According to the Walloon Agency for Road Safety (AWSR), micro-cars or quadricycles are twice as more deadly than mopeds when an accident occurs. In four years, Wallonia counted 182 injured passengers and four deaths. The Walloon Agency for Road Safety […]
Lithium Werks, the company of former Booking.com founder, Kees Koolen, will invest together with Chinese partners and banks 1,6 million euro in a new lithium-ion battery factory in the Yangtze region in China. Lithium Werks will provide approximately one fourth […]
In 2017 only 6% of all car drivers in Belgium had to claim damage on their insurance company, an all-time low and a milestone for the sector, Hans De Cuyper, president of the sector’s association, Assuralia, and senior of AG […]
For safety reasons, Amsterdam (the Netherlands) is planning to ban mopeds from the bicycle paths but not consistently. The situation will be judged street by street. Other cities in the Netherlands might follow. Earlier several cities in the Netherlands were […]
Cycling on an e-bike is far from as dangerous as was assumed until now. The risk of ending up in a hospital is just as high as the chance of being injured as an ordinary cyclist. SafetyNL (VeiligheidNL) draws this […]
BMW has chosen to team up with Belgian material supplier and recycling group, Umicore, and Swedish battery manufactuere start-up, Northvolt, to create the fist fully European battery supply chain. The three actors will collaborate on the assembly, from the procurement […]
American car manufacturer, Ford, prefers to close down its French gearbox plant near Bordeaux (France) to a take-over by Punch Powerglide based in Strasbourg, a company ran by Belgian businessman, Guido Dumarey. Belgian entrepreneur In the near future, Ford will […]
Just as this year’s Paris Motor Show closes its doors, Chief Commissioner Jean-Claude Girot confirms that the event welcomed more than one million visitors even though it was five days shorter than before and many car makers weren’t present. Back […]
This year, the Belgian railway company, NMBS /SNCB, will start placing ‘anti-terror poles’ or bollards at the entrance of some twenty train stations in the country. They will replace the concrete blocks that had already been placed temporarily to prevent […]
At this year’s Paris Motor Show, BMW CEO Harald Krüger admits that the brand is going through tough times because of the new WLTP regulations and the US-China trade war. For the future, the CEO aims at 25% sales of […]
In Belgium electric car sales far from a success, while electric bicycles, and more specifically the speed pedelecs, are booming. The Bloomberg agency expects the future of e-mobility will be rather on two wheels than on four, especially in overcrowded […]
The company ‘Drone-future’ wants to start a pilot project in Malines (Belgium) early next year to deliver parcels by a drone. “We want to be the first in the world to come out with a system that makes it possible, […]
Asian airline company, Singapore Airlines, is relaunching its longest flight in the world: a direct flight from Singapore to New York (US) taking 18 hours and 45 minutes. For the flights the A350-900 ULR (Ultra Long Range) is used. The […]
Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen Group, has declared that the newly decided EU restrictions on CO2 emissions can endanger up to 100.000 jobs within the group. “A transformation at this speed is practically unmanageable, in 10 years one third […]
Handicapped by the escalating trade war between the US and China, the German car manufacturer, BMW, has announced that it will invest an additional 3,6 billion euro in its local production in China. By doing so, BMW is the first […]
The Rotterdam district of Rozenburg is starting a trial to heat houses with hydrogen. Steden, the network operator for gas and electricity in South Holland, announced this on Thursday. It is the first time that houses are heated directly with hydrogen. […]
According to a study published by the French consumer association, UFC, the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an electric car is lower than that of a petrol or diesel car if you keep it more than 4 years. The […]
French companies Eurovia, Vinci Autoroutes and Marini-Ermont have presented the first kilometre of motorway realized with recycled materials on Tuesday. A new mobile plant chops the old aggregate and transforms it to form the new layer of road on location. […]
On Tuesday, the first of 200 planned public charging stations was officially inaugurated by Brussels Alderwoman for Mobility, Els Ampe (Open Vld). The charging station is situated at the Eeuwfeestlaan, next to the Atomium. Goal of 200 charging points EV-Point […]
According to news agency Bloomberg, German car manufacturer, Daimler, and Chinese car maker, Geely, have concluded to create a new company that will organize car sharing services in China. Daimler and Geely are supposed to create a new company on […]
The insurance branch of Belgian state bank, Belfius, has launched a new feature in the app on Monday, which will enable customers to take a new car insurance entirely digitally in less than two minutes. This new application, called ‘app-normal’, […]
In Halle near Brussels, Belgium’s second public hydrogen (H2) fueling station was opened on Monday, an initiative under the DATS24 fuel station brand of the Colruyt supermarket group. The first dedicated H2 station was opened in April 2016 close to […]
In the race to the electric car Asia has taken the lead. Will the European or American car industry be able to catch up? Much depends on who will win the battery struggle… Due to dieselgate and its still growing […]
A first for the city of Ghent: residents who order their groceries online from the supermarket chain, Lidl, receive their order within two hours by bicycle. In this way, the store chain responds to the radical circulation plan that keeps […]
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 […]
From the second part of 2019, five companies will be carrying out drone test flights for the transport of medical packages between hospitals in Antwerp. The test flights are part of MEDRONA, a project with a financing of 4 million […]
Colruyt and its Dats24 petrol stations are expanding the number of CNG fueling stations in Wallonia. The Liège Region’s first station will be put up by the end of the year in Seraing. Two others will follow starting next year. […]
Chinese car makers aim at conquering the European market with Thunder Power taking home in Charleroi (Belgium) and GAC Motors presenting its latest offering at the Paris Motor Show. According to BMW’s CEO, Harald Krüger, the Chinese may have a […]
British-German railway company, Arriva, is hoping to exploit an international train connection on the Belgian railway network as from December. The company has ordered eight trains to connect three countries. “The train would ride from Luik-Guillemins (Belgium) to Aachen (Germany) […]
From the 12th of October, fuels for vehicles will have other names: diesel becomes B7, petrol E5 (98 octane) or E10 (95 octane) all over the European Union. The reason is clear: travellers all over the union can immediately detect […]
On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron held a gala diner for the automotive industry gathering in Paris for the Motor Show. Macron offered the CEOs a deal: he will renegotiate the future emission standards of 2030 if car manufacturers can […]
In four years, French car manufacturer group PSA has managed to resurrect from the ashes. Chairman of the Managing Board, Carlos Tavares, explains this resurgence and why he thinks batteries are the unstable factor of the automotive future. While important […]
Denmark is planning to forbid the sale of cars driving on diesel or petrol only as from 2030, as was announced by Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, in the Danish Parliament on Tuesday. Denmark wants to ban all cars with […]
German car manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz, has confirmed it is experimenting with a navigation system, which is not only equipped to show the way but also to warn when you’re approaching an ‘unsafe’ neighbourhood. The German car maker already tested the technology […]
As of Tuesday October 2, the Stint is no longer allowed on public roads in the Netherlands. The risk for accidents is too high, as was shown yesterday in a preliminary investigation by the Environmental and Transport Inspectorate (ILT). The […]
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