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Audi and Hyundai join forces for fuel-cell development
Félix Bouland Posted On June 21, 2018


On Wednesday German car manufacturer Audi and South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai announced their technological partnership for the development of the hydrogen fuel-cell. Stronger together “This cooperation is the best way to get any technological advantage with attractive long term […]


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Electric car: China leads, Europe falls back
Félix Bouland Posted On June 21, 2018


Thanks to China’s incentives toward electric cars, the market is booming. Numerous European car manufacturers are investing billions into BEVs and PHEVs for that market, seven times more than in Europe. Last year car manufacturers announced they will invest nearly […]


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Thalys invests 300 million euro in new trains and lines
Félix Bouland Posted On June 20, 2018


French-Belgian rail company Thalys launches a new 300 million euro investment plan that will bring new and renovated trains, a new Premium Mini offer and three new train lines. In 2018 Thalys has transported about 1,9 million passengers and has […]


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Car supplier Magna will produce electric cars in China
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 19, 2018


The Austrian-Canadian car industry supplier Magna Steyr is going to produce electric cars for the Chinese market, as was announced by the specialized magazine Automobilwoche. Magna is going to conclude two joint ventures in order to realize this, both with […]


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Porsche: new electric Taycan to be built in Stuttgart
Félix Bouland Posted On June 18, 2018


Porsche’s Zuffenhausen plant in Stuttgart has been chosen to build the company’s new fully electric model. This ‘crazy bet’ involves the construction of a new assembly line in an already packed plant. All employees invest themselves and their salary into […]


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Brussels taxi drivers summon Uber drivers before court
Luc Joris Posted On June 18, 2018


Twenty taxi drivers from the Belgian Cab Federation (Febet) are taking steps to request a ban on Uber BV (in the Netherlands) and ten drivers working on the platform. They want Uber drivers to stop driving in Brussels with a […]


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Can Umicore play a leading role in the recycling of batteries?
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 18, 2018


Financial analyst Berenberg sees an important role for Belgian Umicore in the battery industry, not only producing materials for their production but also recycling them afterwards. In a new report Berenberg is very positive about Umicore’s future. Analyst Sebastian Bray […]


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Fairwind: will the small wind turbine provider finally run at full speed?
Luc Joris Posted On June 15, 2018


Fairwind, a Walloon company active in the manufacturing and marketing of vertical-axis wind turbines, has just installed its 26th wind turbine. Ten years after a difficult start it is seeing its order book filling up now. 85 MWh every year […]


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Toyota invests one billion dollar in the Grab taxi app
Luc Joris Posted On June 14, 2018


The Japanese giant Toyota announced on Wednesday an investment of 1 billion dollar in Grab, specialist in chauffeur-driven passenger cars in Southeast Asia. Grab, Uber’s Singaporean competitor, is strengthening thus its presence in services in the face of a rapidly […]


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Jaguar I-Pace is first real Tesla competitor
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 13, 2018


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 […]


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9% of Tesla personnel has to leave
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 13, 2018


American car manufacturer Tesla is having hard times. After the production problems with the Model 3 and pressure from shareholders, CEO Elon Musk announced that 9% of the employees will have to leave the company. The passing years Tesla has grown […]


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France: Paris needs plan B for Autolib
Félix Bouland Posted On June 12, 2018


Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, met with car manufacturers and mobility service providers this Monday to study other solutions of shared electric mobility in the capital. Autolib, created and operated by French group Bolloré, is turning out to be a […]


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ArcelorMittal to produce bioethanol out of blast furnace’s gases
Félix Bouland Posted On June 12, 2018


Giant of the steel industry ArcelorMittal announced on Monday that it will produce bioethanol from the gases coming out of its Ghent blast furnace. The production of 80 million litres per year is estimated to start by 2020. The world’s […]


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Tesla: a never ending story or a vanishing dream?
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 11, 2018


Is the dream of Tesla founder Elon Musk vanishing? According to the American website Second Measure already a quarter of potential clients for the Model 3 have reclaimed their deposit for a purchase. Tesla is practically every week in the […]


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Traffic jams drive Antwerp citizens to super fast e-bikes
Luc Joris Posted On June 11, 2018


Statistics are rarely so revealing: the number of speed pedelecs in Belgium has risen in the past six months from 6.760 to 9.521. Almost half of all new super fast e-bikes, up to 45 km per hour, were purchased in […]


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Revolutionary (Belgian) gearbox struggles to break through
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 11, 2018


For 20 years now Filip De Mazière has been developing a revolutionary, environmentally friendly gearbox. But the most difficult part is still awaiting. “To put something disruptive on the market is far from easy”, he says. De Mazière and his […]


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Daimler presents full electric Freightliner semi-trucks
Joris Van Roy Posted On June 8, 2018


Daimler’s Trucks and Buses division presents two full electric Freightliner semi-trucks, its most popular brand in the US, to be tested from this year on by some 30 clients before going into mass production by 2021. 400 km range The […]


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France: electric company cars share growing by 84%
Félix Bouland Posted On June 7, 2018


With advancements in technology, the electric car is becoming more interesting for company’s fleet each and every day. In April, France has recorded a major growth of the electric car share in company cars. Leasing companies are also offering better […]


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Tesla: and now for the good news
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 7, 2018


It’s not easy to keep the American electric car manufacturer out of the spotlights, lately with not so good news. At the recent shareholders’ meeting Tesla founder Elon Musk survived a motion of (dis)trust and can stay on as CEO. […]


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Uber starts electric bike-sharing service ‘Jump’ in Europe
Luc Joris Posted On June 7, 2018


Uber jumps on the electric bike-sharing market in Germany. Uber’s top executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, announced it on Wednesday at a conference in Berlin. Uber will introduce its electric bike-sharing program this summer in Berlin. It will then be extended to […]


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Daimler to invest 1 billion euro in new Hungarian full-flex plant
Joris Van Roy Posted On June 6, 2018


German car maker Daimler is investing 1 billion euro in a second car manufacturing plant in Hungary. It’s the group’s first ‘full-flex’ plant being able to build Mercedes cars with different sizes, from compact to rear-wheel drive sedans and different […]


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Volvo Cars Gent will start battery assembly
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 5, 2018


Volvo Cars Gent is planning to build a battery assembly factory near its car assembly plant to assemble battery cells into battery packs for its future electric models. The Swedish car manufacturer Volvo (daughter of Chinese Geely) plans to build […]


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Fiat Chrysler goes for luxury brands and electrification
Tony Verhelle Posted On June 4, 2018


Fiat Chrysler Auto CEO, Sergio Marchionne, has presented his latest 5 year plan for the company, with stress on the luxury brands and the Fiat commercial vehicles. Marchionne leaves in the beginning of 2019. It was  on the FCA proving […]


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Bird shared electric scooter taking California by storm
Félix Bouland Posted On June 1, 2018


The American start-up Bird started to offer its shared electric scooters for rent not even a year ago and it is already valued at more than one billion dollars. Bird uses the pick-up/drop-off anywhere method, causing authorities to take action. […]


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Waymo expands robot taxi fleet with 62.000 Chrysler minivans
Félix Bouland Posted On June 1, 2018


Waymo, autonomous car branch of Google/Alphabet, has ordered with FCA 62.000 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid. The Californian company will introduce its driverless taxi service by the end of the year. Having announced back in January that Waymo would order ‘thousands’ of […]


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24-year-old Estonian to challenge Uber with Taxify
Félix Bouland Posted On May 31, 2018


The Estonian ride-hailing company Taxify has been valued at 1 billion dollar after a 175 million dollar backing investment from a consortium chaired by Daimler. Only 24-year-old, Markus Villig, founder and CEO, plans on taking Uber at its own game. […]


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More than 3 million electric cars sold worldwide
Félix Bouland Posted On May 31, 2018


The International Energy Agency’s latest report shows that more than one million electric cars (EVs and PHEVs) were sold last year, representing a growth of 57%. More than half of them were sold in China. Increasing steadily With 1,1 million […]


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ComOn: ‘Tinder for carpooling’ in Brussels
Tony Verhelle Posted On May 30, 2018


The Brussels government launches ComOn, a new app for carpooling that wants to ‘match’ people looking for transportation in the same neighbourhood, a kind of Tinder “to make car-sharing sexy”. Apart from the Brussels citizens trying to be mobile, Brussels […]


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Vias: ‘Quads are extremely dangerous’
Félix Bouland Posted On May 29, 2018


Although the Brussels Region, Charleroi and Mons have prohibited their use, quad bikes have been involved in 222 accidents in the last three years. According to the Vias Institute, “quad bikes are extremely dangerous”. 8 killed and 214 injured Since […]


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ALD Automotive to offer ‘second life’ lease cars
Félix Bouland Posted On May 29, 2018


Belgium’s company car market leader ALD Automotive now offers leases on low mileage second-hand cars. At 100 to 200 euro less than a new car, it is mainly aimed at small companies. Strong market In spite of increasing taxes on […]


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Netherlands: hardly 3% cars sold in 2017 was electric
Hilde Van Raemdonck Posted On May 28, 2018


Last year 8.200 full electric cars were sold in the Netherlands, against 4.200 in 2016. There is some growth but with hardly 3% (2,66% to be precise), we can’t call it a real breakthrough. Norway has most e-cars There figures […]


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Volvo already sold 80.000 XC40s to be built in Ghent
Luc Joris Posted On May 25, 2018


Volvo Car Gent (Belgium) is reaping the benefits of the excellent sales of its compact SUV XC40. Eight months after the sales started, 80.000 orders have already been received for the XC40, which won the ‘European car of the year […]


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New Citroën C5 Aircross will be built in French Rennes
Tony Verhelle Posted On May 25, 2018


The new Citroën C5 Aircross, the newest SUV from Citroën, will be built in the Rennes factory in the west of France (Brittany). The future of the 57 year old factory is thereby safe. 57 years ago the site in […]


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Daimler will build electric Mercedes in French Hambach factory
Tony Verhelle Posted On May 23, 2018


The German car manufacturer Daimler has chosen the French Smart factory in Hambach (North-East) to produce its first Mercedes in France, a compact electric SUV of the announced EQ electric car range. The promise was made a few months ago […]


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‘Tesla to fix Model 3’s braking flaws remotely’
Joris Van Roy Posted On May 23, 2018


After American consumer NGO ‘Consumer Reports’ (CR) found some serious braking flaws while testing the Tesla Model 3, the company says it will fix the problem with a remote firmware update, an industry first. Together with a disappointing experience with […]


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