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American e-truck manufacturer, Nikola, the alter ego of Tesla in the field of electric semi-trucks, has presented an all electric jet-ski-like watercraft, called WAV, and an electric off-roader, NZT, as part of its Powersports division. Both were presented at a […]
By 2020, Flanders will have at least three more public hydrogen filling stations. The roll-out of hydrogen filling stations must go hand in hand with the roll-out of the vehicles. Hydrogen vehicles can also benefit from tax exemption and a […]
The Belgian national railway company, NMBS/SNCB, has indeterminately shelved its plans to run trains without conductors or ticket inspectors. It had planned to operate ‘one man trains’ in which the driver would also manage the passengers using cameras. However, the […]
Hyundai’s premium brand, Genesis, has just revealed the Mint Concept. It introduces the new typology of a premium city car, according to the manufacturer. The car has its première at the New York International Auto Show 2019 opening tomorrow, the […]
According to Damien Ernst, energy specialist at the University of Liège, 90% of newly sold cars should be electric by 2030. This is possible because the price of batteries will drop in the years to come. However, this poses problems […]
On Wednesday the European Parliament has voted (304 against 207) for the older ‘proven’ technology of Wi-Fi to let the cars of the future talk to each other, instead of the new 5G telecom network. It’s up to the Council […]
The speed camera game in Belgium is going up a notch with the delivery of the first handheld speed radar guns to police departments later this year. While homologation is still pending, commissioners already know that they will equip motorbike […]
An overhead highway on stilts for vehicles to use autonomously without having to face congestion, that’s the idea Dutch entrepreneur Rob van der Poel proposes. Because his project would be privately funded and financed by toll, the road wouldn’t need […]
Swiss battery technology company, Innolith, claims a major breakthrough in lithium-ion batteries that could give an electric car a range of 1.000 km or more. The ingenious solution is said to be in the non-flammable organic electrolyte, making it possible […]
Mercedes-Benz Cars is now deploying a whole dealer network specialized in electrified cars launched under the EQ (Electric Intelligence) label. In all, 65 selling points will comply with the Mercedes-Benz’ expectations. These include the selling, maintaining and repairing of electrical […]
Norwegian OSM Aviation, specialized in training air crews, has placed an order for 60 electric eFlyer 2 planes with Denver, Colorado (US) based Bye Aerospace. They will be used in its flight training centres to qualify pilots for the ‘future […]
Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen Group, thinks his company has turned the page and is ready for future challenges. But surely now, you can’t take things for granted and much will depend on the governmental politics in the matter. […]
Twelve years ago, the era of the self-driving car seemed to have dawned. Today, manufacturers have become more cautious with such statements. Clearly, there are no timelines anymore. Self-driving car only in certain areas “We overestimated the arrival of self-propelled […]
After the court battle turmoil with taxi companies, the American ride-hailing company launches ‘Uber Movement’. The new project makes traffic data collected by drivers available to the public and the government. Brussels is the 27th city in the world and […]
To improve the readability of traffic signs in the Belgian capital, the Brussels government has just launched the online application, eSign, which lists all traffic signs in the capital. Brussels Mobility and several Brussels municipalities, as well as the secretariat […]
Measuring traffic until now was limited in time, expensive and made no difference between sorts of vehicles. This week inhabitants of Kessel-Lo (south of Louvain, centre of Belgium) started their own measurements. They’re using a small do-it-yourself pack called Telraam […]
French public transport companies, RATP (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) and IDFM (Ile-de-France Mobilités), have awarded three French manufacturers (HeuliezBus, Bolloré and Alstom) a contract with a potential of 800 electric buses. The Île-de-France region just ordered 641 extra CNG […]
Dutch fast charger network company, Fastned, is going to the Amsterdam Euronext stock exchange “in the first half of this year” to finance a costly European expansion, aiming at 1.000 stations. It’s looking in the first place to the Netherlands, […]
French researchers, Victor Mougel and Marc Fontecave, have developed a system that transforms CO2 into fuel. Provided in energy by two solar panels, this artificial photosynthesis produces ethylene in the form of a gas. This hydrocarbon is close to petroleum […]
On a very busy motorway patch near Antwerp the ‘Smart Highway’ project has been launched. It’s a testing site for communication technologies between cars (C2C) and between cars and others (C2X). Smart Highway is part of a global European project […]
Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi is going to commercialize its vehicle-to-grid (V2G) solution and make the hybrid Outlander PHEV a backup battery for solar panels and to light up your home at dusk when needed. In Japan Mitsubishi is rolling out the […]
A car powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) is a better option both environmentally and economically than a diesel car or even better than an electric vehicle. This is clear from a new report by the Belgian Commission for Electricity […]
Toyota, undisputed pioneer in hybrid (electric-petrol) technology since more than 20 years, is opening up for free some 24.000 patents it gathered over time. Toyota says it wants to contribute to the promotion of electrified vehicles and help governments, car […]
Tesla will allow investors to get a closer look at its autonomous cars, as part of an attractive operation designed to improve confidence in these new technologies, the American manufacturer announced on Wednesday. Tesla boss, Elon Musk, will take part […]
Modern cars collect much more personal data than their owners realize. Moreover, they often don’t know why these data are collected and who has access to the information. These results are shown in a University of Amsterdam (UvA) query among […]
German truck builder Daimler Trucks, division of the Daimler group, has acquired a major stake in US autonomous driving tech company Torc Robotics. The latter, based in Blacksburg, Virginia, showed its Asimov self-driving software technology of SAE Level 4 in […]
Today, car manufacturer Hyundai has issued a press release drawing our attention to the new regulations, which will impose stricter fines on middle-lane drivers on the motorway. Hyundai takes advantage of April 1st and launches an April Fool’s joke by […]
The American hail-riding app, Lyft, made a very successful début on Wall Street. Its stock price quickly jumped to 87 dollar after opening at 72 dollar, already above expectations. With this price, Lyft was worth 29 billion dollar, doubling the […]
Geert Bruyneel, top manager at Volvo cars, knows the Chinese way of thinking. “They may have unreachable goals, but even when they realize 80%, they achieve more than we do, with our carefully chosen, modest goals. Belgian Geert Bruyneel (59) […]
German equipment manufacturer, ZF Friedrichshafen, will purchase truck brake specialist, WABCO, for more than 7 billion euro. The firm will, therefore, become the world’s third-biggest OEM behind fellow German companies Bosch and Continental. Tuesday, global supplier of technologies and services […]
Dutch retailer Albert Heijn (AH) is going to test a Swiss-German autonomous delivery robot to deliver groceries. As legislation won’t allow such robots yet on Dutch roads, the test will be done at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. Albert […]
VDL Automated Vehicles, a division of Dutch bus and car (Nedcar) builder VDL got an order from Singapore harbour operator PSA for 80 full autonomous container trucks. By 2023 they should all drive 24/7 on the harbour terrain moving containers. […]
Last year, a fifth more traffic fines were sent in Belgium than the year before. This is largely due to a new computer system that automatically processes all traffic fines. In total, the sum of all fines sent last year, […]
The Belgian federation of car manufacturers and importers, Febiac, is disappointed that an agreement between the different Belgian authorities on rolling out 5G has failed again. According to Febiac, this endangers the future mobility of all Belgians. Febiac doesn’t understand […]
From 2022 onward the European Union will render different smart safety systems obligatory in new cars. Amongst them are active lane keeping and sleep detection. “Every year 25.000 people die in traffic. The main cause are human errors”, declares Elzbieta […]
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