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Dutch oil giant Shell will buy German charging point manufacturer ubitricity if allowed to do by competition authorities. The Germans are specialists in integrating EV charging points into lampposts and bollards. In the UK, ubitricity has built in more than […]
Alain Visser, CEO of Lynk & Co, preaches the revolution. He doesn’t want to sell cars anymore, he wants to lend them monthly, and he wants his clients to share them. In this second part of the interview, he explains […]
The Belgian Alain Visser is Lynk & Co’s CEO, the Chinese Geely daughter who intends to change things on the car market. Many new and sometimes controversial ideas come from or are stimulated by the CEO — no better reason […]
Dutchman Bas Viveen, an ‘automotive veteran’ with mileage at Renault, Nissan, Peugeot, and Opel/Vauxhall Europe, runs Peugeot Belux for a few months already from August 2020. His colleague CEO at Citroën Belux, Frenchman Damien Martin-Cocher, just arrived from Ukraine, finishing […]
Is the German car manufacturer BMW getting nervous about the energy transition? In any case, the company wants to draw already one-fifth of its turnover out of electric cars in 2023. At the moment this is 8%. According to CEO […]
Fiat has introduced a new version of its electric 500 – the Fiat New 500 3+1, which is characterized by an additional door on the passenger side, hinged in the opposite direction. Thus, the New 500 3+1 is designed to […]
Ashwani Gupta, a lively Indian in his early fifties, has the most difficult task at Nissan: making the failing Japanese number two profitable again. At Nissan, he’s COO, member of the board, director of operations, and performance. In short, he’s […]
Polestar, the new car manufacturer of electric vehicles and daughter of the Chinese Geely Group, has opened its first ‘Space’ in Brussels, the third in the world, after Beijing and Oslo. Later, there will be three more in Belgium, in […]
Exor Seeds, an investment vehicle of the Fiat family Agnelli, is one of the new investors in the Belgian connected e-bike Cowboy. The Brussels start-up raises 23 million euros in a new capital round. The money will be used to […]
Last week, Nissan presented its second full-electric passenger car, the Ariya. It’s also the sign for the new Nissan strategy to be developed. We had a brief virtual meeting with the CEO and COO and spoke with the newly appointed […]
How is the car business waking up after the corona confinement? Belgian newspaper L’Echo asked Stéphane Sertang, CEO of the car dealer group Ginion, how he sees things. Ginion Group covers a certain amount of (usually premium or high-end luxury) […]
Just before the corona crisis hit Europe, the mobility supplier Alphabet ordered a mobility survey. We discussed the results with Erik Swerts, Managing Director of Alphabet Belgium & Luxembourg. First, an overview of the most important results. The survey was […]
Bram Schot (58), the former CEO of Audi, has left the company this month and considers his options. Meanwhile, he analyses the current situation and thinks about the future. He talked openly to the Dutch newspaper Trouw. Schot was the […]
Denis Gorteman, CEO of D’Ieteren Auto, is clear. He estimates the Belgian car market at 430 000 units this year and around 450 000 the following years – a far cry from the 550 000 last year. At the moment, […]
Brussels Airlines fights to survive amid the corona crisis, but Dieter Vranckx shows himself combative. “I’m going for it 100%.” The newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws interviewed the CEO of the Belgian airline, which is part of Lufthansa. No new Sabena […]
The e-bike market has been growing steadily for years. The market represented 9 million units last year. That is why the Belgian company E2 Drives also focuses on this growth market by developing innovative technology with an automatic gearbox. Interesting […]
D’ieteren CEO Francis Deprez is facing the worst economic crisis of his career. But D’Ieteren Group is armed with a €1,5 billion in cash. The magazine Trends interviewed Deprez and asked him about his view on the corona crisis and […]
Many car manufacturers are struggling. Lately, their reaction to the different threats differ. In this article, we talk with Maxime Picat, since 2016 EVP at PSA and Operational Director for Europe. Our rendezvous was scheduled for Geneva, but we finally […]
On Thursday, Volvo inaugurated its brand new battery assembly plant in Ghent, the first for Volvo. Belgian Geert Bruyneel, responsible for Global Production Operations at Volvo, had traveled from Göteborg to comment on the important investment. “Sustainability is as important […]
For ten years now, Dutchman Adrian van Hooydonk leads the design department of the German premium car manufacturer BMW. He thinks the whole car sector is now ‘in a perfect storm’. “In our industry, everything is turned upside down.” “We […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rumour has it that General Motors is considering taking this ultimate off-road vehicle back into production. With an electric motor, it’s true, but still far from energy-efficient. Energy crisis The Hummer made its debut during the first Iraq war, and […]
Jean-Dominique Senard was on a visit at the Brussels Motor Show. There he confirmed that the rumors about a possible divorce between Nissan and Renault were completely false. “On the contrary, we will see to it that the Alliance will […]
Jean-Philippe Imparato, CEO of Peugeot and visiting the Brussels Motor Show on Thursday, is clear. “We will be ready for the stringent EU emission regulations from Day One. And that doesn’t mean Peugeot cars won’t be attractive anymore, on the […]
Seven Belgian federations are joining forces to set up a so-called ‘Low Emission Mobility Platform’ to exchange knowledge and to boost the breakthrough of sustainable technology in the mobility sector. Priority will be the roll-out of EV charging infrastructure and […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can break through if it consumes fewer data and can make connections like humans. That’s what Mieke De Ketelaere says in the weekly magazine Trends. De Ketelaere has been working with artificial intelligence for more than twenty […]
Brussels will start road-pricing on its territory, whether Flanders likes it or not. But the Region wants to cooperate. Brussels Mobility Minister, Elke Van den Brandt (Groen), proposes a slimmed-down approach, with exemptions on routes where there is no alternative […]
It’s official: Dutchman Bram Schot, who is leading Audi since the fall of Rupert Stadler, is leaving Audi. German Markus Düsmann, ex-BMW, is taking the helm from April. Schot faced difficult times with Audi having to cut costs drastically and […]
According to Bertille Bayart and Emmanuel Egloff, two journalists at the French newspaper, Le Figaro, the whole Ghosn affaire was a deliberate action orchestrated from within Nissan, the car manufacturing company he presided. That’s what they both affirm in their […]
Dutch truck manufacturing company, DAF, is not a die-hard believer in the electric semi-truck, it told Dutch financial newspaper FD. It’s instead focusing on hybrid drivetrains today, with a combustion engine and electric motor. “Reliability takes precedence over rapid innovation,” […]
Erik Jonnaert, Secretary-General of the European car manufacturers association (ACEA), is retiring from his function at the end of the year. During his six years at ACEA, a lot of things have happened. “They were very intensive years. Six of […]
At the IAA motor show in Frankfurt, Thierry Bolloré, CEO of the French car manufacturer, Renault, presented the new Captur. At the same time, he commented on some hot issues regarding the company, the Alliance with Nissan and the automotive […]
“BMW is changing. In the future, our company will not sell cars alone. We get lots of demands for our technology. It might sound new to you, but BMW is evolving into a tech company within the next ten years,” […]
Volkswagen has changed course to create a new, friendlier image for itself. After it took a heavy blow from the dieselgate consequences, the brand now wants to convince with its ID.3 electric car, which also launches a new, slimmer VW […]
