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Recently, a study of HR service provider Acerta concluded that banning company cars would be bad for the environment. Chief Economist Etienne de Callataÿ (Orcadia Asset Management) contradicts this and gives four significant arguments. The Acerta study has found that […]
More than 50 Flemish entrepreneurs have written an open letter to Belgian politicians outlining 36 proposals for a better policy. Besides a radical reform of the Belgian fiscal system and a new view on migration, the entrepreneurs also have recommendations […]
How will your mobility look like in twenty years from now? French newspaper, Le Figaro, probed several experts for their future visions. “Mobility solutions will be abundant, tailor-made, and invoiced per kilometer.” When people try to envision mobility in the […]
Federal Mobility Minister, François Bellot (MR), emits doubts about the new Brussels government’s mobility plan. He points out to a theoretical approach that will be hard to put in place. Plus, he says, it will harm the Region, as it […]
In 1920, Maarten Steinbuch’s great-grandfather, George F. Steinbuch, wrote in his textbook that “the days of the electric car were over”. The reason for its popularity in those days were female drivers because a combustion engine was too hard for […]
On Tuesday, Lee A. Iacocca, an American car legend known as ‘the father of the iconic Ford Mustang’ and ‘savior of Chrysler,’ has died at the age of 94 at his home in Bel Air, California. According to the family, […]
The possible merger between Renault and FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) is not greeted everywhere with the same enthusiasm. Some days ago, FCA launched a 50/50 merger proposal to Renault. The Japanese partners of Renault within the alliance were a bit […]
While various political parties are calling for public transport to become free, the Walloon Transport Operator (OTW), the head office of the TEC, sets the record straight with solid arguments. No modal shift from cars to buses will happen because […]
Big automotive concerns are looking to forge partnerships. Is the industry on the threshold of a worldwide consolidation spree? A much-debated subject. Four reasons why ‘frenemies’ should cooperate and two why these constructions might be doomed to fail. Over the […]
Marc Descheemaecker, former CEO of Belgian rail NMBS/SNCB, pleads in a column in De Standard on Wednesday for a new modern international train station in Schaerbeek. Pick up the old idea of connecting it by aerial cableway to Brussels Airport […]
With important elections coming soon, the sister car magazines AutoGids (Flemish) and Le Moniteur Automobile (French) have asked the major political parties in Belgium what their views are on mobility of the future. Mobility problems are always scoring higher on […]
In a public letter in the press more than 20 Belgian cultural and business opinion leaders call for a joined vision about the future. A vision that transcends the actual disagreements between political parties. The authors of the letter note […]
The group purchase for electric cars launched by the Flemish government has resulted in the buying of 80 electric cars until now. Flemish Energy Minister, Lydia Peeters (Open Vld) talks about a big success. Since the beginning of the year, […]
Former Belgian Mobility Card (BMC) boss, Pierre-Paul Bertieaux, thinks the RER/GEM train will never see the light of day if the pricing system doesn’t change. He suggests getting ticketing and pricing out of the operators’ hands and creating a dedicated […]
After the recent Geneva Motor Show the reactions are mitigated. For one, the EV is now ready to really conquer the market. But there are also big worries: Brexit, Trump taxes, European CO2 fines, customer hesitation and last but not […]
For short-haul flights, electric planes could use small regional airports. This would help reduce global CO2 emissions. A growth stop for regional airports, as proposed by the majority in the Dutch House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer), is a shortsighted point […]
After how much time does an electric vehicle (EV) gets ‘greener’ than a petrol car (ICE or Internal Combustion Engine)? The TV magazine, Auto Mobile, of the French)speaking Belgian national television channel RTBF has calculated that it takes… 697.612 kilometres. […]
Denis Gorteman, CEO of Belgian car importer D’Ieteren, is clear: “If we’re told that the internal combustion engine (ICE) has to die in 2030 or 2035, we’ll do it. It’s the only way and it will work, but we have […]
Reacting to the survey published on Monday about the multi-modal use of transport solutions, MP Joris Vandenbroucke (sp.a) deplores there is no alternative for the car. Only one out of six Belgians sees the multi-modal use of transport facilities as […]
In 2019 a whole bunch of new electric models will come on the market, but it’s still peanuts compared to the entire market. Not the great breakthrough yet…? A few years ago, 2018 was promised to be the year the […]
The Christmas speech from Belgian king Filip didn’t go down very well with a lot of Belgian citizens. Citizens were upset to see a crackling wood fire in the background, while the king was talking about the climate. “The ultimate […]
Every year mobility club VAB organizes a family car of the year election and in the category electric and hybrid vehicles the Nissan Leaf was the winner in 2018, followed by the Hyundai Kona EV and the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. […]
Joost Kaesemans, communication director at Febiac, the Belgian association of motoring manufacturers and importers, gives his views on car propulsion of the future. “The Brussels region is doing a survey lately on how a possible ban on cars with an […]
Is the world’s population explosion threatening the efforts we’re about to do to save the climate for further warming up? “It doesn’t matter how many people live on earth, as long as we manage to create a society without burning […]
In his column in the newspapers, De Tijd and L’Echo, Belgian economist and founder of Econopolis, Geert Noels, asks himself whether “Elon Musk is to become the new Nicola Tesla”, the brilliant inventor Musk named his company after, but also […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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