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 […]
The Belgian transport company, Ninatrans, based in Haasrode, has ordered hydrogen trucks from Nikola. This makes Ninatrans a forerunner in the Belgian transport sector and even on a European level. Hydrogen trucks Hydrogen trucks are not very well known yet, […]
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 […]
On Thursday Volkswagen announced it is to cut production costs further to 3 billion euro to finance the mega-investments in electric vehicles. The German car maker, still the world’s largest, wants to become the number one in electric. Margins have […]
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) […]
Wearing airbag vests could prevent 10% of road deaths and many more serious injuries among motorcyclists. The French road safety organization, Sécurité Routière, is launching a campaign in this Advent to raise awareness of these airbags for motorcycles. Airbag jacket […]
Belgian Federation of Fuel Traders (Brafco) asks the Belgian federal government to be consistent in its policy to lower taxes on ‘greener’ fuels like ‘blue diesel’, as it already did for the clean natural gas variants, CNG and LNG. “The […]
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 […]
The Belgian production site of truck builder DAF Trucks, located in Westerlo (Belgium), has secured one of the biggest orders in recent years. The Lithuanian transport company, Girteka Logistics, buys 1.500 trucks that will be delivered as from from January […]
‘Charging station clingers’, they are the new plague of electric drivers: cars that occupy a charging station for hours while their batteries are already charged. This frustrates other drivers with a nearly empty battery who can’t find a charging station […]
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 […]
Wuxi, a Chinese city of 6,5 million inhabitants 100 km west of Shanghai is Audi’s preferred playground for testing its autonomous cars up to level 4 in real life circumstances. In Wuxi Audi’s engineers can test developments in actual traffic, […]
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 […]
If it wants to ‘feed’ 4 million electric cars by 2028 as the government envisions, France will need 7% extra capacity in producing electricity for an estimate of 7 million charging points. Crucial is to go for smart charging solutions […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Wednesday French train manufacturer, Alstom, has presented a ‘French version’ of its Coradia hydrogen train it wants to propose to the SNCF to replace the current fleet of 450 to 500 regional diesel trains in the next ten years. […]
Be-Mobile, a branch of Belgian telecom operator Proximus that specializes in building technology platforms for connected cars, traffic info and management and smart mobility, will acquire its French sector partner Mediamobile. The Ghent company announced this on Sunday. In this […]
Joost Kaesemans, communication director at Febiac, the Belgian association of motoring manufacturers and importers, gives his views on car propulsion of the future. “The Brussels region is doing a survey lately on how a possible ban on cars with an […]
On Thursday, Morocco kicked off the first high-speed train connection on the African continent, connecting Tangier, Rabat and Casablanca in 2 hours and ten minutes with a French-built TGV train. Until now this 350 km long voyage took 4h45. First […]
Young Belgian start-up Smart Driving assesses drivers for one month via data monitoring to teach them a better driving style. After the course, drivers can see their progression on a specially developed app. A calmer and more proactive driver is […]
Illya Cadivel, engineer from the Reunion Island living in Luxembourg, is developing a new lightweight electric bus that uses a compressed air generator to increase range. The first prototype should be ready by the end of the year and its […]
With 104 recorded cable thefts last year and 225 between June and October this year, manager of the Belgian rail network, Infrabel, wants to put an end to this scourge. It plans on using drones equipped with infrared cameras to […]
Autumn is bad news for smooth traffic because when the days are getting shorter, traffic jams grow longer. In the Flemish Traffic Centre, every morning, one sees with Argus’ eyes the traffic jam barometer rising. It is from their ultramodern […]
Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors, both part of the Hyundai Motor group, have announced plans to introduce solar charging technology on selected future vehicles of the group. Solar panels will therefore be incorporated in the roof or the hood (or […]
Petrol cars with a high mileage often emit extreme amounts of harmful nitrogen dioxides, a problem that until recently was associated with diesel engines. According to TNO, the Dutch organization for applied scientific research, one out of six petrol cars […]
Vincent Everts, Dutch trendwatcher and ‘Tesla evangelist’ got fined twice while he was ‘working on his smartphone’ with his hands off the steering wheel of his Tesla, driving on Autopilot. He is contesting the fines on Thursday before the Utrecht […]
The number of patents filed in Europe for self-driving vehicle (SDV) technology has grown twenty times faster than other technology sectors, a rise with 330% between 2011 and 2017. Both Europe, with Germany in particular, and the US lead the […]
Finally the European entrepreneurs are reacting to the avalanche of battery manufacturers coming from China, South-Korea and the US. Is their reaction too little too late? Between now and 2025, some 400 new electric models (EV) are announced and the […]
On Wednesday, the Dutch energy research institute ‘ECN part of TNO’ opens in Petten, North-Holland, its lab to create biofuel out of seaweed, a ‘world premiere on this scale’, the researchers claim. Burning biofuels created from seaweed is ‘CO2 neutral’, […]
According to persistent rumours, car manufacturer Volkswagen will collaborate with America’s number two, Ford, on the further development of the electric and autonomous car. According to Reuters press agency, VW Group CEO, Herbert Diess, will announce the collaboration next week […]
3.000 cameras will be installed in the SNCB/NMBS’ 445 new trains to be delivered next year. They will transfer a real-time image feed to the rail transport control unit, which can deploy Securail forces or call the police in case […]
The electric wagon, Stint, or ‘bolderkar’ as it’s called in Dutch, “has rightly been removed from the public road”. That is the verdict of the Utrecht judge in the lawsuit filed by Michelle van Zundert from day-care centre, Het Kinderstraatje, […]
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