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The European Commission has approved Belgium’s € 5,9 billion post-Covid recovery plan. It also pointed out the ambitious renewable aspect of the plan, allocating 50% of the resources to climate objectives while Europe only planned for 37%. A total of […]
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 […]
Porsche and Customcells have now completed the previously announced formation of their joint venture to produce high-performance battery cells. The JV, Cellforce Group GmbH, will be based in Tübingen, Germany. Meanwhile, it will also buy new battery cells from Varta. […]
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 […]
The number of traffic deaths in 2020 went down spectacularly. According to calculations of the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), in the past ten years, it decreased by 37%. In 2020, 18 844 people died on European roads, 3 900 […]
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 […]
The French-Belgian high-speed railway company Thalys, which has been badly hit by the health crisis sees itself on the right track now. It celebrated on Monday the 175th anniversary of the Paris-Brussels rail link. Thalys wants to bounce back with […]
Chinese electric carmaker NIO announced it has obtained the European Whole Vehicle Type Approval (EWVTA) for its flagship electric SUV, the NIO ES8, in its adapted EU version. NIO will start importing the car in Norway in September. In 2022, […]
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. […]
Is range anxiety a myth? It seems so, according to a new survey conducted by Nissan. EV-drivers tend to drive even more kilometers a year than drivers with an ICE car. The Japanese carmaker interviewed more than 7 000 European […]
European car and truck manufacturers federation ACEA has commissioned a study with the German Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI to map out the precise locations for truck stops with charging facilities needed in Europe for future electric […]
The Leuven-based company OTRA Solutions is launching a digital platform for drivers, companies, and parking operators in the transport sector. The real-time parking tool has to offer a solution for the increasing parking problems along the major European traffic axes. […]
Daimler will continue to invest in its largest market, China. Meanwhile, in Belgium, Spain, and the UK, it tries to eliminate the dealers it owns and manages itself. In China, the biggest car market in the world, demand for luxury […]
Early May 2021, Nissan announced that it opened its order books in the Japanese home market for the all-electric powered SUV. However, today, it has become clear that it cannot meet the proposed deadlines due to shortages in the chip […]
Before the European Transport Ministers’ reunion in Kirchberg, Belgian Mobility Minister Georges Gilkinet (Ecolo) and his Luxembourg counterpart François Bausch (Les Verts) have announced progress on the Brussels-Luxembourg rail connection. Both have written to Europe to ask for a € […]
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. […]
Gathered at the Athus Container Terminal (TCA), European Commissioner in charge of Transports, Adina Vãlean, and Belgian Mobility Minister, Georges Gilkinet (Ecolo), have reiterated their common ambition to make rail freight grow. The objective is to increase volume by 50% […]
The EU members are hesitating to go all the way with Frans Timmermans’ new climate plan, the EU Green Deal. The exact repartition of the climate efforts and the fear for their social impact play an important role. Member States […]
After some delay due to the pandemic, the Nightjet finally arrived in Brussels and Amsterdam this week, rolling in from Vienna overnight. This night train is an initiative of the public Austrian railroad company ÖBB that has an agreement with […]
On Wednesday, automotive group Stellantis has informed all its European dealerships, distribution services, and sales agents that their contracts would be terminated on May 31st. The 14-brand strong group has given them two years’ notice as it plans to build […]
In April 2021, electrified vehicles represented 12% of the new car market in France. It’s the sixth month in a row that this figure lies higher than 10%. Concerning charging infrastructure, France is number three in Europe. Last month, 21 […]
The European Commission has prepared an ambitious action plan aiming at zero pollution in the air, water, and soil by 2050. It is part of the Green Deal to make the European economy more sustainable. The plan sets an integrated […]
The headquarters of Mazda Japan is calling back home its European President and CEO Yasuhiro Aoyama, a move which has set in motion a carousel in the management structure. This also led to a new Managing Director, Tim Bosmans (pictured), […]
Falling battery prices and the development of optimized EV platforms will make full-electric sedans and SUVs from the C and D segments as cheap to produce as the versions with an internal combustion engine by 2025-2026. Small cars from the […]
The Port of Antwerp will lead an international consortium with 46 partners to make the European ports ‘greener’. ‘Pioneers’, as the project is called, will get a 25-million-euros subsidy from the European Horizon 2020 program to develop solutions against greenhouse […]
French Air Liquide, Colruyt’s DATS 24, and Port of Antwerp announced their intention to deploy up to 300 hydrogen-driven fuel cell trucks by 2025 and establish six high-capacity hydrogen fueling stations. The initiative is part of the HyTrucks project, a […]
Since 2015, Genesis has been a separate brand within the Hyundai Group, of which Kia is also a part. On Wednesday, the brand announced that the luxury brand wants to commercialize its first product on the Old Continent this summer, […]
According to the specialist German magazine ‘AutomobilWoche’, sources close to the company management have confirmed that the Tesla factory planned near Berlin will be delayed by up to six months. The planned production start of July 2021 is no longer […]
In a new study, NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) says, “e-fuels in cars make no economic or environmental sense.” Calculating the total cost of ownership (TOC) of battery-electric cars (BEV) against cars with a conventional combustion engine, burning e-fuel made […]
According to ACEA’s Tax Guide 2021, a 350+ pages report just published, motor vehicles account for €398,4 billion in tax revenues in Europe’s key markets, a 3% rise compared to last year. Belgium takes the cake with the highest taxes […]
According to a new YouGov poll for Transport & Environment, two-thirds of European citizens want their country to have more ambitious national climate targets. The poll was conducted in 12 European countries. The survey reveals that 68% of respondents want […]
In an open call to the lawmakers of the European Union, 27 companies ask to phase out sales of new cars with an internal combustion engine (ICE) – including plug-in hybrids – no later than 2035. Among them, some big […]
The ACEA figures of new passenger car registrations in the European Union show that the battery-electric car (BEV) is pushing ahead in Q1 of 2021 (+59,1%). The ICE car keeps losing terrain with diesel sinking (-20,1%) to an all-time low […]
On Tuesday night, the European Parliament and the 27 member states reached at last an agreement on a binding CO2 reduction of 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 as a necessary milestone to reach climate neutrality by 2050. Initially, the […]
Last year, about 18 800 people lost their lives on European roads: 4 000 or 17% less than in 2019. Belgium (-22%) is one of the ten member states with a decline of more than 20%. According to the European […]
