategy
Hilde Van Raemdonck Posted On June 9, 2021


More and more people want to travel by train and take their bicycles with them, especially during holidays and weekends. NMBS/SNCB, therefore, has decided to provide 600 additional bicycle spaces on trains to popular destinations like the seaside or The […]


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Multiobus pioneers with twelve e-buses for De Lijn
Joris Van Roy Posted On June 8, 2021


Multiobus in Tienen, a group of private bus companies who joined forces some years ago scaling up to prepare for the future, shows the Flemish public transport company it is working for as a subcontractor how you can actually run […]


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Walk Brussels stands up for pedestrians in Belgian capital
Hilde Van Raemdonck Posted On June 8, 2021


This weekend, all Brussels pedestrians will be invited to ‘Join the Walk’ and participate in the new pedestrian dynamics in the capital. The future pedestrian platform Walk Brussels will interrogate all participants about their city’s pedestrian policy spearheads. The initiative […]


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CBS: ‘75% of Dutch citizens worried about climate change’
Hilde Van Raemdonck Posted On June 7, 2021


The majority of Dutch citizens (75%) are worried about the consequences of climate change. That is what CBS, the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics, announced last week. Most of them are particularly worried for the next generations. They want more […]


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First multimodal hydrogen filling station opens in Antwerp
Luc Joris Posted On June 4, 2021


Near the Port House on the Antwerp Eilandje, the company CMB has opened a multimodal hydrogen filling station on the border of the city and the port. According to CMB, an Antwerp shipping company that focuses on hydrogen solutions for […]


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EU court: Germany did too little against dirty air in cities
Luc Joris Posted On June 4, 2021


The European Court of Justice has ruled that Germany has “systematically and persistently” exceeded the air pollution limit for nitrogen dioxide, a gas pollutant mainly produced by diesel engines, in cities like Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg between 2010 and 2016. […]


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Groen against widening the Brussels Ring Road
Luc Joris Posted On June 3, 2021


The political party Groen took action on Wednesday in Wemmel (Flemish Brabant) against the widening of the Ring Road around Brussels. “That’s not the solution to the traffic bottleneck around Brussels,” said Groen MPs Stijn Bex and Arnaud Verstraete. “A […]


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Optimile invests 8 million in extra charging points
Gert Verhoeven Posted On June 3, 2021


The greening of the company car market is gaining momentum because the Belgian Federal Government wants only 100% electric vehicles to be (fully) tax-deductible from 2026 onwards. To achieve this, there will be a need for a lot of additional […]


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Ghent residential area opens ‘virtual power station’ to save electricity
Luc Joris Posted On June 3, 2021


A ‘virtual power station’ has been opened in Ghent to allow residents to save electricity. The Nieuwe Dokken residential area is one of the first in Belgium, where several apartment buildings and a school, among others, are supplied with stored […]


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Hyve: six Belgian hydrogen pioneers join forces
Joris Van Roy Posted On June 1, 2021


Six Belgian pioneers in hydrogen production as a clean alternative energy source are joining forces in a consortium baptized ‘Hyve’. The goal is to integrate new electrolyzing techniques into green hydrogen production of gigawatt-scale in two years and actually use […]


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Flanders wants to boost goods transport by bike
Luc Joris Posted On May 31, 2021


Flemish Minister of Mobility, Lydia Peeters (Open Vld), wants to test, via pilot projects, how bicycles can be more easily used for goods transport. She has drawn up a regulatory framework for this. “Certainly, in an urban context, transport by […]


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