Property of the Walloon Region, the Lidar speed cameras have seen a significant increase in the number of loans to local police zones. The effective semi-mobile speed cameras have a ticketing rate of around 2%. With its grey armouring, the […]
Just like Volkswagen, PSA and Renault are at the centre of the French Public Health Court’s investigation on diesel fraud. They are suspected to have altered their diesel car’s NOx emissions during the homologation tests. French journal Le Monde had […]
The Belgian government is thinking about making alcohol activated vehicle immobilizers, or the so-called alcolock, mandatory on drunk drivers’ cars. This measure could start on July 1st and will only concern drivers with more than 1,8 g/l of alcohol in […]
On Monday German justice has arrested Audi CEO Rupert Stadler “to avoid tempering with evidence”, according to the official statement. Stadler was already officially suspected of fraude and false testimonies together with another executive, Bernd Martens. But both are presumed […]
Twenty taxi drivers from the Belgian Cab Federation (Febet) are taking steps to request a ban on Uber BV (in the Netherlands) and ten drivers working on the platform. They want Uber drivers to stop driving in Brussels with a […]
Last Friday the general assembly of shareholders at Renault renamed Carlos Ghosn as CEO for another 4 years and the reconfirmed CEO did an announcement about the ‘prudent’ stay of Renault in Iran. It has been different in the past […]
After months of opposition from bikers, car drivers and politicians, the new regional road speed limit has been made official. From July 1st on, 400.000 km of secondary roads will now be limited to 80 km/h. Announced on January 9th […]
Belgian gas network managing company Fluxys offers Brussels to help with banning diesel from the Region by 2030 and substitute it partly by compressed natural gas (CNG). Contrary to Flanders and Wallonia the Brussels Region doesn’t have a subsidy to […]
Philippe Joubert says that you can’t deny climate change anymore. His mission is to convince companies that sustainability will bring in (more) money in the long run. That’s why he founded Earth on Board. Philippe Joubert has worked a long […]
Dieselgate has struck again. The German prosecution has ordered car manufacturer Volkswagen to pay a record 1 billion euro fine for the dieselgate fraud. VW has accepted to pay the fine. The German car industry is thoroughly shaken this week. […]
From 2019 onward the Dutch buyer of an electric car costing more than 50.000 euro will have to pay 22% additional taxes instead of 4% now. Many potential electric buyers hesitate. From the 1st of January 2019 the additional taxes, […]
The jurisdictional authorities in Munich have announced that the CEO of car manufacturer Audi, Rupert Stadler, is personally under investigation in the wake of the so-called dieselgate scandal. To many analysts it came as a surprise that Audi CEO Rupert […]
Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, met with car manufacturers and mobility service providers this Monday to study other solutions of shared electric mobility in the capital. Autolib, created and operated by French group Bolloré, is turning out to be a […]
The German government has ordered Daimler to proceed as quickly as possible to the recall of 774.000 Mercedes cars possibly having emissions-cheating software under the bonnet. The models concerned are the Vito van and some of the models C and […]
President Donald Trump repeating his threat after leaving the G7 Summit in Canada, to tax car import by 25%, might jeopardize more than 150.000 jobs in America, experts in the US say. One third of all car import is done […]
The Belgian government confirmed that it will use the WLTP data to base the company car tax system in 2021. Until then, expenses deduction and benefits (ATN/VAA) will be calculated with NEDC 2.0 data. Ever since the Worldwide Harmonized Light […]
In ten years the Car-Pass system has managed to eradicate nearly all odometer fraud on secondhand cars. The government will add new data on emissions and Euro standards to make the system even more reliable. More data Ten years ago […]
ACEA, the umbrella federation of European car manufacturers, asks the EU for a ‘reality check’ on the eve of the electric car. It’s not enough that manufactures are offering electric cars, the consumers must be financially able and willing to […]
Car manufacturer PSA Group has announced preparing itself to withdraw from Iran, becoming the second large French company (after Total) to concede to the threat of American sanctions. PSA announced that it has “started with the suspension of its joint […]
Saudi Arabia has started to hand out the first driver’s licenses for women on Monday, three weeks before the royal decree, authorizing women to drive a car in the ultra-conservative Muslim country, will be valid. Today, and until June 24th, […]
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced in Istanbul that “it’s over and out for Uber or Muber or whatever it is called (…)”. With this statement Erdogan gives in to the the 17.400 drivers of the official yellow taxis […]
After having listened to Environment Minister Fremault’s proposition, the Brussels Government will launch a consultation designed to discuss “the ban of diesel vehicles by 2030 at the latest”. Some Ministers are afraid that things are going too fast. Fremault’s initiative […]
Brussels Environment Minister, Céline Fremault (CDH), thinks that more should be done for the environment in Brussels, such as banning diesel (and even petrol) cars from the city. The Minister is presenting her note to the government this Thursday. Cities’ […]
French car maker groups Renault and PSA (Citroën-Peugeot) kept prices of their spare parts since the year 2006 artificially high, with an average of 15% but sometimes up to more than double the real value. They used the same smart […]
The closure of three out of six tunnels in the Reyers complex for entering or leaving Brussels, caused a major traffic infarct on Monday morning. The Schaerbeek municipality blames the Region for a lack of information for drivers. The tunnels […]
Although the Brussels Region, Charleroi and Mons have prohibited their use, quad bikes have been involved in 222 accidents in the last three years. According to the Vias Institute, “quad bikes are extremely dangerous”. 8 killed and 214 injured Since […]
German government has asked Daimler on Monday to clarify the suspicion of the Federal Motor Transport Authority (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt, KBA) that emissions-cheating software has been used to mask the real NOx emission of its Mercedes Vito, equipped with… a Renault diesel […]
Introducing a general kilometre tax in Flanders would make driving a car 12 to 27% more expensive, but could be compensated by a lower personal income tax. This could generate 4,3 billion euro to finance a ‘green tax shift’. These […]
The city of Liège (Belgium) is looking at putting up two cable car systems to enhance its public transport services. The first one will link the Saint-Léonard Square to the Citadel’s hospital, while the other one will connect the city […]
If the Brussels government is to follow the recommendations of its task force on new vehicle taxation, even Euro 6 diesel cars could be taxed six times more than its petrol equivalent. On top of that could come – within […]
President Trump of the US is now aiming his protectionist anger toward the (importing) car industry. He has asked the American Department of Commerce to open an inquiry on the import of cars, trucks and parts as possibly menacing the […]
The Transport Commission of the European Parliament has voted on Thursday a new measure making it nearly impossible for foreign drivers to escape the fines when abroad, like for entering a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) or other infringements caught on […]
The city of Brussels has just bought two so-called ScanCars, equipped with ten cameras. These incredible efficient machines can scan 2.000 cars per hour, or 18.000 cars per day, so it will become very difficult to dodge the parking ticket […]
Hamburg is the first German city to issue a partial ban on diesel cars that don’t comply with the Euro 6 standard, from May 31 on two major traffic axes in the Altona-Nord district. After a long legal battle cities […]
People wanting to obtain their driver’s license in Brussels will have to take an obligatory first aid course as from November 2018. Red Cross will teach some basic first aid techniques for heart massage, will learn how to stem blood, […]
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