When cities and municipalities would switch to smart LED lights instead of keeping the conventional lighting systems they could save 680 million euro, according to calculations of Belgian technology federation Agoria. Political party N-VA already suggested to switch to LED […]
Cowboy, the intelligent and permanent to the internet connected electric bike developed by a Brussels’ start-up is to hit the street. The sleek bike already won the Start-up Award at the 2017 Eurobike in Friedrichshafen (Germany) when presented the first […]
Dutch telecom provider KPN is testing an autonomous flying drone taxi in Amsterdam, the Ehang 216 AAV (Autonomous Aerial Vehicle) built by Chinese electronics giant Huawei. Fast mobile internet connection The two-seat autonomous taxi drone is using a fast mobile […]
Tesla is going to suspend production of its Model 3 for a week to adjust the process. This is a normal procedure, the company says, while speeding up output. On Monday Tesla issued the same message it did in February, […]
Global satellite operator Inmarsat is to offer its EAN high-speed internet system aboard airplanes on short and middle distance regional flights from the International Airlines Group (IAG). This was announced by Inmarsat on Monday. IAG is the mother house of […]
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla assured in a tweet that “Tesla will be profitable in the third and fourth quarter of this year”. In an interview with CBS he also said that everybody who pre-ordered a Model 3 […]
Swedish truck builder Volvo Trucks has launched its first full electric 16 tons trucks, serving as a garbage truck for waste processing company Renova and for haulage firm TGM. With a range up to 300 km and working silently it […]
American electric car maker Tesla is withdrawing officially from the investigation lead by the NTSB (National Transport Safetey Board) into the deadly crash, in March 2018 in Mountain View (CA), of a Tesla X Model on Autopilot. Tesla won’t swallow […]
On Wednesday Sweden has opened the ‘eRoadArlanda’, a stretch of two kilometre public road equipped with an electric rail in the middle of the driving lane to allow electric vehicles to charge while driving with a sort of upside down […]
Flemish research centre IMEC from Louvain has developed a prototype of a solid state battery, where the conductor starts as liquid but becomes a solid material. The researchers claim a break-through, a “first step towards the super battery” with twice […]
With the technical face-lift of the popular Outlander PHEV (plug-in hybrid vehicle) Mitsubishi has announced to aim for an entire energy network, including home, office, loading station and the grid. The substantial technical update of the Outlander PHEV announced at […]
On Monday Porsche’s three times Le Mans winning 919 Hybrid Evo has broken the fastest track record set ever on the F1 circuit in Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium). Swiss driver Neel Jani did the 7,004 km technically demanding track in 1.41.770 minutes, […]
Flanders is investing 819.000 euro – some 60% of the total price – in three experimental solar thermal heating installations to be built in Ostend, the Antwerp harbour and the Thor Science Park in Genk. In total they will produce […]
Electric car maker Tesla is calling back 123.000 Model S cars built before April 2016. Reason is excessive corrosion that was found on the bolts of the power steering on cars operating in cold climates. Like Norway for instance, where […]
With electric cars still too expensive and diesel falling in a somewhat ‘hysterical’ disgrace, the car on natural compressed gas (CNG) has its window of opportunity. Today it might be the cheapest alternative of all, as newspaper De Standaard calculated. […]
Waymo, a daughter company of Google-mother Alphabet, will develop a fully autonomous car together with Jaguar. In 2020 the 20.000 electrically driven i-Paces have to be on the road as driver-less taxis. In New York, Waymo CEO John Krafcik presented […]
Volvo Cars Gent is going to invest an estimated 100 million extra to start building the first 70.000 Chinese Lynk & Co 01 crossovers for Europe by the end of 2019. Whether this will mean more personnel too for the […]
Do we have to remove diesel cars as soon as possible from our roads? No, say experts, the attitude towards diesel is becoming hysteric. The problems are the older diesels and fraud with the particulate filters. The trigger to interview […]
Toyota Motor Company announced on Thursday in Japan it is suspending testing of autonomous vehicles on public roads in the US after the fatal accident with a Uber self-driving car in Tempe, Arizona (US). The Toyota Research Institute (TRI) based […]
There is an acute shortage of car mechanics. According to sector organization Traxio “there are more than 2.000 vacancies, whereas only 1.350 students ‘car engineering’ finished their studies last school year.” Technology Repairing cars, however, is a real technology job […]
German car maker BMW is going to double its test fleet of autonomous cars to 80 vehicles. The first accident with a self-driving car killing a pedestrian in the US on Sunday won’t slow down the development. The police razzias […]
According to The San Francisco Chronicle quoting the Tempe (AR) police chief, Sylvia Moir, the accident with the Uber self-driving car killing a 49-year-old woman “would have been difficult to avoid in any kind of mode, autonomous or human-driven”. Moir […]
A solar storm jamming GPS communication with satellites could create the future world’s worst monster traffic jams if autonomous cars are populating the streets. According to the Bloomberg press agency astronomers warn for too much dependence of satellite data. On […]
The Belgian insurance brokers are not in favour of installing a black box in the car, recording the 8 last seconds before a crash and using its data for accident analysis. A few days ago Dutch insurance brokers pleaded for […]
Ride-hailing giant Uber is suspending its autonomous car program after a self-driving car hit a woman walking her bicycle across the street in Tempe, Arizona (US) on Sunday. The 49-year-old woman, Elaine Herzberg, died of her injuries in the hospital. […]
Catching drivers being on drugs soon will be easier. A little wipe with a small piece of cloth on the steering wheel will do to find samples of possible used drugs. Until now drug detecting in traffic is a rigmarole. […]
French train and tram builder Alstom is betting on its newest Citadis X05, a tram that doesn’t need a network trolley wire in the city centre, but is fed with electricity by the rails to reel in the 420 million […]
German car maker Audi announced on Thursday it will bring 20 ‘electric’ models (EV and hybrid) to market by 2025, starting with its first ‘Tesla hunter’, the full electric Audi e-tron SUV to be launched at a company summit in […]
The German multinational Bosch wants to reinvent itself and plays a major role in a digital and connected future. At an event in Berlin, ‘Connected World’, it announced the creation of a new division in the company: Connected Mobility Solutions. […]
Volkswagen did well in 2017 but to stabilize growth it has to go for innovation and at the same time embrace tradition, meaning going full power for electrification and consolidate on the diesel side. A few days ago VW announced […]
Peter Schwarzenbauer, member of the board at BMW and responsible for Mini, among other things, sees great opportunities for the E-Mini: “Mini is a car for the city, with the evolution we see now, I’m very optimistic about the electric […]
The Walloon government and Sofico, its financial agency, announced on Monday that 166 million euro will be invested in smart phone apps, connected vehicles and dynamic weight control for semi-trucks, among others, as part of a series of measures for […]
In a study the Australian Automobile Association (AAA) states that the recalled and updated Volkswagen cars are still not passing emission tests in real driving conditions. VW denies and says that the German authority KBA (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt) has given green light […]
According to a recent EY study revealed in Frankfurt the German car industry is by far the heaviest investor in electrically driven vehicles. The last two years the 16 largest car manufacturers have invested approximately 5,3 billion euro in electrification. […]
The French branch of German originated FlixBus together with its electric bus partner B.E. Green are launching a daily full electric long distance bus service between Paris and Amiens. “Using a full electric bus on a regular daily line over […]
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