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Bram Schot, the CEO of car manufacturer Audi wants to save 15 billion euro the next 4 years,. This means scrapping engines, managerial posts and the night-shift in the Ingolstadt plant. Schot on the other hand thinks by 2023 25% […]
Supported by D’Ieteren’s Lab Box, Lizy shakes the car leasing sector up with its new online platform. The young Belgian start-up offers low-mileage used cars for short-term lease at 15 to 40% cheaper rates than conventional leases. In Belgium, leasing […]
In January, more than 21 million litres of bio-ethanol fuel (E85) were sold in France. Homologation of E85 conversion kits in late 2017 helped popularity of this kind of fuel. The price: costing half the price of petrol. Bio-ethanol, produced […]
Ford has invented a smart bed, using automotive technology to keep an ‘invading sleeper’ at his own side of the bed. A ‘lane keeping bed’, as it were. Normally bed partners are happy to sleep close to each other after […]
The common speed camera is past its peak. It is replaced by ANPR cameras. The first speed camera was inaugurated on December 17th, 1997 in Flanders. In 2013 there still were 1.455 of such cameras along the Flemish regional roads […]
Launched in 2017, the Allianz Bonus Drive app monitors drivers’ behaviours to reduce their car insurance premium if they adopt a good and safe driving style. The current average score stands at 82%, which allows for a 35% price reduction. […]
Limbourg climate company, Nuhma, and energy provider, RWE, want to connect the Dutch gas power plant in Maasbracht (the Netherlands) with the Belgian electricity grid. This way a blackout can be avoided when there is a lack of electricity in […]
Antwerp authorities have approved a charter for a new bicycle parking platform, called VeloPark.be. “Users will be able to find a safe shelter for their bicycle through an app”, explains Antwerp Alderman for Mobility, Koen Kennis (N-VA). Open and shared […]
According to an estimation of Transport and Logistics in the Netherlands (Transport en Logistiek Nederland, TLN), there must be 136.000 trucks driving around in the Netherlands, of which 2.000 so-called super trucks or eco-combis. Breakthrough? Since Belgian and German authorities […]
After twelve years, the curtain falls on the Airbus A380, one of Europe’s most daring industrial projects. On Thursday, at a press conference, Airbus CEO, Tom Enders, admitted that there was no longer a market for such a mega plane. […]
In the Netherlands, people are spending ever more money on used electric cars. The last twelve months the budget went up with 3.000 euro, according to a study by second-hand car site, gaspedaal.nl. Digital searches doubled In January 2018 the […]
Figures from the ‘bicycle counting week’ show that the use of the bike has grown significantly. Not only during rush hours but all day long. “The bicycle has become an evident means of transport”, says Wout Baert, coordinator of Flemish […]
French scientists and technicians created the Antbot, a little robot that finds its way like the desert ant, without GPS or a heavy load of expensive instrumentation. The global positioning system has an accuracy of a few meters at the […]
Tuesday, the first four charging points of the new Brussels charging network ‘Charge.Brussels’ have been inaugurated in Evere. In the next few years, concession holder PitPoint will roll out some hundred other stations to provide 100% green electricity to Brussels […]
Many transport experts recommend taking the train instead of flying because of the environment but rising costs are causing big problems installing a serious railway network. Do we have to look for other solutions ? Just recently we got news […]
In January, the Flemish government introduced an app to control the quality of the air in Flanders with your smartphone. Now it seems the app is anything but reliable. Even along the highway the app says everything is peachy keen. […]
Almost 180.000 people in Belgium are using shared cars, the number of users tripled in three years. In Flanders the number of users went up with 250%, in Brussels even with 350%, according to figures from the Flemish Network for […]
According to data from the buses and coaches Belgian Federation (FBAA), the coach travel sector is growing with a tourism trip market share of 7,2% in 2017. Stays of more than three nights and grouped tours represent the major part […]
The Belgian planning agency (Planbureau) sees only 12% full electric cars in 2040. The Dutch counterpart for the environment, Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving, underestimated the growth of the electric car in the Netherlands already two times. Politics are running behind. […]
Dutch Stint manufacturer, Edwin Renzen, hopes to have his Stint legally allowed on the road again before the beginning of the new school year. The once so popular ‘bolderkar’, as the vehicle is called in Dutch, is a kind of carrier […]
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has serious problems. In the third quarter of its 2018/2019 fiscal year it lost 3,8 billion euro because it executed also a depreciation of 3,1 billion euro. Even without this depreciation there is still a loss […]
On Thursday, the Brussels public transport company, STIB/MIVB, received its first new hybrid articulated bus from manufacturer Iveco. The vehicle will undergo a series of tests on the capital’s network before being put into service in May. 75 buses will […]
A growing number of owners of vintage/veteran cars is worried where and when they will still be able to drive their beauties. An (expensive) solution could be to make it electric. A small number of (exclusive) manufacturers is already offering […]
Travelling by bus is trendier than ever, thanks to the popular German FlixBus. In Belgium, the number of passengers last year grew spectacularly, from 1,3 to 2 million passengers. Green & Clean Travelling by used to have a bad reputation […]
The recent fusion between the mobility activities of BMW and Daimler has a big influence on the Chauffeur Privé platform too. As from now the Daimler co-owned platform (bought a year ago) is named Kapten and it wants to conquer […]
Like a pop star announced to visit Belgium, the news that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was to inspect the first shipment of 1.000 Model 3 for Europe in the harbour of Zeebruge, caused a lot of ‘excitement’ by his ‘fans’. […]
At the end of January the Luxembourg government has reinstalled a premium for all kinds of electric driving, from cars over scooters to electric bikes or mopeds. Also in Luxembourg the sales of electric vehicles is not very high yet. […]
Walloon Mobility Minister, Carlo Di Antonio (cdh), and Budget Minister, Jean-Luc Crucke (MR), have inaugurated the first carpool car park of Wallonia Picardy, in the Hainaut Region. Costing 450.000 euro, it counts 95 parking spots and borders the A8/E429 Tournai-Brussels […]
Making calls while driving may soon be a thing of the past in Belgium’s capital. The Brussels region is working on a digital solution that would allow the smartphone screen to be blocked in order to prevent motorists from calling […]
In the car industry the fear for a recession is rising, the good years are over. Some even talk about the worst recession coming in decades. That’s the common thread in all financial reports of the manufacturers, benefits are reduced. […]
The toll collection for private cars that Germany wants to impose is not discriminating foreign drivers, as is the conclusion of Nils Wahl, an important advisor to the European Court of Justice. According to Wahl, the so-called ‘Maut’ does not […]
The streets of many European cities are flooded with shared electric scooters but not in the Netherlands yet. The reason for the decline and ban of this – elsewhere – popular vehicle is the tragic accident last October with a […]
The new car manufacturer, Automobili Pininfarina, will launch an electric hyper car called Battista at the coming Geneva Motorshow. The car will have 1.900 horsepower from four electric motors and cost around 2 million euro. Not so long ago the […]
Will we have to choose between doing the wash first or charging the electric car? Michel Martens, director policy and research of car federation Febiac, thinks the Belgian electricity grid is not ready for having millions of cars charging when […]
Despite posting a net loss of 20 million euro for the end of 2018, Ryanair is still set on offering the cheapest plane ticket prices in Europe. It even plans to reduce them by 7% to cut the grass under […]
