Head of Business Bevelopment and Innovation in e-mobility for Engie, Michaël De Koster, confirms that the industrial group is very interested in hydrogen to store energy and fuel tomorrow’s mobility. Engie’s goals are to produce hydrogen from exceeding electricity from […]
Self-driving cars are the future of automobile, at least for Uber and its numerous competitors. According to The Information, a technology-specialized American news website, the taxi-server would be under pressure from shareholders to divest the business developing self-driving cars. It […]
Why not building a ‘global grid’ to get the green electricity on those places where it can be produced cheaply in abundance? Like a giant wind farm in Greenland, connected with a ‘super cable’ to Europe on one end and […]
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 […]
The Responsible Young Drivers (RYD) launched special ‘smartphone glasses’ on Wednesday. This new application simulates the dangers of distraction due to the use of the mobile phone while driving a car or a bicycle. The smartphone glasses were developed in […]
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, […]
The Munich-based mobility provider, Sono Motors, has announced a next test tour of its Sion ‘solar’ electric car throughout 18 cities in Germany and the Netherlands, starting the 1st of September in Germany and the 7th in the Netherlands. After […]
GPS trackers are a common tool for companies with large car parks. Recently the system demonstrated other possibilities: monitoring the misuse of a car by a third party. GPS trackers are mainly used by companies with cars/lorries/trucks which are always […]
Since last year, transport companies can call on subsidies from the Flemish government to make their new trucks safer and more ecological. Only a quarter of the 36 million euro subsidy budget was applied for last year. Part of this […]
Hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO), biodiesel based on deep-frying oil treated with hydrogen, can reduce CO2 emissions of a diesel car by 90%, Johan Mattart, director of the Belgian federation of fuel traders Brafco stated in an opinion article in De […]
After several other Japanese manufacturers Mazda, Suzuki and Yamaha have confessed to be falsifying testing procedures on emissions and consumption. Apparently a great number of Japanese car manufacturers have been manipulating test procedures. After the discovery of test procedure fraud […]
The Canadian start-up, Transpod, will take up residence in the small municipality of Droux in southwest France and build the longest test track for the development of the hyperloop technology. One day after Virgin Hyperloop One announced it would set […]
In the roof boxes of national railway company NMBS/SNCB’s recent Desiro trains explosions take place, causing power failure and making the trains stop. “It’s by no means the only technical problem”, says Kees Smilde, spokesman of travellers association, TreinTramBus. He […]
According to the American Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), driver assistance systems aren’t always right. It advises drivers to keep their hands permanently on the steering wheel and stay alert. Electronic guardian angels, like lane keeping assist, automatic braking, […]
American start-up Virgin Hyperloop One, one of the larger companies worldwide working on the high-speed hyperloop concept envisioned by Elon Musk originally, is going to build a research centre in Spain, together with the Spanish railway network manager, Adif. The […]
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 […]
Marc Grynberg, CEO of the Belgian technology group Umicore, world player in battery materials and recycling, launches the idea to offer 15 euro for trading in your written-off smartphone for recycling. He estimates precious metals like cobalt and lithium in […]
The Dutch operator, PitPoint, is granted a concession for the installation and operation of a network of charging stations for electric vehicles (EV) in Brussels. Hundred terminals will be installed in the coming months. The concession runs until the end […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Uber has decided to abandon its autonomous truck program to focus entirely on its driverless car projects, the American group announced on Monday. “We have decided to stop developing our autonomous truck program and move exclusively on autonomous cars”, said […]
In addition to electrically powered cars, there are various brands that sell electrically powered motorcycles. But they don’t seem to attract a lot of bikers today. In the Netherlands, for the time being, this is a very small niche market […]
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, […]
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 […]
On Tuesday, the Ford Motor Company announced it would create a specialized company dedicated to autonomous car development. It will regroup all of the group’s operation in the sector. 4 billion dollar Based in the centre of Detroit, the new […]
Uber is going to start again with tests of its autonomous car on public roads, four months after a deadly accident with one of its self-driving cars in Tempe (Arizona). Strangely enough, this time there will be a driver at […]
The French automotive supplier, OEM Plastic Omnium, has invested 50 million euro to create a new R&D centre dedicated to new energies. No word yet about the precise location, but it could be located near the company’s offices in the […]
The German authorities intend to order the mandatory recall of Porsche Panamera, these luxury cars being in turn suspected to be equipped with software hiding their actual levels of polluting emissions, said the weekly magazine of ‘Der Spiegel’ on Saturday. […]
Young people can now buy a train ticket on Facebook, in a chat window with Céline, “our chatbot, an automated conversation partner who answers questions”, says Belgian railway company, NMBS/SNCB’s spokesman, Dimitri Temmerman. For the time being this is only […]
Los Angeles (CA) based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) is the first ‘hyperloop company’ to sign an important commercial deal with China, the company revealed on Thursday. It will build in a 50/50 private-public partnership a track of 10 km at […]
Tiny cubic yellow robots, the size of a small washing machine, are roaming at walking pace, totally independently on the footpaths of Beijing’s residential Kafka district, on their way to deliver groceries to clients living nearby. Almost ready to take […]
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