Pascal Smet (sp.a), highly debated Brussels Minister for Mobility and Public Works, diabolized by the taxi sector and even by his own Minister President, wants to prime a new Brussels movement beyond party boundaries, for mobility but also broader ‘citizen’ […]
Recently newmobility.news was able to speak with Carlos Tavares, CEO of the PSA Group (Peugeot, Citroën, DS) that acquired also Opel last year. The most important message for him in the automotive world is: “You have to adapt yourself every […]
Alain Visser is a Belgian who tries to reshape the automotive world. We heard him already about his Lynk & Co project with Volvo Cars Gent building them for Europe, the fact of using a car and not owning it. […]
Miel Horsten, chairman of Renta, the Belgian federation of car rental companies, didn’t like the government’s ‘cash for car’ proposal at all, but is more positive about a mobility budget for employees. He pleads for clear rules as soon as […]
Peter Schwarzenbauer, member of the board at BMW and responsible for Mini, among other things, sees great opportunities for the E-Mini: “Mini is a car for the city, with the evolution we see now, I’m very optimistic about the electric […]
Denis Gorteman, CEO of Belgian car importer D’Ieteren, is confident that he can guarantee the residual value for customers buying a new diesel car today. “The diesel isn’t dead yet”, he declares. “Today a diesel car is still consuming some […]
At the Geneva International Motor Show we talked to Gerald Killmann, Vice President R&D at Toyota Europe. His statement is clear: hydrogen will happen, it is a necessity for the future. “The more renewable energy we get, the more hydrogen […]
Frank Van Gool, CEO at Renta, the Belgian Vehicle Rental Association, warns for an abrupt change in policy. “The number of diesel cars is also due to political choices in the past, you can’t change course too hastily…” Frank Van […]
Linda Jackson, CEO of Citroën is very clear on this: “If you have more women at the top of a manufacturer, you will get better cars.” An interview. There are not many women at the head of car manufacturers: in […]
On Monday 15th of January, Belgium’s major car importer D’Ieteren Auto spreads out its Poppy fleet of 350 free floating shared cars in Antwerp. 200 full electric VW e-Golf and 150 Audi A3 CNG. CEO Denis Gorteman remains rather ambitious […]
At the press day of the Brussels Motor Show (opening on Friday 12th of January until Sunday the 21st) L’Echo talked to Jean-Paul Renaux, CEO of Renault Benelux. He thinks that selling cars will slowly evolve to selling mobility. Still […]
That the autonomous car is coming is a fact and probably (hopefully) a cure for many mobility problems. That’s why traffic expert Pieter Morlion, co-founder of the Ghent Traffic Center (Verkeerscentrum Gent) urges the authorities to create a unique legal […]
In an interview with economical newspaper L’Echo, Belgian federal Minster of Mobility François Bellot (MR) says that at his age, he can speak “without mincing matters“. Like saying the “SNCB/NMBS has too many pen-pushers sitting at a desk and too […]
Former CEO of Brussels public transport company STIB/MIVB Alain Flausch leaves the Union of Public Transport which he has lead for 6 years. He is disappointed about Brussels and Belgium as a whole: “We should take other cities as an […]
Le Soir* – 04 Dec. 2017 Pagina 9 * Le Soir Bruxelles-Brabant, Le Soir Wallonie L’ancien patron de la Stib quitte l’Union des transports publics qu’il a dirigée pendant six ans. Il jette un regard désappointé sur Bruxelles et la […]
Since June 2017 the Belgian Association of Car Manufacturers and Importers (Febiac) has a new president. Phillippe Dehennin left BMW in 2016 and is now the head of what is commonly known as the “car lobby” in Belgium. He is […]
Three years after dieselgate burst out, what has really changed? “I wouldn’t buy a Volkswagen anymore”, says EU Commissioner for Industry Elzbieta Bienkowska (53) in an interview with Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. She grew up in communist Poland, being the […]
With the sale of 40% of its Belron business, Belgium’s largest car importer, family concern D’Ieteren, is sitting on a pile of one billion euro in cash. Asked by newspapers L’Echo and De Tijd what D’Ieteren is going to do […]
At the age of 59, Toyota’s no.2 worldwide is French, native from Lille, close to the Belgian border: Didier Leroy. He saw Toyota predicting the switch from the combustion engine to electric 15 years ago. Financial newspaper L’Echo interviewed the […]
Asked by weekly Deze Week for his vision of the future of mobility upon 2050, Flemish Minister of Mobility Ben Weyts (NV-A) sees less private car ownership, equal or more car usage through sharing and still a lot of traffic […]
CEO of the Belgian Volkswagen Group brands’ importer D’Ieteren Auto, Denis Gorteman is an avid collector of comics and classic cars. He just transformed his house to welcome his collection of 6.800 comics and some classic cars. Belgian newspaper L’Echo […]
By 2021 the iNext BMW will ride autonomously. When the car is riding by itself, the rectangular steering wheel will disappear in the dashboard. The iNext BMW will be the first electric family car that is able to drive for […]
After six years at the head of Belgian car importers federation FEBIAC, Thierry van Kan (68) hands on the torch to Philippe Dehennin, ex CEO of BWM Belgium. In an interview with L’Echo / De Tijd Thierry van Kan shares […]
American town and country planner Kevin Krizek has analyzed the behaviour of cyclists in the Netherlands for three years and comes to the conclusion: “The Netherlands are light-years ahead”. The professor, who used to live in Boulder, Colorado (US), says […]
Flemish Minister of Mobility Ben Weyts (N-VA) wants to get 20% of all commuters on the bicycle. Today the average is only 14%. “But I will not let the infrastructure for the car decay”, Weyts says in an interview with […]
Belgium’s material technology group Umicore invests 300 million euro to extend its cathode-material production, needed for use in lithium-ion battery powered electric vehicles. “Because demand for electric cars is growing quicker than anticipated”, says Umicore’s CEO Marc Grynberg in an […]
“The company car isn’t the problem, what’s wrong is the use we make of it”. Having the floor is Erwin Ollivier (54), CEO of Athlon Car Lease Belgium, in an interview with Trends magazine. “We have to reinvent the whole […]
Seat CEO Luca de Meo has presented the financial and commercial figures for 2016. In an interview with the French newspaper La Tribune he says “Seat shouldn’t be below 5% market share anymore if we want to count.” Seat believes […]
At a the gathering of the association of Belgian motoring and mobility journalists (UJBAM) Michel Vanden Broeck, ex-Lease Plan, CEO MD Renta Solutions and Frank Van Gool, Director General of MD Renta were quite outspoken about the future of leasing/renting […]
The Brussels Motor Show is a peculiar event. Every year in January the heart of the Belgian car lover and/or buyer beats faster. Mid-January is the time for this car show, alternately for cars only and for cars and vans/trucks. […]
Federal Minister of Mobility François Bellot (MR) has the ambition to reduce the ‘cancer’ of traffic jams in Belgium by 30%, starting with Brussels. But he knows this will take a change of mind of all Belgian people to achieve […]
Melexis CEO Françoise Chombar believes the Belgian chip maker can continue to grow in 2017 due to hybrid and autonomous cars. Today Melexis can show double digit grow figures (17%), twice as fast as the industry. In an interview with […]
INTERVIEW D’Ieteren Auto, Belgian importer for the Volkswagen Group (VW, Audi, Skoda, Seat, Porsche…), has managed to keep its market share in 2016 up to 21,3% (21,5% in 2015) in spite of dieselgate. CEO Denis Gorteman says he’s very pleased […]
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