American electric car company, Tesla, has started judicial procedures against the Canadian state of Ontario because the new government decided to stop incentives for the purchase of Electric Vehicles (EV). Clients can still benefit from a discount until mid-September but […]
Why not building a ‘global grid’ to get the green electricity on those places where it can be produced cheaply in abundance? Like a giant wind farm in Greenland, connected with a ‘super cable’ to Europe on one end and […]
For the first seven months of this year, the sales of electrically driven second-hand cars rose 113% in the Netherlands, compared to the same period last year. This could be a significant boost in the transition to electric everyone is […]
The Munich-based mobility provider, Sono Motors, has announced a next test tour of its Sion ‘solar’ electric car throughout 18 cities in Germany and the Netherlands, starting the 1st of September in Germany and the 7th in the Netherlands. After […]
The artificial island project for storm protection in front of the coast of Knokke-Heist (Belgium) has been put on hold. Federal Secretary to the North Sea, Philippe De Backer, says it doesn’t meet with the marine space development plan. Flemish […]
In a survey Flemish mobility club VAB asked 2.000 Flemish consumers about their interest in electric cars. This is still very low and the reason is their distrust of the Flemish government: they fear that it might change the present […]
Foreign drivers, who ignore the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in Antwerp or enter a road closed for cars, a so-called ‘snip’, are rarely fined because the software system fails. This way the city of Ghent lost approximately 675.000 euro in […]
GPS trackers are a common tool for companies with large car parks. Recently the system demonstrated other possibilities: monitoring the misuse of a car by a third party. GPS trackers are mainly used by companies with cars/lorries/trucks which are always […]
The city of Brussels has been rapped on its knuckles by a European study focusing on the air pollution in touristic cities. The whole territory of the Brussels Metropolitan Region – 19 municipalities – is a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) […]
In comparison with 4 years ago the second-hand market in Belgium has risen 17% in 2017. The total value of sold second-hand cars was for the first time more than 2 billion euro in Belgium in 2017. At the same […]
Six weeks after the introduction of the shared electric Troty scooters in Brussels, the city of Liège starts with its own Troty fleet. The red and black shared scooters can achieve a 25 kph speed, have a range of 40 […]
Soon there will be a new car brand on the market: Polestar. CEO Thomas Ingenlath has high hopes for the brand: “We don’t want to kill Tesla, our first aim is to expand the until now poor choice of electric […]
Since last year, transport companies can call on subsidies from the Flemish government to make their new trucks safer and more ecological. Only a quarter of the 36 million euro subsidy budget was applied for last year. Part of this […]
Daimler CEO, Dieter Zetsche, has announced that Daimler daughter, Smart, will go full electric and sell electrically driven cars from 2020 onward. A brave decision for a manufacturer who hasn’t made money since 20 years. It means that only the […]
Porsche CEO, Oliver Blume, has declared that Porsche wants to save 6 billion euro within the next 3 years because of the lower benefit margins on electric cars. In an interview with the Stuttgarter Zeitung and the Stuttgarter Nachrichten Blume […]
Since the controversial plans for the redevelopment and widening of the Brussels Ring (part North) came up in 2014, opinions are still dived on whether it will be a broadening or an optimization. Recently, the Flemish Government did organize a public consultation, […]
Hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO), biodiesel based on deep-frying oil treated with hydrogen, can reduce CO2 emissions of a diesel car by 90%, Johan Mattart, director of the Belgian federation of fuel traders Brafco stated in an opinion article in De […]
After several other Japanese manufacturers Mazda, Suzuki and Yamaha have confessed to be falsifying testing procedures on emissions and consumption. Apparently a great number of Japanese car manufacturers have been manipulating test procedures. After the discovery of test procedure fraud […]
More and more larger Dutch companies offer a yearly subscription card (OV chip card) for public transport to all their employees instead of a lease car. VodafoneZiggo is the latest in the row. VodafoneZiggo, a merger of the Dutch Vodafone […]
In the whole of the Benelux numerous Mercedes buyers are waiting for their Mercedes to be finally delivered. The cars are there, the right homologation papers aren’t. On the first of September, last year the new European emission rules were […]
The construction of the largest wind farm (Norther) in the North Sea finally began yesterday. The concession was applied for some ten years ago. Norther has 44 wind turbines and will supply electricity to 400.000 households. 23 km of cable […]
In France, the cities of Paris, Lyon, Annecy, Strasbourg and the Isère department have put up driving restrictions starting from yesterday because of exceeding pollution levels caused by the heat wave. Cars registered before 1996 aren’t allowed anywhere. Paris The […]
According to a new study of the London Queen Mary University there seems to be a clear relation between even a small amount of air pollution and changes in the structure of the heart. Earlier studies showed that the effect […]
Belgium and ten other member states are asking Europe to ‘ramp up’ the official limit of NOx (nitrogen oxide) emissions set for the several countries, so that they will still be able to meet them. Main arguments are the on […]
Donald Trump has pushed through his intention to scrap the strict car emission standards for US cars, introduced by Barak Obama. This was confirmed by both the environmental agency, EPA, and the road safety agency, NHTSA, on Thursday. California’s governor, […]
The Dutch operator, PitPoint, is granted a concession for the installation and operation of a network of charging stations for electric vehicles (EV) in Brussels. Hundred terminals will be installed in the coming months. The concession runs until the end […]
The faculty Industrial Engineer Sciences of the KU Leuven is working on a universal charger for electric bicycles at the technology campus in Ghent. Recently the Austrian company, Bike Energy, launched such a charger, but the engineers in Leuven want […]
The Volkswagen Group will probably be forced to recall up to 124.000 hybrid and electric cars for using cadmium, a carcinogenic metal used in the batteries of the cars, as the company announced on Tuesday. Cadmium in battery An unidentified […]
Dutch electric charging station company, Fastned, is looking for another 30 million euro of capital to finance a rapid growth of its network. Fastned is one of the pioneers and – like Tesla – burning money faster than it can […]
Shared mobility. Most people associate the term with left behind bicycles, failing municipal projects and confusion… but free-floating electric scooters seem to be an – even profitable – solution for big cities. Paris – with more than 5.000 electric scooters […]
The Brussels regional government is sending the elaborated new car tax proposals from its task force ‘back to sender’ to redo his homework and make ‘social corrections’ after fierce opposition within the majority, with the socialist party PS in front. […]
Since last weekend, most of the major connecting roads between the eastern and western parts of Amsterdam’s city centre have been closed to motor vehicles. So through-traffic in the city is being cut and is guided mostly around the city. […]
An entirely new, energy-positive city. That is the challenge Norwegian architects face in constructing Oslo Airport City, a city that will be powered entirely by renewable energy. The city will rise next to Oslo Airport, which is already considered to […]
The city of Antwerp has indicated the Antwerp proces servers, Modero Gerechtsdeurwaarders Antwerpen, to go after foreign car drivers fined for entering Antwerp’s Low Emission Zone with a polluting car. People doing so risk a 125 euro fine. The city […]
Estonia became the first European country to offer free bus travel across almost the whole country. With this service, the country hopes to limit rural depopulation and fossil fuel consumption. Popular “There are many cities and regions in Europe where […]
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