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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 […]
After the launch of the electric Uber Jump bikes in Brussels, the company is looking to expand its services in Belgium further. New Uber products will be added in Brussels shortly, but no dates are set. In some cases, a […]
Luc Vandenbulcke is the new CEO of dredging company DEME. He sees growth in the future, but also obstacles to overcome. In any way, this growth has to be sustainable. As one of the fathers of the windmill parks in […]
Jay Inslee, a Democratic candidate for the presidency and governor of the state of Washington (US), pushes the climate issue way forward on the democratic agenda. He is solely talking about this, to make his point perfectly clear and convincing. […]
Umicore’s stock market value is rising again after the hit it took in April. The Belgian raw material supplier’s half-year results were better than expected. But the company remains prudent about future financial results. Especially the unstable automotive market, Umicore’s […]
The world’s leading manufacturer of charging stations for electric cars is partnering with Belgian company Smappee. They will offer a ‘smart charging’ solution that will manage the charging depending on the needs and network availability. With already more than 75.000 […]
Isabelle Kocher, the CEO of French energy giant, Engie, is straightforward in this: “No matter what the politicians decide, we need decisions. Now !” Engie, the mother company of Belgian Electrabel, with Isabelle Kocher, rules practically the Belgian energy market. […]
Eddy Haesendonck is since one year CEO of the BMW/Mini importation in Belgium and Luxembourg. As a manager he tries to integrate the important changes in the car business in his company. “It’s time for everyone to get out of […]
Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen Group, thinks his company has turned the page and is ready for future challenges. But surely now, you can’t take things for granted and much will depend on the governmental politics in the matter. […]
Geert Bruyneel, top manager at Volvo cars, knows the Chinese way of thinking. “They may have unreachable goals, but even when they realize 80%, they achieve more than we do, with our carefully chosen, modest goals. Belgian Geert Bruyneel (59) […]
Guido Dumarey, Belgian entrepreneur and CEO of Punch Powerglide, is a man with outspoken ideas. He doesn’t belief in the electric car, pleads to reconsider diesel before hydrogen comes in. In his view diesel has been ousted too fast, electric […]
At the start of the interview, Audi’s newly appointed CEO, Bram Schot (57), shows a picture of some artwork he just bought. A life-size portrait of former F1 driver and legend Ayrton Senna made of pieces of jeans fabric. He […]
Denis Gorteman, CEO of Belgian car importer D’Ieteren, is clear: “If we’re told that the internal combustion engine (ICE) has to die in 2030 or 2035, we’ll do it. It’s the only way and it will work, but we have […]
The European think tank Bruegel has made a study on the impact of climate decisions and their redistributing effects in society. The results are clear: poor people will suffer more than wealthier ones and the impact won’t be negligible. There […]
Visiting the Brussels Motor Show, Jean-Philippe Imparato, CEO of the French car manufacturer Peugeot, sees the car world changing rapidly. His answer is threefold: “be serene, stay simple, continue to enjoy”. “The world is changing now”, he starts his 40 […]
Philippe Op de Beeck, the (Belgian) CEO of the American Apcoa Parking Group that manages from its HQ in Stuttgart 1,4 million parking spaces on 9.000 locations internationally, is not afraid to get out of business soon. “There will be […]
Rare metals are in the centre of the energetic and digital transition. Investigative journalist, Guillaume Pitron, has researched the industry behind it for six years and concludes that the so-called green capitalism is an oxymoron, a round quadrangle. Guillaume Pitron […]
Dutch railways, NS, has ordered another 88 Sprinter trains, worth 400.000 euro with Spanish train builder CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles), bringing the total to 200 being built there. The overall investment in renewing the train fleet adds up […]
Edzard Overbeek, CEO of Amsterdam headquartered HERE Technologies, is quite confident about his business: “ultimately it will be Google versus us in the navigation market.” Naming the other Dutch high-definition map maker, TomTom, Overbeek avoids carefully in talking with newspapers, […]
Looking back on a tumultuous 2018, Harold Goddijn, founder and CEO of Dutch navigational tech company TomTom, called the Renault-Nissan alliance choosing for Google software for two of its models, “a wake-up call for automotive industry”. Software that is updated […]
Belgium is very important for Toyota and it employs 4.400 people here. We had a talk with the European boss, Johan van Zyl, about the European market at TMC’s European headquarters in Brussels. Van Zyl is a 60-year-old South-African who […]
In an interview Carlos Ghosn, CEO of the Alliance Renault/Nissan/Mitsubishi, foresees car manufacturers becoming more and more mobility providers and an almost disappearance of the diesel engine. The boss of the largest car manufacturing group in the world is fairly […]
Climate expert, Jos Delbeke, warns that we’re running out of time climate wise and that transport is one of the big problems in these. From February 2010 until the beginning of this year civil servant Delbeke was Director General (DG) […]
The number of cars is still increasing in the world, but the car as an object of dreams is slowly disappearing, thinks Jean-François Doulet, mobility expert at Ecole d’Urbanisme in Paris and author of Atlas de l’Automobile. We asked him […]
In a meeting with Quentin Lestavel, Country Manager of Drivy, the leading European car sharing platform, he confirms that car sharing is booming and that people can even make a living out of it. “At the Midi Station in the […]
The first half of the year, Porsche progressed with 6% in Belgium. Selling 3.500 sports cars a year, D’Ieteren is the biggest independent Porsche importer in volume in the world. CEO, Didier t’Serstevens, wants to improve these figures further and […]
In a remarkably open, sometimes emotional, one hour-long phone conversation with New York Times columnist, David Gelles, Elon Musk admits the last year to be “the most painful in his career”. “For Tesla the worst is over”, said the CEO, […]
Soon there will be a new car brand on the market: Polestar. CEO Thomas Ingenlath has high hopes for the brand: “We don’t want to kill Tesla, our first aim is to expand the until now poor choice of electric […]
