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February 23, 2019

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Denis Gorteman: ‘If ICE has to die in 2030, let’s decide it now’

Tony Verhelle Posted On January 29, 2019

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 […]

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Vandenbroucke: ‘There’s no alternative to the car’

Tony Verhelle Posted On January 22, 2019

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 […]

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Will 2019 finally be the year of the electric car?

Tony Verhelle Posted On December 28, 2018

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 […]

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Pieter Boussemaere: ‘wood fire is bad for health but good for climate’

Hilde Van Raemdonck Posted On December 27, 2018

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 […]

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Flemish families choose Nissan Leaf as family car of the year

Tony Verhelle Posted On November 30, 2018

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. […]

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Joost Kaesemans (Febiac): “Electric car is not the only solution”

Tony Verhelle Posted On November 16, 2018

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 […]

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‘Is the world’s population explosion threatening our climate efforts?’

Hilde Van Raemdonck Posted On November 6, 2018

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 […]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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“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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