The Belgian road safety institute, Vias, has realized an inquiry indicating that users of radar-detectors get more fines for speeding than nonusers. Coyote, one of the producers of such devices, contests the results. According to the inquiry, 22% of the […]
With strong residual values, low running costs and growing charging facilities, the electric car is starting to make more sense to fleet managers. According to leasing companies, the only real hindrance for employees and employers is a psychological one. With […]
With already 20.000 pre-orders and a 2.000 euro deposit, of which 700 in Belgium alone for its new e-tron SUV, Audi is betting on its completely renovated carbon-neutral Belgian plant to turn out around 300 units a day. “We’ve developed […]
In January, the 97th edition of the Brussels Motor Show will take place (18 – 27 January) in Brussels Expo. Unlike other Motor Shows in Europe, Brussels keeps on seducing all brands as this is a ‘sales show’ in the […]
Polly, an Israeli app that calls itself ‘the Waze of parking’, is now available in Brussels and will soon be coming to Antwerp, Malines and Ghent. Polly leads the driver to a likely free parking spot on the street or […]
On Wednesday, a command centre for automatic drone flights was opened in Antwerp. This took place in The Beacon, a product development hub where a group of aviation, service and health care organizations under the name Helicus Aero Initiative (HAI) […]
American Waymo is the first company in the world to have launched a paid taxi service with autonomous cars. On Wednesday, the first passengers stepped into a robot taxi in Phoenix (Arizona, US). Although the taxis are self-driving, there is […]
Tesla announced on Wednesday it will start delivering its Model 3 in Europe in February 2019. Delivery will be done on first come, first served base: those who paid a 1.000 euro deposit in March 2016, will get it first […]
Volkswagen plans to sell its last cars with combustion engines – petrol or diesel – by 2040, VW’s strategic director, Michael Jost, has told the newspaper Handelsblatt. “The last car to be launched on a traditional platform will be in […]
Next year SeaMade, a cooperation with main shareholder Otary, Engie Electrabel and Eneco Wind Belgium, will start with the construction of two new wind farms – Mermaid and Seastar – in the North Sea. Together, they will form the largest […]
The new double-decker trains of the NMBS/SNCB are not available yet. In 2015, the Belgian public railway company placed an order of 1,3 billion euro with the Bombardier-Alstom consortium for 445 new wagons and locomotives that normally had to be […]
According to a survey by the VRT news website, companies are far from keen on offering their employees a speed pedelec for commuting. They consider the risk of a serious accident too high. ‘Normal’ e-bike is booming That is why […]
Belgian Federal Finance Minister, Johan Van Overtveldt (N-VA) is going to take reprisals against the use of the so-called ‘red’ diesel as fuel for cars. The increased diesel prices are one of the frustrations of the ‘yellow jacket’ demonstrations in […]
Every year mobility club VAB organizes a family car of the year election and in the category electric and hybrid vehicles the Nissan Leaf was the winner in 2018, followed by the Hyundai Kona EV and the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. […]
The Walloon Minister for Local Authorities, Valérie De Bue (MR), will allocate 1,5 million euro to help municipalities to reduce their fleet of vehicle’s CO2 emissions. Every new vehicle weighing less than 3,5 tons will have to be electric, hybrid […]
The American car market will shrink in the next years and the car manufacturers over there are taking measures to cope with it. In Europe car producers like PSA and Fiat are still investing. In the beginning of the week […]
A recent RAC study relayed by Touring shows that more than half of drivers think that LED headlights can be a risk for road safety because they can momentarily blind other road users with their powerful light beams. Mobility organization […]
In its latest memorandum, the Belgian Petrol Federation and its Secretary General, Jean-Pierre Van Dijk, plead for technology neutrality to stop diesel bashing. According to him, new diesel cars’ NOx emissions will be comparable to the ones from electric cars […]
Several sources in Europe have announced that US President Trump will install much higher income taxes after the G20 summit. Share prices of practically every company in the automotive sector were immediately under pressure. The German business magazine, Wirtschaftswoche, announced […]
Increasing fuel shortages are caused by the low water level of the river Rhine in the Netherlands. Several days now, an increasing number of gas stations, mostly those without personnel, are not supplied anymore. According to Shell spokesman Tim Kezer, […]
Green LPG (Liquid Petrol Gas) may become an instrument to reduce the rising CO2 emissions of the Dutch vehicle fleet now that motorists are less willing to buy diesel cars after the dieselgate scandal. CO2 emissions are rising The Dutch […]
The number of lease bicycles is growing exponentially. Especially the electric bicycle is more and more popular as a means of transport and a kind of reward. Alternative for car and train Companies and commuters are keen on the alternative […]
The biggest American car manufacturer has announced it wants to save 6 billion dollar to be more competitive. In order to do that it has to close 7 factories and fire approximately 15% of its workforce. Yesterday already there were […]
Bank and insurance company, KBC, is starting with the sales of train tickets via its own mobile app. With the app, travellers can also consult the timetable of trains. Next year KBC wants to add extra mobility options, like offering […]
The Flemish government will centralize all its traffic data in one platform. This platform, called ‘Mobility-data’, should benefit external apps, such as Waze, Coyote or TomTom, with more and better information, and that in turn should lead to better traffic flow […]
According to public TV channels Radio-Canada/CBC American, car manufacturer General Motors will announce today its plan to close down the Oshawa plant near Toronto. GM is thought to be brooding on a worldwide restructuring of its manufacturing capacities. Rumour? The […]
According to the German court in Augsburg, Volkswagen has to pay back the original purchase price of a VW Golf from 2012. The court judged that Volkswagen had acted immorally by using illegal emissions-cheating software. By doing so, the car […]
After twenty years, French group PSA and Japanese car manufacturer Toyota will stop their collaboration on the development and assembly of small city cars in 2021. Toyota could buy back PSA’s shares and reassign the Czech plant in Kolin to […]
The Dutch start-up swap bike (Swapfiets) has officially entered Brussels on Thursday. It is the fourth Belgian city after Louvain, Ghent and Antwerp where the recognizable blue bikes will be visible in the streets. Alderman of Mobility, Els Ampe, welcomed […]
Starting from next year, the Hambach plant assembling Daimler’s Smart cars will undergo a renovation that will bring it a new assembly line for the next compact and electric Mercedes-Benz SUV. Bit by bit it will also phase out any […]
Hillebrand Breuker, a Dutch master of agricultural science from the north of the Netherlands, who liked to feel, sniff and taste when in the open, always used to chew on a piece of grass and he knew it tasted salty. […]
Swedish headquarters of Volvo have declared that the new to launch products of Chinese sister brand, Lynk & Co, will not be produced in the Volvo Ghent factory as was earlier announced. It is not entirely clear if this decision […]
French Brittany association, Eco Solar Breizh, is studying the development of an electric city car equipped with a fuel cell and solar panels. Having developed and run their competition solar car Heol, the association estimates that with 4 square meters […]
The mobility scooter is not safe enough, as is the conclusion of a new large-scale investigation. Stability of the vehicle and the way it brakes both need improvement. In the Netherlands, an estimated 250.000 mobility scooters are driving around, although […]
The electronics chain, Coolblue, one of the Benelux largest e-commerce players, has started in Antwerp with the delivery of parcels at home by bicycle on Monday. The initiative is an example of the trend that delivery of parcels in cities […]
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