Head of Business Bevelopment and Innovation in e-mobility for Engie, Michaël De Koster, confirms that the industrial group is very interested in hydrogen to store energy and fuel tomorrow’s mobility. Engie’s goals are to produce hydrogen from exceeding electricity from […]
Belgium invests hardly 0,3% of its gross national product in road infrastructure. Only in Ireland the figures of governmental investments are even smaller, according to OESO. Investments in maintenance, however, are important, as we learned from the sad accident of […]
Car manufacturer Volvo hopes to be introduced on the stock market in Stockholm before the end of this year. According to the Financial Times, Chinese Volvo owner, Geely, hopes to reach a fair value of 30 billion dollar (± 26,5 […]
The Responsible Young Drivers (RYD) launched special ‘smartphone glasses’ on Wednesday. This new application simulates the dangers of distraction due to the use of the mobile phone while driving a car or a bicycle. The smartphone glasses were developed in […]
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 Munich-based mobility provider, Sono Motors, has announced a next test tour of its Sion ‘solar’ electric car throughout 18 cities in Germany and the Netherlands, starting the 1st of September in Germany and the 7th in the Netherlands. After […]
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 […]
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) […]
Six weeks after the introduction of the shared electric Troty scooters in Brussels, the city of Liège starts with its own Troty fleet. The red and black shared scooters can achieve a 25 kph speed, have a range of 40 […]
Punctuality remains a problem for Belgian Railway Company, NMBS/SNCB. In an internal memo, glanced through by the Walloon newspaper, L’Avenir, the railway company states that its 89% target for punctuality will not be achieved this year, and that it has […]
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 […]
Since the controversial plans for the redevelopment and widening of the Brussels Ring (part North) came up in 2014, opinions are still dived on whether it will be a broadening or an optimization. Recently, the Flemish Government did organize a public consultation, […]
Belgian-Dutch bicycle store chain, Fiets!, is closing five of its shops in Flanders and asks protection against its creditors. The chain was booming thanks to the popularity of the e-bike, but fierce competition of online discounters in the Netherlands cooked […]
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 […]
On Friday Ryanair pilots in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany knocked off in the hardest strike in the 34 years of existence of the low-cost airline. With the strike more than 25.000 passengers see their flight cancelled. The […]
More and more larger Dutch companies offer a yearly subscription card (OV chip card) for public transport to all their employees instead of a lease car. VodafoneZiggo is the latest in the row. VodafoneZiggo, a merger of the Dutch Vodafone […]
The Canadian start-up, Transpod, will take up residence in the small municipality of Droux in southwest France and build the longest test track for the development of the hyperloop technology. One day after Virgin Hyperloop One announced it would set […]
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 […]
Alternatives to traditional taxi services are emerging like mushrooms in these Uber times. The Antwerp one-man business, Driverbuddy, is taking a different approach. They drive your car instead of their own, as a personal chauffeur, and can also take on […]
In the roof boxes of national railway company NMBS/SNCB’s recent Desiro trains explosions take place, causing power failure and making the trains stop. “It’s by no means the only technical problem”, says Kees Smilde, spokesman of travellers association, TreinTramBus. He […]
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 […]
Every day, the Belgian police imposes an average of 155 temporary driving bans on drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs. This is most often the case in the province of Antwerp. The facts established are becoming increasingly serious. […]
In July 2.558 motorcycles and scooters were sold in Belgium, 19,3% more than in July 2017. According to sector federation Febiac, the successful sales is a direct consequence of the continuous nice weather conditions. Figures of mopeds increased significantly too, […]
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 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) of Detroit will be moved from January to June starting in 2020. Increasing competition from the Las Vegas CES, also planned for January, has motivated the organizer’s choice. Every year, Detroit hosts the […]
The faculty Industrial Engineer Sciences of the KU Leuven is working on a universal charger for electric bicycles at the technology campus in Ghent. Recently the Austrian company, Bike Energy, launched such a charger, but the engineers in Leuven want […]
The small electric car inspired by the Isetta, which was presented last January by the Swiss company, Micro Mobility, has recently been homologated for European roads. The cute micro car should arrive on the market next year. It’s small, it’s […]
Austria started a controversial experiment on Wednesday by raising the speed limit from 130 to 140 kph, on two six-lane sections of the country’s main motorway between Vienna and Salzburg. “It’s intended to help motorists to save time”, explained Transport […]
The Netherlands are struggling with an enormous shortage of truck drivers. Sector organization for small and middle-sized road transport companies, VERN, is sounding the alarm bell and proposes to send 11.000 retired truck drivers back on the road. “If we […]
The young Brussels company, Ahooga, produces the lightest collapsible electric bicycle on the market. This innovation, which is already sold in 10 countries, attracts clients from the USA and Asia and pushes the company to go worldwide. “This city (Brussels) […]
With its M-Byte, the new Chinese car manufacturer, Byton, wants to leave its mark in the luxury SUV segment. This electric concept has been thought out to be connected, autonomous and shared. The road-going version will be launched next year […]
After the shared cars and bicycles the city of Rotterdam now also has its own shared electric scooter system, felyx. The company will start with 324 electric scooters. “People can rent a scooter via a special app, they pay 0,30 […]
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