Newmobility.news is a trade mark of B2BNews Agency®, a fully independent spin-off of Belga News Agency, which focuses on bespoke business-to-business news.
A service for professionals in the rapidly changing mobility domain, providing a daily overview and synthesis of the top new mobility stories of the Belgian, Dutch and international press. Enriched with useful links to the original sources and additional information, archived stories and exclusive new content and critical analysis by our expert journalists. Featuring also a full searchable archive of more than 1.750+ (and growing) articles on the broad domain of mobility.
The Leuven start-up, IVEX, raises €1,2 million in capital. It will use this to invest in its safety control software for autonomous cars. The company’s technology validates the chosen path of autonomous cars. The investors are PMV, Noshaq, Marc Jacobs, […]
The felling of a part of the German forest in which Tesla’s European giga-factory is to be located has been halted. The environmental movement ‘Grüne Liga Brandenburg’ has gone to court because Tesla already felled trees without a building permit. […]
Despite its commercial success, Airbus recorded a net loss in 2019. This result is linked to exceptional costs, including fines in a corruption case for the A400M military transport aircraft. Faced with its American competitor Boeing, in 737 MAX crisis, […]
Since his venue to power, VW Group CEO, Herbert Diess, has been working on a plan to give each brand of the group a specific geographical responsibility and a trade mission. Lately, it has become clear where he wants them […]
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) experienced a clear recovery at the end of 2019, a difficult year for the group. This allows the Italian-American manufacturer to confirm its objectives for this year. FCA also reached an agreement with the Italian tax […]
Volvo CEO, Hakan Samuelsson, was in Brussels on Thursday to comment on the good results of the Swedish/Chinese car manufacturer last year. The Ghent factory is playing a major part in these positive evolutions. In 2019, Volvo sold 705.000 cars […]
Flemish Minister of Mobility, Lydia Peeters (Open VLD), is allocating 10 million over the next five years to rebuild and better secure highway car parks. In the first phase, seven car parks will be constructed, but N-VA urges the minister […]
Flemish newspaper De Morgen interviewed Frans Timmermans, ‘Mister climate’ of the European Commission, about the European Green Deal. Timmermans does not see the Green Deal as a fixed plan, but rather as a guideline with the ultimate goal of climate […]
The Dutch car distributor Stern is in merger talks with its Swedish competitor Anders Hedin Group. While a merger is not certain yet, it could be beneficial. Both Groups’ activities are complementary, geographically, as well as in the automotive brands […]
Since Brexit was voted in 2016, the British car industry shrank 25%. Last year total car production was 1,3 million units, far away from the 2 million that were predicted only four years ago. Of course, the crisis in the […]
Advanced Metallurgical Group (AMG) wants to build a lithium plant in Germany. The aim is to prevent a shortage of batteries once the European production of electric cars is running at full speed. The German automotive world warned for such […]
While the price of cobalt has decreased due to an over-offer on the market, car manufacturers are nevertheless negotiating multi-year contracts to secure supplies. Tesla, for example, is negotiating with Glencore for its cobalt supply, like BMW already did. But […]
PSA subsidiary, Opel, will cut 2.100 additional jobs in Germany through a voluntary redundancy plan. Employees born before 1963 will be able to opt for early retirement. The agreement made with the trade unions should lead to “further, clear improvement […]
According to a study from the National Bank (BNB) on the economic flow between the three Regions in Belgium, no less than 85% of the country’s employees work in the Region they live in. On the other hand, Flanders sells […]
The European Commission has given seven countries the green light to support battery projects with 3,2 billion euros in subsidies. By doing this, it wants to stimulate the development of strong pan-European battery industry. The countries involved are Germany, France, […]
Volkswagen chooses Dresden as its second production site for its electric ID.3. Next autumn, the ‘Glass Factory’ will build its first ID.3. Now the electric Golf is being built in the building. In addition to car production, the striking factory […]
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA are in merger discussions which could create the fourth largest automotive group. The two groups themselves, on the other hand, refuse to “comment on market rumors”. However, after the merger with Opel, PSA said it […]
AB InBev has opened a new train connection in the port of Antwerp for the transport of its Stella Artois beer. The train runs from Katoen Natie’s warehouse on the right bank of the river Scheldt to the DP World […]
According to figures from Car-Pass, the number of second-hand cars imported in Belgium has doubled since 2015, from 6% then to 12% last September. It’s becoming difficult to find the right used gasoline car in Belgium, as the decline of […]
The two-yearly Frankfurter IAA Motorshow closed its doors last Sunday with a total of 560.000 visitors, 30% less than two years ago (810.000) and 40% less than in 2015 (932.000). Another sign of the crisis the German car industry is […]
The Belgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has a far-reaching emergency plan ready in case the Brexit leads to traffic chaos. There are filter blockades, forced traffic, and even closing borders. “The Brexit may bring extra traffic to the ports of […]
Although a hard Brexit scenario is on hold for the moment, the automotive and transport sectors will be hit the hardest if it hits. That’s what analysts of KBC Asset Management say. The Eurotunnel and airlines, like Ryanair, would take […]
The freight train operator, Lineas, is doubling the number of goods trains to ease the congestion caused by the Oosterweel works in Antwerp. This could double the number of trucks taken out of road traffic. “We want to prepare for […]
Automotive supplier Punch Powertrain wants to cut 188 of the 1.100 jobs it has in its factory near Sint-Truiden (east of Belgium). The producer of automatic gearboxes suffers from the decline of the Chinese car market. It was a turbulent […]
Everywhere in the world car manufacturers are preparing themselves for a bumpy ride. The German car industry is suffering; the neighboring countries are dragged with it; the big US manufacturers are building strategic reserves. The industrial activity in Germany shrinks, […]
The current economic climate with slow car sales is detrimental to Belgian automotive suppliers. According to technological industry federation Agoria, their turnover is down by 15% in the first semester, with 8 out of 10 suppliers affected. Belgium has 130 […]
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 […]
Volvo Cars has beaten its sales record in the second quarter of 2019. But meanwhile, the Chinese-owned Swedish car manufacturer saw its profitability decline, caused by prices under pressure and trade tariffs. Meanwhile, the last V40 rolls off the production […]
The crisis in the German automotive sector has a profound impact on Hungary. The country seems more dependent on German carmakers than Germany itself. Meanwhile, in Germany, PSA is planning 1.100 job cuts at Opel. It hopes to achieve this […]
Volvo Cars now has a direct goods train link between the Chinese city of Xi’an and its plant in Ghent. The train is used to transport cars to and from China. Besides being more ecologically friendly, the solution is both […]
The European car industry is happy with the free trade agreement between the EU and the Mercosur countries (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay). Lower import taxes for cars might boost the export of European cars to the region. At the […]
Trucks play an important role in Belgium’s mobility problem. There are a lot of trucks on the road, and many of them are empty, the rest only half full. A solution could be to load them more efficiently, but that’s […]
According to Raymond Gradus, professor of administration and economics at the Amsterdam University , it is much better for the environment to burn low-grade plastics in efficient incinerators instead of recycling them. As well the oceans as the CO2 emissions […]
Amazon leads a 575 million dollar investment round in Deliveroo. The UK food home delivery company wants to combat fierce competition by services like UberEats and Just Eat. It intends to install its own restaurant kitchens, expand its tech team, […]
US president, Donald Trump, has decided to delay raising import taxes on cars shipped from the EU and Japan. During the six month delay, he wants to renegotiate a deal for the automotive trade. If there is no deal, “the […]
Don't miss any important breaking news story, get them right into your mailbox every noon.
