Although last year less motorbikes were sold, sales went up the first three months of 2018 with 6%, as is stated by Belgian sector federation Febiac. A remarkable detail: growth is mainly concentrated in provinces with lots of mobility problems. […]
Dutch manufacturer 2GetThere is going to build a self-driving bus for Brussels Airport. Tests with the bus are planned by 2020, first passengers would be allowed as from 2021. The driver-less bus will take visitors from the national airport to […]
The Walloon government has freed a 400.000 euro budget to develop the charging infrastructure for electrical vehicles. Goal is to have almost 10.000 electrical vehicles on the road by 2020, able to charge their batteries on the public roads in […]
The Californian Division of Occupational Safety and Health has started an investigation into Tesla’s car factory in Fremont (USA), as was announced on Wednesday by the department of the western American state, responsible for safety at work. No reports on […]
When cities and municipalities would switch to smart LED lights instead of keeping the conventional lighting systems they could save 680 million euro, according to calculations of Belgian technology federation Agoria. Political party N-VA already suggested to switch to LED […]
Cowboy, the intelligent and permanent to the internet connected electric bike developed by a Brussels’ start-up is to hit the street. The sleek bike already won the Start-up Award at the 2017 Eurobike in Friedrichshafen (Germany) when presented the first […]
July 1st Brussels public transport company MIVB/STIB will inaugurate the new ‘full electric’ bus line 33, connecting the Brussels uptown and downtown, from Dansaert, over Grote Markt, to Louiza. The buses on the line will be the recently bought Polish Solaris […]
The Belgian Françoise Chombar, CEO of Melexis, has received the ‘Global Prize for Women Entrepreneurs’ in New York. The prestigious prize rewards the most successful career woman. Four criteria The leading lady of chip producing company Melexis was chosen out […]
Flemish opposition party sp.a proposes to provide a 1.000 euro premium for people willing to have their old polluting car scrapped. “Mostly old diesels without a soot filter”, explains Sp.a leader Joris Vandenbroucke. “They are emitting unhealthy soot, particles and […]
Last week General Motors (GM) announced it will have to lay off some 1.500 of its staff working in small car production as Americans are turning away from small cars in favour of big SUVs, crossovers and pickup trucks. Fuel […]
The Japanese airbag supplier Takata has announced that the transfer of its principal activities to the American supplier Key Safety Systems has been realized and that the brand Takata is going to disappear. Meanwhile the CEO, Shigehisa Takada, the heir […]
Anders Hedin Invest Group, a Swedish car group, buys once again 5 Mercedes dealerships in the Antwerp area. The Belgian car dealers are vulnerable because of low profit and many foreign car groups show interest. The five Mercedes dealerships were […]
Car sickness is one of the most frequently occurring forms of motion sickness or kinetosis, as the illness is called in medical terms. With the advent of autonomous driving cars people will be more prone to car sickness because they […]
The scarcer the space, the more you pay for it, and prices for parking space differ a lot in the Netherlands, depending on the city or region you’re living in. This seems to be the conclusion of a study executed […]
In Belgium the sales of Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV) are still growing. Where 30% of all sold cars in 2017 were SUVs, this could easily grow to 35% this year. The sales results of the first quarter of this year […]
Families with young children can borrow child’s bikes in the Fietsbieb in Diepenbeek (Belgium). A laudable initiative of Beweging.net Limburg (Movement Limburg), because “children are growing fast and before they reach the age of 12 they already have had at […]
Bus manufacturer Van Hool is going to build 58 hybrid articulated tram-buses for the Norwegian city of Trondheim. It is the biggest order ever for this kind of vehicles. Van Hool has signed an agreement with Nettbuss and Tide, two […]
The average CO2 emissions of new cars have increased for the first time in ten years, as is the conclusion of a study executed by research agency Jato in London. The reason for it, according to Jato, is the sales […]
Electric car maker Tesla is calling back 123.000 Model S cars built before April 2016. Reason is excessive corrosion that was found on the bolts of the power steering on cars operating in cold climates. Like Norway for instance, where […]
With electric cars still too expensive and diesel falling in a somewhat ‘hysterical’ disgrace, the car on natural compressed gas (CNG) has its window of opportunity. Today it might be the cheapest alternative of all, as newspaper De Standaard calculated. […]
This weekend media announced that grocery discounter Lidl would sell second-hand BMWs. Today we have more detailed information. Where you can order your young second-hand BMW, only online, in Lidl’s own shops or in special shops, is not clear yet. […]
The Belgian start-up Sharemypark has been sold to its Irish competitor Parkpnp. The transaction amount has not been disclosed, the target is clear: revolutionize smart parking in Europe. Sharemypark (formerly Ditopark) is a Belgian start-up that wanted to be “the […]
Volvo Cars Gent is going to invest an estimated 100 million extra to start building the first 70.000 Chinese Lynk & Co 01 crossovers for Europe by the end of 2019. Whether this will mean more personnel too for the […]
Supermarket chain Lidl is planning to sell BMWs. According to the German Manager Magazin the Schwarz Group, the holding of Lidl and Kaufland among others, is trading in its Audi company cars for BMWs. Selling after six months Audi was […]
France is still betting on its own high-speed train technology for future transport. The government decided to order 100 new TGVs (Train à Grand Vitesse) with French train builder Alstom, merging with German Siemens later this year. French Minister of […]
Seat chairman Luca de Meo has announced that the Spanish car maker will be launching a full electric vehicle in 2020. The electric Seat will be made in Germany, in VW’s Zwickau factory. “We will present our first fully electric […]
There is an acute shortage of car mechanics. According to sector organization Traxio “there are more than 2.000 vacancies, whereas only 1.350 students ‘car engineering’ finished their studies last school year.” Technology Repairing cars, however, is a real technology job […]
French car manufacturer group PSA has announced it will be producing 300.000 automatic gearboxes (under Aisin licence) per year in Valenciennes (north of France). You win some, you lose some. Yesterday Ford announced that it will close its gearbox factory […]
American car manufacturer Ford wants to sell its gearbox factory near Bordeaux (France). Is Ford gradually leaving Europe? In fact the American car manufacturer is confirming a ten year movement of withdrawal out of Europe. It started in 2008 when […]
German carmaker VW has announced that it will invest an additional 340 million dollar in its Chattanooga plant in the US. It wants to produce an extra urban SUV over there. This announcement is clearly also meant to appease tensions […]
In Germany a dissatisfied Volkswagen client who bought a VW Tiguan with emission-cheating software will get a brand new car without any expenses, as is the decision of a judge in Hamburg (Germany). German car manufacturer Volkswagen had installed a […]
The last two years the number of accidents with an e-bike almost doubled (+90%), according to traffic safety institute Vias. Electric bicycles are an enormous success in Belgium, they even make people climb on a bike who didn’t ride on […]
German car maker Audi announced on Thursday it will bring 20 ‘electric’ models (EV and hybrid) to market by 2025, starting with its first ‘Tesla hunter’, the full electric Audi e-tron SUV to be launched at a company summit in […]
According to anonymous Tesla employees interviewed by American news channel CNBC, the Californian electric car maker is struggling with quality problems with up to 40% of the Model 3 parts and is loosing too much time in fixing this. This […]
Passenger cars should have an Event Data Recorder (EDR) on board, a so-called ‘black box’ that registers all kind of information about the car, the driving circumstances and the driver. “In case of an emergency it would be a lot […]
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