American electric car company, Tesla, has started judicial procedures against the Canadian state of Ontario because the new government decided to stop incentives for the purchase of Electric Vehicles (EV). Clients can still benefit from a discount until mid-September but […]
For the first seven months of this year, the sales of electrically driven second-hand cars rose 113% in the Netherlands, compared to the same period last year. This could be a significant boost in the transition to electric everyone is […]
NIO, the young Chinese start-up specialized in electric cars, has asked to be listed on Wall Street where it intends to raise 1,8 billion dollars and aims to compete with Tesla. After launching its first car last year in China, […]
In a survey Flemish mobility club VAB asked 2.000 Flemish consumers about their interest in electric cars. This is still very low and the reason is their distrust of the Flemish government: they fear that it might change the present […]
In comparison with 4 years ago the second-hand market in Belgium has risen 17% in 2017. The total value of sold second-hand cars was for the first time more than 2 billion euro in Belgium in 2017. At the same […]
Six weeks after the introduction of the shared electric Troty scooters in Brussels, the city of Liège starts with its own Troty fleet. The red and black shared scooters can achieve a 25 kph speed, have a range of 40 […]
Soon there will be a new car brand on the market: Polestar. CEO Thomas Ingenlath has high hopes for the brand: “We don’t want to kill Tesla, our first aim is to expand the until now poor choice of electric […]
Several manufacturers meet delivery problems at the moment, not because there’s a lack of cars but because the right homologation papers are missing. Last week we already reported about delivery problems for Mercedes in the Benelux, today it becomes clear […]
Daimler CEO, Dieter Zetsche, has announced that Daimler daughter, Smart, will go full electric and sell electrically driven cars from 2020 onward. A brave decision for a manufacturer who hasn’t made money since 20 years. It means that only the […]
Porsche CEO, Oliver Blume, has declared that Porsche wants to save 6 billion euro within the next 3 years because of the lower benefit margins on electric cars. In an interview with the Stuttgarter Zeitung and the Stuttgarter Nachrichten Blume […]
The Swedish group, Bilia, has just created Bilia Holding Flanders to reinforce its presence in Belgium. More and more foreign groups seem to be very interested in the Belgian car distribution, especially of premium brands. Belgian dealers were for a […]
Belgian-Dutch bicycle store chain, Fiets!, is closing five of its shops in Flanders and asks protection against its creditors. The chain was booming thanks to the popularity of the e-bike, but fierce competition of online discounters in the Netherlands cooked […]
BMW is going to recall 323.700 diesel cars throughout Europe as a continuation of the findings in South-Korea, where some 30 BMWs caught fire and more than 100.000 BMWs are also recalled. The reason is the same: the EGR system […]
Alternatives to traditional taxi services are emerging like mushrooms in these Uber times. The Antwerp one-man business, Driverbuddy, is taking a different approach. They drive your car instead of their own, as a personal chauffeur, and can also take on […]
BMW’s free-floating car sharing company, DriveNow, has recorded a loss of 3,25 million euro in 2017 in Belgium. According to its CEO, the government’s mobility plan and company cars are to blame. Back in 2015, BMW and Sixt launched a […]
More than 30 diesel BMWs caught fire in South Korea because of problems with the anti-pollution system. After being called out by the country’s government, BMW apologized and will start a recall procedure. Over the January-July period, more than thirty […]
In July 2.558 motorcycles and scooters were sold in Belgium, 19,3% more than in July 2017. According to sector federation Febiac, the successful sales is a direct consequence of the continuous nice weather conditions. Figures of mopeds increased significantly too, […]
Since March last year and until 2020, Wallonia in conjunction with 79 bicycle dealers is offering free 15-days electric bicycle trials to citizens. More than one out of two bikes tested are purchased. The Carlo Di Antonio (cdH) ‘try an […]
The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) of Detroit will be moved from January to June starting in 2020. Increasing competition from the Las Vegas CES, also planned for January, has motivated the organizer’s choice. Every year, Detroit hosts the […]
The faculty Industrial Engineer Sciences of the KU Leuven is working on a universal charger for electric bicycles at the technology campus in Ghent. Recently the Austrian company, Bike Energy, launched such a charger, but the engineers in Leuven want […]
Clients of KBC Bank will soon be able to buy tickets from public transport company, De Lijn. Car drivers already could pay their parking ticket with the app thanks to a cooperation with 4411, and people having luncheon or eco […]
The small electric car inspired by the Isetta, which was presented last January by the Swiss company, Micro Mobility, has recently been homologated for European roads. The cute micro car should arrive on the market next year. It’s small, it’s […]
The last car of the compact A1 model has rolled off the production line at the Brussels Audi factory. Since 2010 Audi Brussels has built more than 909.000 pieces of the A1, which makes way for the first fully electric […]
On Wednesday, American electric car maker, Tesla, has confirmed again meeting its goal of producing 5.000 Model 3 cars a week and says to gear up to 6.000 a week by the end of August. While production problems seem to […]
The young Brussels company, Ahooga, produces the lightest collapsible electric bicycle on the market. This innovation, which is already sold in 10 countries, attracts clients from the USA and Asia and pushes the company to go worldwide. “This city (Brussels) […]
With its M-Byte, the new Chinese car manufacturer, Byton, wants to leave its mark in the luxury SUV segment. This electric concept has been thought out to be connected, autonomous and shared. The road-going version will be launched next year […]
The Volkswagen Group will probably be forced to recall up to 124.000 hybrid and electric cars for using cadmium, a carcinogenic metal used in the batteries of the cars, as the company announced on Tuesday. Cadmium in battery An unidentified […]
Maybe Elon Musk is a fervent fan of The Beach Boys’ hit Surfin’, maybe not, but in any case, he is unstoppable. After his 500-dollar flame thrower, sold at 20.000 copies at the end of January – all of which […]
During the first half of 2018, new car registrations in Belgium fell back to an all-time low of 36,1% for diesel and more than 58% for petrol cars. Seven years ago, it was the complete opposite. Without counting company cars, […]
The Belgian Council of Ministers has approved the ‘mobility budget’ preliminary draft but the project still has to pass thought the parliament. No words on its official enactment but the new measure will have to coexist with the principle of […]
The Antwerp fire department is going to test a mobile computer system, helping them to evacuate victims of a traffic accident. As soon as the license plate of the car is given in, the system will provide a technical map […]
Audi is going to launch its full electric SUV, the e-tron, in San Francisco (CA) on September 17th in a world première. Initially this première was to be held in Brussels in August, but Audi’s Dutch interim CEO, Bram Schot, […]
Europcar, renamed Europcar Mobility Group, was finally profitable in this year’s first semester after selling its shares in Daimler’s Car2Go. The number one car-renting company in Europe generated a profit of 20 million euro, compared to a loss of 27 […]
Carlos Tavares, CEO of car manufacturer PSA, says in an interview in the French newspaper Les Echos he is “open to all proposals” for new partnerships with other car manufacturing groups, including Fiat Chrysler (FCA). Anything is possible When asked […]
Audi Belgium’s importer, D’Ieteren, launches a free ‘e-experience app’ to give traditional car drivers the taste for electric driving in the future. By comparing every drive made in your own car with what this would mean if you did the […]
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