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On Friday German car makers BMW and Daimler announced an investment of one billion euro in their merged mobility services. Actually it concerns five joint ventures: Reach Now (mobility services), Charge Now (charging of EVs), Free Now (taxi ride-hailing), Park […]
Bram Schot, the CEO of car manufacturer Audi wants to save 15 billion euro the next 4 years,. This means scrapping engines, managerial posts and the night-shift in the Ingolstadt plant. Schot on the other hand thinks by 2023 25% […]
Hype expands its fleet of 100 (Hyundai) hydrogen taxis in Paris on Friday, with 500 Toyota Mirai by the end of next year. That’s the first goal of HysetCo, a joint-venture set up by taxi company STEP (Hype), Toyota France, […]
Herbert Diess, CEO of the VW Group, is worried about the possibility of 25% import taxes on foreign cars in the US, the so-called Trump tax. It could cost VW at least 13% of its expected benefits every year. “It’s […]
The electricity networks have major problems keeping up with the growth due to diversification of the power supply and rising demand. That is what Ingrid Thijssen, CEO of the Dutch network administrator Alliander, says. She warns against an imminent capacity […]
The Dutch national Planning Bureau (PlanBureau voor de Leefomgeving, PBL) was considered an impartial, all-knowing referee. Severe miscalculations of the boom of electric cars in the Netherlands among others, costing double the estimates, put it now under fire. On the […]
Supported by D’Ieteren’s Lab Box, Lizy shakes the car leasing sector up with its new online platform. The young Belgian start-up offers low-mileage used cars for short-term lease at 15 to 40% cheaper rates than conventional leases. In Belgium, leasing […]
After dieselgate, the VW Group completely changed course. With its special electric car platform (MEB) it not only serves a lot of new electric cars inside the group, it also wants to conquer the world by offering it to other […]
With seven out of ten Formula One teams based in the UK, experts are wondering what effect Brexit will have on their performance. Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolf, worries about longer customs clearances that could affect the logistics. Others worry […]
France and Germany are launching a joint offensive to change European competition rules and allow ‘European champions’ to face industrial giants worldwide. Meanwhile, the European Parliament has drawn the red lines for negotiations with the US in the looming trade […]
With the addition of Opel two years ago, PSA now stands in second place on the Belgian sales podium with a 18,89% market share. CEO of the Benelux branch, Stéphane Levi, gives his opinion on the group’s future, social tensions, […]
Limbourg climate company, Nuhma, and energy provider, RWE, want to connect the Dutch gas power plant in Maasbracht (the Netherlands) with the Belgian electricity grid. This way a blackout can be avoided when there is a lack of electricity in […]
Japanese car maker, Honda, is going to close its car plant in Swindon (UK) in 2021. 3.500 people are likely to lose their job. Honda says the decision to close its only European factory is driven by a slow-down of […]
Last Saturday, British regional airline Flybmi announced it goes into liquidation. The airline cancelled all flights, including the ones from Brussels Airport, from one day to another. Reason: high fuel and carbon costs, EU decisions and the ‘agonizing uncertainty’ of […]
Febiac, Belgian and Luxembourg car and two-wheeler federation, and Renta, Belgian Federation of Vehicle Rental Companies, launch a new comprehensive knowledge platform on which they want to inform individuals, professionals and journalists about the major challenge of a rapidly evolving […]
After twelve years, the curtain falls on the Airbus A380, one of Europe’s most daring industrial projects. On Thursday, at a press conference, Airbus CEO, Tom Enders, admitted that there was no longer a market for such a mega plane. […]
Hydrogen is the fuel of the future. A consortium of companies will use discarded gas platforms in the North Sea to convert wind energy into hydrogen. This way green electricity can be stored without batteries and transported cheaply. The future […]
The threat of a US import tax of 25% or more on European cars is one step closer to self-fulfilling. A study by the Ministry of Commerce has concluded those cars ‘are a national security threat’ to the United States. […]
After visiting the handling operations of the first car carrier arriving at the Port of Zeebrugge, Elon Musk has decided Tesla will handle the Model 3s itself to speed up operations. Demand is too high and speed of delivering is crucial. […]
According to a source close to the dossier, General Motors and Amazon could be buying parts of Rivian, the electric car company that presented an electric SUV and a pickup truck at the last L.A. Auto Show. Nones have yet […]
The French state has announced it will invest 700 billion euro the next five years in the development of a next generation battery industry in Europe, the so-called ‘the Airbus of batteries’. In December, France and Germany have signed a […]
Former Alliance President, Carlos Ghosn, under custody in a Japanese jail since mid-November, chooses other defense lawyers. Meanwhile, the board of Renault scraps the compensation payments linked to his non competition clause and the validation of stock actions he received […]
American car maker Ford, employing 13.000 people in the UK, increases pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May to avoid a ‘catastrophic hard Brexit’. All options are open, including a transfer of production to the continent. The European car manufacturers’ federation […]
Flemish IT service provider, Cegeka, is joining the battle for the licenses of the ultra-fast internet of the future, 5G. The latter is key for the autonomous car, but also for numerous other applications, like ‘smart cities’, health care to […]
Benelux and France will fall far behind the targets the European Union has defined for the community in 2020. In 2007, the European Union promised to reduce CO2 emissions with 20% by 2020, to use 20% of renewable energy by […]
Given the stringent CO2 emission rules in Europe, manufacturers have no choice than to roll out electrification. It requires huge investments in a difficult market and it’s not sure if the customer can be convinced so quickly. In the next […]
According to data from the buses and coaches Belgian Federation (FBAA), the coach travel sector is growing with a tourism trip market share of 7,2% in 2017. Stays of more than three nights and grouped tours represent the major part […]
The Belgian planning agency (Planbureau) sees only 12% full electric cars in 2040. The Dutch counterpart for the environment, Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving, underestimated the growth of the electric car in the Netherlands already two times. Politics are running behind. […]
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) agreed two years ago that by 2020 a new standard for sulphur limit for boat fuel would be applied worldwide, dropping from 3,5% to 0,5% outside of designated Emission Control Areas. The University of Delaware […]
Although global air traffic is growing by 6 to 7% annually due to increasing prosperity, aviation is responsible for only 2 to 3% of CO2 emissions produced by humans”, says Joris Melkert, aviation expert at TU Delft University. Sustainable kerosene […]
On its Belgium site in Ghent, steel industry giant ArcelorMittal is building a CO2 transformation plant. By 2021, 10% of gases produced by the high furnaces will be transformed into 80 million litres of biofuel. This amounts to the same […]
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has serious problems. In the third quarter of its 2018/2019 fiscal year it lost 3,8 billion euro because it executed also a depreciation of 3,1 billion euro. Even without this depreciation there is still a loss […]
LeasePlan and the British investment company, TDR, are scanning the market for a potential buyer for its CarNext second-hand business. At least according to anonymous sources quoted by Dutch financial newspaper, Financieele Dagblad, on Friday. Analysts valued this ‘crown jewel’ […]
The recent fusion between the mobility activities of BMW and Daimler has a big influence on the Chauffeur Privé platform too. As from now the Daimler co-owned platform (bought a year ago) is named Kapten and it wants to conquer […]
Like a pop star announced to visit Belgium, the news that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was to inspect the first shipment of 1.000 Model 3 for Europe in the harbour of Zeebruge, caused a lot of ‘excitement’ by his ‘fans’. […]
