“The year 2028 marks the end of the combustion engine, only 1% of car sales remaining. In 2032-2034 Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) has become an extreme cost efficient service and the dominant means of transport. Cars are only bought for pleasure, but […]
With the opening of the 88th Motor Show, the ‘silent death’ of the diesel engine and the fast rise of electrification and autonomous driving are the ‘talk of the town’ in Geneva (Switzerland). German premium brands, though still far ahead […]
Luc Bontemps, CEO of Febiac, the Belgian federation of cars and two-wheelers, wants to enhance traffic safety by using personal data cars are already storing today. In a column he expresses his thoughts. In 2017 the death toll due to […]
Frank Van Gool, CEO at Renta, the Belgian Vehicle Rental Association, warns for an abrupt change in policy. “The number of diesel cars is also due to political choices in the past, you can’t change course too hastily…” Frank Van […]
In a long interview Joeri Thijs, Belgian campaigner for Greenpeace, claims that not much has changed concerning emissions/emission testing in the car industry since the Dieselgate scandal. “That there were a lot of problems with emission testing, was already known […]
Lowering the speed limit on secondary roads in France from 100 to 90 kph is inevitable to save lives, and should be implemented as soon as possible at beginning of the new Macron government’s term, as intended. France’s leading newspaper […]
The cities of San Francisco and Oakland want money from oil concerns to pay for the results of climate change. According to Dennis Herrera, advocate for the city of San Francisco, “Oil companies should take their responsibility for the damages […]
Traditional fuels such as petrol and diesel will continue to play a major role in road traffic for many years to come. This is the belief of Wolfgang Warnecke, chief science officer mobility at Shell. He speaks today during an […]
“The car of the future will be electric because politicians are choosing for this in an auction of economic nationalism with China leading the pack”. This is in short the opinion ventilated by Marc De Vos, professor of the Ghent […]
In an interview with Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure, Brussels Mobility Minister Pascal Smet (sp.a) gives his blunt thoughts on 200.000 every day commuters to Brussels. Although ‘not being against them’, Smet says: “They have to carpool or pay! Brussels […]
Yesterday Flemish minister for mobility Ben Weyts (N-VA) introduced the teams that will design the covering of the Antwerp Ring. Because of the size of the project, the Ring is divided into six parts. Each team will be responsible for […]
With the announcement of the end of the combustion engine – at last in 2040 in France and the UK, already in 2025 in Norway – it looks like we are at the advent of the ‘kingdom of the electric […]
Everywhere in Europe the end of the combustion engine is announced. “But are these plans as ambitious as they look?” Bard Van De Weijer asks himself in De Morgen. On Wednesday Great Britain announced that starting by 2040 the sales of […]
Fuel cell cars are here today, but they probably won’t be a viable alternative for the ‘battery car’ before 2025. Japanese car maker Toyota, together with its South Korean competitor Hyundai, is one of the few manufacturers commercializing already its […]
Elon Musk, the visionary founder of Tesla and Space X doesn’t trust artificial intelligence (AI), writes the French newspaper Le Figaro. In a recent reunion of the National Governors Association (NGA), he pleaded for measures to secure humanity against artificial […]
Tesla and Volvo made some important announcements recently concerning electric propulsion. In many media people were talking about a real turning point. Time to put some things into perspective. by Tony Verhelle A few weeks ago Tesla announced the delivery […]
“Is the electric car really so good for our health and the environment as the ‘believers’ pretend?”, De Standaard asks itself . With Tesla’s Model 3 finally being produced last week and Volvo announcing it will only produce full electric […]
“If your children are breathing clean air 50 years from now, they will owe that for a large part to Elon Musk. With the launch of the Tesla Model 3 a clean future is nearby”, Karsten Lemmens writes in the […]
The autonomous car is coming, manufacturers start also working on the economics behind, not only he technical side. Biggest risk factor: social acceptance. The automobile, many people are still passionate about it. If we tell them we had the opportunity […]
Recently the city of Antwerp decided to create a “war room”, a coordination center between local and federal police, city services and the Flemish road administration. The purpose is a sort of nervous center that can react more quickly and […]
Last year the sales of plug-in hybrid cars in Holland has halved. The reason for that is the increase of the value to be added to taxable income, but experts believe this drop in sales will only be temporary. According […]
According to Aad Correljé, energy expert at the Technical University Delft (Netherlands), oil – and its derivative petrol – will remain cheap for a long time. “No party is able to influence prices anymore and oil can be pumped up […]
In the Belgian newspaper De Tijd, economist and founder of Econopolis Geert Noels wonders how Tesla’s iconic founder Elon Musk would cope with mobility problems in Belgium if he would live and work here. Viewing TED-founder Chris Anderson’s latest interview […]
Who surfs along the electric car’s success wave? Belgian Financial newspaper De Tijd, together with other financial analysts, take a look at which companies in Belgium and the rest of the world win by it, or will probably loose by […]
Belgian government stimulates buying ecological cars. Five years ago diesel cars were promoted, today petrol cars turn out to be the better ones and in the years to come it will be the electrical car. According to Joost Bollen in Het […]
The city of Stuttgart is on the turn. This automotive technology capital that accommodates major players as Mercedes-Benz, Bosch and Porsche is about to ban diesel cars in the city centre. The city centre lays in a kind of valley and […]
The Flanders Mobility Plan, setting out the chalk lines for a future, environmental friendly mobility, should finally be ready after 18 years of preparation. Flemish Minister of Mobility Ben Weyts (N-VA) says it should be approved by the parliament by […]
When I started my career in motoring journalism 40 years ago, older colleagues assured me that in 30 years everybody would drive on hydrogen. This prediction hasn’t come through (yet), so what will drive the car of the future? By […]
A few weeks ago Tesla Inc. became the largest U.S. car manufacturer by market value, with a market share of… 0,2%. Until now the car maker remains also unprofitable and deeply in debt. How will it solve these problems? By […]
It is the perfect car: the FCEV or Fuel Cell Electirc Vehicle. No heavy batteries, no range limitations, no emissions but crystal clear water. But today, there are only fifteen hydrogen cars driving around in Belgium, commercialized by Toyota and […]
The reality of the autonomous car is at our door step with all the major manufactures trying to create their own version of the perfect car of the future. Knowing that about 90% of car related incidents are caused by […]
This week CEO Hakan Samuelsson reiterated Volvo’s commitment to the Ghent plant and announced officially the arrival of a second new model built onto the new CMA-platform. By Tony Verhelle Following it’s new corporate strategy of building all new cars […]
The European Parliament voted on a number of more stringent rules concerning toxic or environmentally unfriendly emissions by cars and transport in general. Unfortunately the European agency who has to implement and control these rulings has been voted down. An […]
Belgian ‘social partners’ – the unions and employer’s organisations – agree on the chalk lines for the new mobility budget. They veto the governmental idea to give a net wage increase in exchange for the ‘company or salary car’, the […]
Today Ghent is introducing it’s much debated ‘circulation plan’ to keep cars out of the city center. Is it a good plan or not? No traffic expert is willing to write it off completely, but there are a lot of […]
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