Emissions in Belgium are still going up and the Belgian climate policy is a disaster. The country is lagging behind in the new climate ranking of the European Union member states (Belgium 16th place of 28), and will probably not […]
On Thursday the EU decided that from 2023 onward, the share of palm oil in biofuels should go down. From 2030 palm oil should no longer be found in European car tanks at all. This decision does not go as […]
The jurisdictional authorities in Munich have announced that the CEO of car manufacturer Audi, Rupert Stadler, is personally under investigation in the wake of the so-called dieselgate scandal. To many analysts it came as a surprise that Audi CEO Rupert […]
The German government has ordered Daimler to proceed as quickly as possible to the recall of 774.000 Mercedes cars possibly having emissions-cheating software under the bonnet. The models concerned are the Vito van and some of the models C and […]
French Michelin researcher Agnès Poulbot received the award of ‘European Inventor of the Year’ for creating a truck tire that can ‘regenerate’ its tread. She shares the award with her deceased colleague Jacques Barraud. Less fuel and less rolling resistance […]
Uber jumps on the electric bike-sharing market in Germany. Uber’s top executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, announced it on Wednesday at a conference in Berlin. Uber will introduce its electric bike-sharing program this summer in Berlin. It will then be extended to […]
Five months is too short to draw conclusions, but the evolution of the Belgian car market since the beginning of the year can be significant for things to come. First of all, and against all expectations, the Belgian car market […]
ACEA, the umbrella federation of European car manufacturers, asks the EU for a ‘reality check’ on the eve of the electric car. It’s not enough that manufactures are offering electric cars, the consumers must be financially able and willing to […]
Car manufacturer PSA Group has announced preparing itself to withdraw from Iran, becoming the second large French company (after Total) to concede to the threat of American sanctions. PSA announced that it has “started with the suspension of its joint […]
The Transport Commission of the European Parliament has agreed on Monday with a series of measures to tackle social dumping in the transport sector. Truckers will be paid according to their home country rates for international transport, but at the […]
French car maker groups Renault and PSA (Citroën-Peugeot) kept prices of their spare parts since the year 2006 artificially high, with an average of 15% but sometimes up to more than double the real value. They used the same smart […]
President Trump of the US is now aiming his protectionist anger toward the (importing) car industry. He has asked the American Department of Commerce to open an inquiry on the import of cars, trucks and parts as possibly menacing the […]
The Transport Commission of the European Parliament has voted on Thursday a new measure making it nearly impossible for foreign drivers to escape the fines when abroad, like for entering a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) or other infringements caught on […]
From June 1st ride-hailing company Uber is going to offer its 150.000 European drivers a free work insurance, covering events like injuries, sickness or ‘family events’, like child-birth. Its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced this on Wednesday at the ‘Tech for […]
Hamburg is the first German city to issue a partial ban on diesel cars that don’t comply with the Euro 6 standard, from May 31 on two major traffic axes in the Altona-Nord district. After a long legal battle cities […]
Out of thirteen cities tested for sustainable mobility, Brussels ends up at the 8th place. It’s let down by its lagging public transport, an excess of cars and a lack of bicycles. According to Greenpeace, Brussels should fall back at […]
The EU Commission is suing France, Germany, UK, Italy, Hungary and Romania for failing to meet their air quality obligations. But those countries and their capitals lash on the EU’s double speech. According to the European Environment Agency (EPA), small […]
If it were up to Europe, bus drivers would soon be confronted with a harder and busier work schedule. The proposed change in the working conditions of professional bus drivers doesn’t make the unions happy. It’s one of the reasons […]
The European Commission proposes to impose car, bus and truck manufacturers a list of advanced safety features to become an obligatory standard in the future, going from drowsiness detectors to automatic emergency braking and pre-wiring for an alcolock. Goal is […]
The Belgian Professional Union for Transport and Logistic (UPTR) is pleased with new truck emission reduction standards, but regrets somehow Europe didn’t go further than a 15% reduction in CO2 by 2025, in stead of he 24% the sector proposed […]
European Commissioner for Energy, Maros Sefcovic, has introduced an ambitious plan to make mobility in Europe cleaner, greener and safer by 2030, with stricter emission standards, gigantic battery plants and more safety technology on board of all vehicles. 54 million […]
Brussels, Paris and Madrid are taking the EU Commission to court for not respecting the nitrogen emission legislation and having given in to automotive lobbies. The three European capitals are trying to bring a joint action against the European regulation […]
The European Commission has created new emission standards for trucks. By 2025 they will have to cut their CO2 emissions with at least 15%. This reduction should double by the year 2030. On Thursday the European Commission will put forward […]
The Belgian police trade union, SLFP/VSOA, is worried that the emergency call system ‘eCall’ – mandatory on all new cars since April – will saturate the emergency lines. After a terrible mishap leading to the death of a woman in […]
The conflict between the PSA top direction and the Opel workers and German unions is lasting longer and longer. It signals the big gap between two negotiating cultures on the left or right of the river Rhine. The plan of […]
The first submarine high-tension cable connecting the Belgian and British electricity grid is about to land on the beach at Zeebrugge these days. The 140 km long ‘Nemo’ cable has a capacity of 1.000 megawatt, somewhat the output of a […]
Hungary, where 75% of the total car fleet of 3,5 million are second-hand cars, is ‘flooded’ with dirty diesels from Western European countries where those diesel cars are no longer allowed in certain cities. In 2017 Hungary imported 155.414 used […]
The Dutch bureau for technical advice, Sweco, has done a survey lately on how to go on holiday in Europe with an electric car. The problems in many EU countries are still huge. The Sweco team went for a fictive […]
Audi has revealed some new details about its e-tron, to be built in the Brussels Audi factory starting this year. It will have a 95 kWh battery, build in-house in Brussels, able to be (DC) charged at 150 kW. A […]
Thirty-five Belgium-based companies with big names like Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé and Colruyt, but also smaller transport companies and transport federation Febetra, have written a letter to Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, asking him to force truck manufacturers to […]
EU Commissioner for Consumer Rights Vera Jourova wants to weapon consumers in every member state with the possibility of class actions against companies misleading them, like in the Volkswagen dieselgate scandal. The latter won’t be targeted though, as the new […]
As a second step in the financial restructuring of the Russian car manufacturer Avtovaz (part of the Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi) there is a recapitalization for an amount of 107 billion roubles (1,3 billion euro). Lada being the number one car brand […]
With the technical face-lift of the popular Outlander PHEV (plug-in hybrid vehicle) Mitsubishi has announced to aim for an entire energy network, including home, office, loading station and the grid. The substantial technical update of the Outlander PHEV announced at […]
According to research by NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) in Brussels, East-European country Bulgaria, current president of the European Union, is welcoming happily West-Europe’s most polluting second-hand diesels. More than 30.000 in 2017. This while on Tuesday Sofia is guest […]
Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank Group, is aiming at Europe now. He wants to become the Warren Buffet of the tech world and does everything to achieve this ambitious goal. New forms of mobility has its special interest, as he […]
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