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Italian motor racer Max Biaggi has set a new speed record at the wheel of an electric motorbike at the end of November. Venturi’s Voxan Wattman reached a top speed of no less than 456 km/hour on the grounds of […]
BMW gave its performance branch M Motorsport a birthday present at Art Basel’s 2021 Miami Beach show on Tuesday. By the end of 2022, the year in which the sports arm turns 50, its catalog will feature its own exclusive […]
Stellantis, the mother company of the former FCA and PSA groups, is deepening its battery relationship with Mercedes. Both car manufacturers are taking an equity stake in Factorial Energy, an American start-up focused on the R&D of solid-state batteries. Previously […]
An electric (company) car is still on average 50% more expensive than its sibling with an internal combustion engine (ICE), says HR-service bureau Acerta, but in Total Cost of Ownership (TOC), that’s not the case. Employers are raising their company […]
Chinese tech giant Baidu has started to put into service its Apollo Go robot taxis on the streets of Beijing, just as the Capital City authorized the commercial use of autonomous vehicles. Sixty-seven white SUVs with cameras and radars on […]
Using geofencing technology and GPS, BMW lets its plug-in hybrids switch to zero-emission pure electric drive automatically when possible in so-called ‘eDrive Zones’. These zones are extended to 138 European cities today, and BMW will add another 30 next year. […]
Chinese electric car manufacturer, Nio, and European petroleum company, Shell, have entered into a strategic partnership to collaborate on charging and battery swapping facilities in China and Europe. The agreement is for Nio and Shell to construct and operate battery […]
Chinese car brand Xpeng has unveiled its fourth model. The G9 is an all-electric high-end luxury SUV, sitting on top of its portfolio that can charge at 480 kW. The car will, of course, be available for the domestic market, […]
In Norway, the world’s first fully electric and autonomous sailing container ship Yara Birkeland has successfully completed its maiden trip last week under human surveillance, but without help. The short 7,5 nautical mile trip (13,7 km) offered several challenges like […]
Volvo Car Gent has to stop its car production for another two days due to a parts shortage. This time, it concerns the battery modules needed in electric and hybrid vehicles. One of Flanders’ largest industrial employers, Volvo Car Gent, […]
On Friday, American electric car newcomer Rivian and giant Ford Motor Company have announced that they will no longer co-develop an electric vehicle or share a platform. However, Ford remains a major stakeholder in Rivian (12%). Back in April 2019, […]
At the Los Angeles Motor show in its hometown, American electric carmaker Fisker presented its now production-ready version of the Ocean SUV last week, in three flavors and starting at $37 499 before incentives. For that price, you’ll get the […]
Incorporated into the Green Energy Park project in the Zellik Research Park near the Brussels Ring, Smart Village Lab is a living university lab to jointly test the energy use of the future with the industry. Flemish Minister for Innovation […]
US startup Ample is targetting Europe to introduce its battery-swapping technology through an extended partnership with Uber. The ride-hailing company wants to have half of the kilometers driven in seven capital cities in Europe to be electric by 2025. That […]
Earlier this week, numerous media reported on a rumor regarding the purchase of British supercar maker and Formula 1 team McLaren by German carmaker Audi. McLaren denied the report, but leaves the door open for technology collaboration. Audi, for its […]
At the Automobility motor show in Los Angeles sister companies Kia and Hyundai each unveiled their vision of a future large all-electric SUV. The Kia EV9 (see picture below) and the Hyundai Seven are separate concepts, but they build very […]
Belgian bus and tour car maker Van Hool has presented the TDX25E Astromega, its first double-deck coach, targeted to the US market. It offers a range of 500 km for 69 passengers, 18 on the lower deck, 51 on the […]
While visiting the industrial start-up Genvia on Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that the government’s investment in hydrogen will benefit from an additional €1,9 billion, as part of the investment plan ‘France 2030‘. The President wants to fight for […]
[email protected], the Antwerp project to set up an infrastructure to capture CO2 and push it in liquid form through pipelines into storage, is one of the seven large-scale selected projects to be subsidized by the European Innovation Fund (EIF). The […]
Pure electric cars now account for every tenth new model entering West European roads. According to the latest European Electric Car Report data, the monthly share of new BEV passenger car registrations on a 12-month annualized basis has surpassed the […]
At the Salon des Maires et des Collectivités Locales, the ‘Mayor’s salon’ in Paris, Hyvia, the joint venture between Renault and Plug Power is showing these days its new 15-passenger city bus on hydrogen. The mini-bus based on the Renault […]
The latest battery cell from Northvolt answers to one of the most important criticisms against battery production: the unethical and ecologically questionable mining process. The Swedish battery manufacturer has successfully produced its first lithium-ion battery cell made entirely from precious […]
Toyota Vice-President Shigeru Hayakawa takes up the cudgels for hybrid cars. According to Toyota, hybrid cars – HEV and PHEV – will still play a crucial role in reducing emissions in worldwide transport. Hayakawa is, therefore, pointing at South-East Asia […]
On Friday, the Flemish government gave the go-ahead for Mobilidata, a project that uses data to make traffic smoother, more sustainable, and safer. A consortium led by Be-Mobile, a Belgian company specializing in distributing traffic information, is steering the project. […]
The charging cable risking to overheat when too much electricity is pushed through it is the limiting factor why charging an electric car takes so long today. Ford says its researchers are working with the US Purdue University on new […]
Daimler Truck and French oil giant TotalEnergies have signed an agreement to jointly kick start the rollout of hydrogen infrastructure and heavy-duty trucks in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, and France. Daimler wants its hydrogen trucks deployed fully on the […]
EDUCAM, a sectorial organization for the training of the workforce in the automotive branch, had yesterday opened its first training facility for future garages repairing hydrogen cars. The center, located in Lokeren, wants to prepare professionals for this new challenge […]
Last week, Flanders decided to go entirely for EVs as of 2029. But one of the binding conditions for the total switch was the presence of good charging infrastructure. A lot of new technical workforce will be needed to install […]
According to the Bloomberg news agency, electronics giant Apple has hired another high-ranking Tesla engineer for its Titan project; former AutoPilot software director Christopher ‘CJ’ Moore. As always, Apple declines to comment on its plans for a self-driving car. Moore […]
Dutch oil giant Shell, Swedish energy provider Vattenfall, and Scandinavia’s leading airline SAS announced to jointly study the possibilities to produce 50 000 tons of electrofuel for aviation, made from green hydrogen and CO2, captured from a district heating facility. […]
British-American start-up in hydrogen-powered aviation, ZeroAvia, has signed an agreement with Dutch aviation partners to realize a zero-emission one-hour flight route with a 19-seat airplane on hydrogen between London and The Hague Airport (RTHA) in Rotterdam. ZeroAvia and Royal Schiphol […]
One wheel that does it all. Hyundai’s component division Mobis has unveiled the ‘e-Corner Module’, a wheel that doesn’t only steer but has incorporated suspension, braking, and driving systems. And above all, it can turn 90 degrees making it possible […]
British global chemical company, Ineos, a specialist in producing ‘low-carbon’ hydrogen, is working on a hydrogen demonstration version of its Landrover Defender-clone, the Grenadier, for road testing by the end of 2022. The latter will most likely get a Hyundai […]
German carmaker Mercedes-Benz opened on Tuesday ordering for the plug-in version of its new C-Class, the C300e sedan, and estate. The latter offers a fully electric autonomy of more than 110 km (WLTP). Prices, VAT of 19% included in Germany, […]
Renault will produce some 500 000 fewer vehicles than planned in 2021 due to a lack of semi-conductors. In the third quarter, 170 000 cars of Renault, Dacia, Lada, and Alpine could not be produced. Renault was notably affected in […]
