American electric car company, Tesla, has started judicial procedures against the Canadian state of Ontario because the new government decided to stop incentives for the purchase of Electric Vehicles (EV). Clients can still benefit from a discount until mid-September but […]
The European Commission sees a special role for the ports of Zeebrugge and Antwerp (Belgium) and Rotterdam (the Netherlands) in the further development of a trans-European transport network after the Brexit. The French oppose fiercely, accusing Europe of forgetting their […]
Ghent has a car-free city centre, Antwerp a Low Emission Zone (LEZ), but Dutch or French motorists who entered the car-free centre or the low emission zone escape the fines because they cannot be traced down via the number plate […]
The artificial island project for storm protection in front of the coast of Knokke-Heist (Belgium) has been put on hold. Federal Secretary to the North Sea, Philippe De Backer, says it doesn’t meet with the marine space development plan. Flemish […]
In a survey Flemish mobility club VAB asked 2.000 Flemish consumers about their interest in electric cars. This is still very low and the reason is their distrust of the Flemish government: they fear that it might change the present […]
Foreign drivers, who ignore the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in Antwerp or enter a road closed for cars, a so-called ‘snip’, are rarely fined because the software system fails. This way the city of Ghent lost approximately 675.000 euro in […]
GPS trackers are a common tool for companies with large car parks. Recently the system demonstrated other possibilities: monitoring the misuse of a car by a third party. GPS trackers are mainly used by companies with cars/lorries/trucks which are always […]
The city of Brussels has been rapped on its knuckles by a European study focusing on the air pollution in touristic cities. The whole territory of the Brussels Metropolitan Region – 19 municipalities – is a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) […]
Audi CEO, Rupert Stadler (55), remains in jail after the Munich (Landgericht) court rejected his appeal against his arrest. Stadler was arrested eight weeks ago on suspicion of having allowed the sales of Audis with cheating software, while being aware […]
In comparison with 4 years ago the second-hand market in Belgium has risen 17% in 2017. The total value of sold second-hand cars was for the first time more than 2 billion euro in Belgium in 2017. At the same […]
Several manufacturers meet delivery problems at the moment, not because there’s a lack of cars but because the right homologation papers are missing. Last week we already reported about delivery problems for Mercedes in the Benelux, today it becomes clear […]
A few hours after Flemish Mobility Minister, Ben Weyts (N-VA), returned from vacation, he had to blew the whistle on the agency for roads and traffic (Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer, AWV) for the drastic change of priority regulation for bicycle-riders […]
On several places in Flanders the priority regulation for bike-riders at crossings will change, giving motorized traffic priority to bicycle-riders. On spots where cars until now had to stop to give priority to cyclists, the situation is now just the […]
After several other Japanese manufacturers Mazda, Suzuki and Yamaha have confessed to be falsifying testing procedures on emissions and consumption. Apparently a great number of Japanese car manufacturers have been manipulating test procedures. After the discovery of test procedure fraud […]
BMW is going to recall 323.700 diesel cars throughout Europe as a continuation of the findings in South-Korea, where some 30 BMWs caught fire and more than 100.000 BMWs are also recalled. The reason is the same: the EGR system […]
The city council of New York is restricting Uber’s taxis. The municipal council decided on Wednesday that no new permits would be given for one year. In this way, the city hopes to reduce the problems of the enormous growth […]
In the whole of the Benelux numerous Mercedes buyers are waiting for their Mercedes to be finally delivered. The cars are there, the right homologation papers aren’t. On the first of September, last year the new European emission rules were […]
The important German vehicle manufacturer, Daimler, has already announced that it will “cease its limited activities” in Iran following the decision of the Trump administration to carry on with the sanctions against Iran. There was a project for expanding business […]
The Belgian Federal Mobility Office is checking fewer and fewer trucks on social fraud. This is partly due to the shrinking workforce, but there is also less ‘static’ control, while more interceptions with service vehicles are carried out, so that […]
Brussels Commercial Court has condemned the Heetch app for illegal activities. The app offers paid rides with cars and drivers without any license for paid transport of people, as was announced on Tuesday by the cabinet of Brussels Mobility Minister, […]
BMW’s free-floating car sharing company, DriveNow, has recorded a loss of 3,25 million euro in 2017 in Belgium. According to its CEO, the government’s mobility plan and company cars are to blame. Back in 2015, BMW and Sixt launched a […]
In France, the cities of Paris, Lyon, Annecy, Strasbourg and the Isère department have put up driving restrictions starting from yesterday because of exceeding pollution levels caused by the heat wave. Cars registered before 1996 aren’t allowed anywhere. Paris The […]
Brussels City Council has recently given a positive opinion under conditions on the ring road widening to the company in charge of roadworks. Brussels mayor, Philippe Close, pleads for a dialog with the Region, while councilwoman, Marie Nagy, thinks the […]
Belgium and ten other member states are asking Europe to ‘ramp up’ the official limit of NOx (nitrogen oxide) emissions set for the several countries, so that they will still be able to meet them. Main arguments are the on […]
Donald Trump has pushed through his intention to scrap the strict car emission standards for US cars, introduced by Barak Obama. This was confirmed by both the environmental agency, EPA, and the road safety agency, NHTSA, on Thursday. California’s governor, […]
Since March last year and until 2020, Wallonia in conjunction with 79 bicycle dealers is offering free 15-days electric bicycle trials to citizens. More than one out of two bikes tested are purchased. The Carlo Di Antonio (cdH) ‘try an […]
The number of cars flashed on regional roads where recently a 80 km/hour speed limit is introduced, is doubled compared to a year before, as was announced on Tuesday. “More than 500.000 cars – 251.893 more than in July 2017 […]
The Brussels regional government is sending the elaborated new car tax proposals from its task force ‘back to sender’ to redo his homework and make ‘social corrections’ after fierce opposition within the majority, with the socialist party PS in front. […]
The city of Antwerp has indicated the Antwerp proces servers, Modero Gerechtsdeurwaarders Antwerpen, to go after foreign car drivers fined for entering Antwerp’s Low Emission Zone with a polluting car. People doing so risk a 125 euro fine. The city […]
The Belgian Council of Ministers has approved the ‘mobility budget’ preliminary draft but the project still has to pass thought the parliament. No words on its official enactment but the new measure will have to coexist with the principle of […]
If Flanders goes ahead with its plans to implement a kilometre tax system for private cars by 2024, the Dutch Minister for Infrastructure, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (VVD), is willing to go to the European Court of Justice against it, just […]
Flanders allows cities in the future to create ‘Ultra Low Emission Zones’, eventually with a complete ban for cars with a combustion engine and not only for older diesels. So far there was no legal base for this, but the […]
The Belgian government has given green light for two pilot projects about collecting and processing passenger data on international buses and trains, as was announced on Wednesday by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Jan Jambon (N-VA). Belgium is the first […]
In a letter to the Parliament and the member states, the EU Commission warns it is suspecting car manufacturers to cheat with the new CO2 tests to make it easier to meet the targets set for 2025. The Commission is […]
According to Mobility Minister, François Bellot (MR), the number of fake foreign driving licences is increasing. The OCRF (Central Office for Suppression of Forgeries) has detected 245 fake licences in 2017 compared to 210 in 2016. To drive on Belgian […]
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