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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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
