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Hyundai pioneers with next generation hydrogen Nexo
Tony Verhelle Posted On October 8, 2018


With the launch of the Nexo as the successor of the ix35 FCEV, South Korean car maker, Hyundai, is in the forefront of hydrogen technology for cars again. Our first test with the car on the road confirmed the fine […]


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‘Car as an object of dreams is disappearing’
Tony Verhelle Posted On September 28, 2018


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 […]


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CEO De Lijn: ‘Motorist will only use public transport if it goes as fast as a car’
Luc Joris Posted On September 14, 2018


In an opinion article in newspaper De Tijd, Roger Kesteloot, Director-General of the Flemish transport company De Lijn, argues for more investments in public transport. “The motorist will only use public transport if it goes as fast as a car”, he […]


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Diesel revival: hope or curse?
Tony Verhelle Posted On September 11, 2018


Since April of this year the decline in diesel sales in Belgium has stopped, in fact there is a slight revival. Is this a lasting trend change and if so, should we be happy with it? While in the middle […]


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Public charging stations not crucial for breakthrough e-car
Gert Verhoeven Posted On September 7, 2018


Interest in electric cars remains very weak on the Belgian car market. Buyers are reluctant to buy an electric car for fear of not finding a charging station. However, only 5% of the charges in Europe is made at a […]


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Damien Ernst: ’90 billion to start building global grid’
Joris Van Roy Posted On August 17, 2018


Why not building a ‘global grid’ to get the green electricity on those places where it can be produced cheaply in abundance? Like a giant wind farm in Greenland, connected with a ‘super cable’ to Europe on one end and […]


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Tesla asks suppliers for refund
Gert Verhoeven Posted On July 24, 2018


According to The Wall Street Journal which could lay hands on an internal memo, Tesla has asked a number of suppliers to refund part of what the car manufacturer has previously paid them. Asking suppliers for rebates to help launching […]


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Ricardo Hausmann: “the West ignores what technological progress means”
Tony Verhelle Posted On July 3, 2018


Ricardo Hausmann, economy professor and Director of the International Center for Development at Harvard University (US), claims that the so-called free and developed West is having the wrong views on technological progress. “Technology is often seen as the cause of […]


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Belgian employers advocate ‘CO2 tax shift’
Joris Van Roy Posted On July 3, 2018


Two major Belgian employers organizations, VBO/FEB and Unizo, are in favour of the idea of a CO2 tax on fuels for heating and transport, as proposed by the climate change administration of the government, on condition that it is a […]


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Jaguar I-Pace is first real Tesla competitor
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 13, 2018


The first real Tesla competitor comes from a somewhat unexpected car manufacturer: Jaguar launches its I-Pace, a big and strikingly good-looking fully electric cross-over to compete with the Tesla Model S and X, which have been monopolizing this market segment […]


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François Bellot: ‘Belgium’s mobility is hostage of the institutional mess’
Félix Bouland Posted On June 7, 2018


Belgium’s Mobility Minister, François Bellot (MR), is fed up by the Regions’ inaction toward a better mobility. He thinks the country’s institutional system prevents any global vision to be followed by acts. Called back to a post of Minister by […]


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T&E: ‘Industry on the brake in developing electric car’
Joris Van Roy Posted On April 24, 2018


“You better wait until 2021 to buy an electric car”, William Todts, director of European environmental NGO, Transport and Energy (T&E), advises in Humo Magazine. Reason? “The automotive industry is holding its foot on the brake in developing electric cars […]


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‘Why in 15 years nobody will buy a car anymore’
Joris Van Roy Posted On March 17, 2018


“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 […]


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‘German premium brands no longer invincible’
Joris Van Roy Posted On March 6, 2018


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 […]


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Luc Bontemps (Febiac): ‘Use big data to enhance traffic safety’
Tony Verhelle Posted On February 28, 2018


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 […]


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Frank Van Gool (Renta): ‘You can’t change course abruptly in leasing’
Tony Verhelle Posted On February 28, 2018


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 […]


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Joeri Thijs (Greenpeace): ‘car manufacturers continue cheating’
Tony Verhelle Posted On January 9, 2018


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 […]


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Le Monde: ‘France has to reduce speed limit to save lives’
Joris Van Roy Posted On December 29, 2017


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 […]


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US cities sue oil companies for climate change
Gert Verhoeven Posted On September 29, 2017


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 […]


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Shell doesn’t give up on petrol and diesel yet
Iwan Kneuts Posted On September 28, 2017


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 […]


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‘Economic nationalism is the ugly face of the electric car’
Joris Van Roy Posted On September 21, 2017


“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 […]


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Pascal Smet: ‘commuters to Brussels have to carpool or pay!’
Félix Bouland Posted On September 15, 2017


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 […]


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Covering of Antwerp Ring no cure for traffic jams
Iwan Kneuts Posted On August 18, 2017


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 […]


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“Kingdom of the electric car? An illusion!”
Joris Van Roy Posted On August 3, 2017


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 […]


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“Ban on combustion engines not as ambitious as it looks”
Iwan Kneuts Posted On July 27, 2017


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 […]


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Fuel cell car viable alternative from 2025 on?
Joris Van Roy Posted On July 26, 2017


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 […]


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“Elon Musk doesn’t trust artificial intelligence”
Joris Van Roy Posted On July 18, 2017


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 […]


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‘Electric’ turning point?
Tony Verhelle Posted On July 14, 2017


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 […]


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“Is the electric car really good for the environment?”
Joris Van Roy Posted On July 10, 2017


“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 […]


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Electric driving picks up speed… ‘thanks to Tesla’
Joris Van Roy Posted On July 4, 2017


“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 […]


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Is there a future for the autonomous car?
Tony Verhelle Posted On May 30, 2017


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 […]


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Traffic War Games
Tony Verhelle Posted On May 24, 2017


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 […]


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Netherlands: sales of plug-in cars halved
Gert Verhoeven Posted On May 23, 2017


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 […]


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“Oil will remain cheap for a long time”
Joris Van Roy Posted On May 17, 2017


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 […]


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Geert Noels: “What if Musk lived in Belgium?”
Joris Van Roy Posted On May 15, 2017


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 […]


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