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Jim Hackett, Ford’s CEO since 2017, is leaving the company and will be succeeded by James D. Farley, at the moment COO of the Dearborn-based car manufacturer. Farley is a real ‘car guy’ who began his career at Ford in […]
The Belgian Federal government has appointed Benoît Gilson (46) as Infrabel’s new CEO. He follows in the footsteps of Luc Lallemand, who left for the French railway infrastructure operator at the beginning of this year. Ann Billiau has since led […]
Luca de Meo is officially the new CEO of Renault since the 1st of July. He has started his new job with a bang. After taking the chief designer of Seat, Alejandro Mesonero-Romanos, with him (announced last Monday), he has […]
Thierry Bolloré, the former CEO of Renault, has been appointed as the new CEO of the Tata-owned car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover. The Indian group Tata Motors has communicated that Mr. Bolloré will take over from Ralph Speth on the […]
The American company Fisker, which is working on the development of the Ocean, an electric urban 4×4 (SUV), announced on Monday that it would go public via a merger with a subsidiary of the investment company Apollo, valuing it at […]
Elon Musk celebrates his victory against critical short-sellers in a typical way. Anyone visiting Tesla’s webshop will find a striking addition: bright red shorts. The shorts are provided with the car manufacturer’s logo at the front and the inscription ‘sexy’ […]
Citroën’s new, small, two-seater EV is now available for sale in 39 shops of the French electronics and book retailer Fnac Darty. Starting from 6 000 euros or 20 euros per month, the Citroën Ami is a microcar aimed at […]
On Wednesday, Luca de Meo, former head of Seat, is taking control of Renault as the new CEO. The Italian-born 53-year-old gets the difficult task of putting back on its feet a company traumatized by the fall of Ghosn, shaken […]
The nine billion euros rescue package that Lufthansa has negotiated with the German state council could fail for lack of sufficient support from its shareholders. The German billionaire, Heinz Hermann Thiele, who recently increased his stake in Lufthansa to 15%, […]
The next Lotus sports car to be launched in 2021 will be powered by an internal combustion engine (ICE). But after that last gasoline hurrah, all of the brand’s future products will be EVs, starting with the Evija hypercar. Lotus […]
How is the car business waking up after the corona confinement? Belgian newspaper L’Echo asked Stéphane Sertang, CEO of the car dealer group Ginion, how he sees things. Ginion Group covers a certain amount of (usually premium or high-end luxury) […]
There’s a possibility that the VW Group CEO Herbert Diess will be gently led to the exit. On Monday, Volkswagen announced that COO Ralf Brandstätter (51) will take over as CEO of the Volkswagen brand, starting the 1st of July. […]
Today, MG launches an electric SUV model in the B-segment on the Belgian market. Apart from the British name tag, it is the first fully Chinese EV-SUV available here. We drove it, and it is something to reckon with. With […]
Both visionary and controversially, Elon Musk has more than a reason to dance these days, as it looks he is ‘on schedule’ to cash his first 346 million dollars bonus of the 50 billion he will get if all targets […]
Axel Miller (54), ex-CEO of D’Ieteren, and former CEO of Belgium’s now state-owned Dexia Bank found a new job as Chief of Cabinet at the Belgian liberal party MR. He fills in the vacancy Gaëlle Smet left when she moved […]
Carlos Ghosn, former number one of the Alliance Renault/Nissan/Mitsubishi, has arrived in Libanon on Monday, despite the fact that he was confined to stay in Japan. There he was waiting to be judged in a fraud affair that broke out […]
Travis Kalanick (43), the former CEO of ride-hailing giant Uber, slammed the door shut at the company he co-founded in 2009. It didn’t leave him a pauper, as he first cashed in most of his shares for a tidy sum […]
It’s now official. According to the French news agency AFP, the Board of Renault would prefer actual Seat CEO, Luca de Meo, to become the new boss of the French car manufacturer. The rumor was already running for a month […]
California-based Fisker Inc., the manufacturer of eco-friendly electric vehicles, has opened reservations for the Fisker Ocean, an electric luxury SUV arriving in 2022. It will feature ‘a new owner experience’ as it would be available starting at 379 dollars a […]
It’s official: Dutchman Bram Schot, who is leading Audi since the fall of Rupert Stadler, is leaving Audi. German Markus Düsmann, ex-BMW, is taking the helm from April. Schot faced difficult times with Audi having to cut costs drastically and […]
Flanders already committed itself a while ago to DAB+ (Digital Audio Broadcasting); now Wallonia has jumped on the bandwagon. More and more instances want people to move from FM radio to DAB+, but the consumer is only following hesitantly. In […]
On Thursday, Volkswagen presented the eighth generation of its Golf, the most successful model in its history. With all hopes put on the fully electric I.D. 3, the Golf’s success isn’t vital to the company’s future anymore, but it remains […]
The non-profit association, Freesponsible, wants to give six million ‘orphan’ motorists a voice again. It wants to free them from guilty conscience driving a car and at the same time urge them to drive and act responsibly. “We represent the […]
The car- and scooter-sharing service, Poppy, which is a subsidiary from VW importer, D’Ieteren, wants to become profitable within two to three years with new CEO Sylvain Niset. Because whichever way you look at it, the model of car-sharing services […]
Ferdinand Piëch, former ‘patriarch’ of the Volkswagen Group, has died at the age of 82. According to the family’s lawyer, Piëch collapsed at a restaurant in Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria (Germany) where he was dining with his wife. He was rushed […]
The Umicore Eclipse, an electric racecar built by KU Leuven and Thomas More College students, debuts in the Formula Student championship today. Formula Electric Belgium, as the team is called, will compete against other student teams. The first race takes […]
The world’s leading manufacturer of charging stations for electric cars is partnering with Belgian company Smappee. They will offer a ‘smart charging’ solution that will manage the charging depending on the needs and network availability. With already more than 75.000 […]
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, […]
French carpooling specialist, BlaBlaCar, has started to make a profit last year, twelve years after its launch. Time for the company to diversify its activity with, among other things, the purchase of the French railways’ Ouibus, a future partnership with […]
The network of Shell’s Belgian filling stations will be expanded by 56 stations. Belgian Shell NV will collaborate with the Bornem fuel specialist, MAES Energy & Mobility, known for its green-red logo. The financial details of the partnership were not […]
According to Liège University Professor and specialist in energy, Damien Ernst, the evolution of batteries in terms of price and capacity will spell the end of internal combustion engines for new cars by 2025. Optimistic – some might say idyllic […]
At the start of the interview, Audi’s newly appointed CEO, Bram Schot (57), shows a picture of some artwork he just bought. A life-size portrait of former F1 driver and legend Ayrton Senna made of pieces of jeans fabric. He […]
Anton ‘Toni’ Piëch, great-grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the Porsche brand and Volkswagen, unveiled on Tuesday in Geneva the prototype of a luxurious and extravagant electric sports car, the ‘Mark Zero’, the first car of his young company ‘Piëch […]
Finally the Renault board has decided to turn the Ghosn page. In a board meeting on Thursday, Jean-Dominique Senard (actual Michelin president) will be appointed president and his CEO will be Thierry Bolloré, the former COO and already replacing Ghosn […]
The Japanese court has rejected the demand of Carlos Ghosn to be temporarily released. This came as no surprise and the Renault CEO (and former Nissan President) risks to stay imprisoned until his trial, expected to begin in a few […]
