Carriers submitted 73 route applications for the second pilot project with super trucks, also called ecocombis, on the Flemish motorways. The Cabinet of Flemish Minister of Mobility, Ben Weyts (N-VA), and the Department of Mobility and Public Works confirmed that […]
American electric car company, Tesla, has started judicial procedures against the Canadian state of Ontario because the new government decided to stop incentives for the purchase of Electric Vehicles (EV). Clients can still benefit from a discount until mid-September but […]
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 […]
The European Commission sees a special role for the ports of Zeebrugge and Antwerp (Belgium) and Rotterdam (the Netherlands) in the further development of a trans-European transport network after the Brexit. The French oppose fiercely, accusing Europe of forgetting their […]
Belgium invests hardly 0,3% of its gross national product in road infrastructure. Only in Ireland the figures of governmental investments are even smaller, according to OESO. Investments in maintenance, however, are important, as we learned from the sad accident of […]
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 […]
Car manufacturer Volvo hopes to be introduced on the stock market in Stockholm before the end of this year. According to the Financial Times, Chinese Volvo owner, Geely, hopes to reach a fair value of 30 billion dollar (± 26,5 […]
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 […]
Ghent has a car-free city centre, Antwerp a Low Emission Zone (LEZ), but Dutch or French motorists who entered the car-free centre or the low emission zone escape the fines because they cannot be traced down via the number plate […]
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 […]
The artificial island project for storm protection in front of the coast of Knokke-Heist (Belgium) has been put on hold. Federal Secretary to the North Sea, Philippe De Backer, says it doesn’t meet with the marine space development plan. Flemish […]
In a survey Flemish mobility club VAB asked 2.000 Flemish consumers about their interest in electric cars. This is still very low and the reason is their distrust of the Flemish government: they fear that it might change the present […]
Foreign drivers, who ignore the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in Antwerp or enter a road closed for cars, a so-called ‘snip’, are rarely fined because the software system fails. This way the city of Ghent lost approximately 675.000 euro in […]
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 […]
The city of Brussels has been rapped on its knuckles by a European study focusing on the air pollution in touristic cities. The whole territory of the Brussels Metropolitan Region – 19 municipalities – is a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) […]
Audi CEO, Rupert Stadler (55), remains in jail after the Munich (Landgericht) court rejected his appeal against his arrest. Stadler was arrested eight weeks ago on suspicion of having allowed the sales of Audis with cheating software, while being aware […]
In comparison with 4 years ago the second-hand market in Belgium has risen 17% in 2017. The total value of sold second-hand cars was for the first time more than 2 billion euro in Belgium in 2017. At the same […]
Six weeks after the introduction of the shared electric Troty scooters in Brussels, the city of Liège starts with its own Troty fleet. The red and black shared scooters can achieve a 25 kph speed, have a range of 40 […]
Soon there will be a new car brand on the market: Polestar. CEO Thomas Ingenlath has high hopes for the brand: “We don’t want to kill Tesla, our first aim is to expand the until now poor choice of electric […]
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 […]
Several manufacturers meet delivery problems at the moment, not because there’s a lack of cars but because the right homologation papers are missing. Last week we already reported about delivery problems for Mercedes in the Benelux, today it becomes clear […]
Punctuality remains a problem for Belgian Railway Company, NMBS/SNCB. In an internal memo, glanced through by the Walloon newspaper, L’Avenir, the railway company states that its 89% target for punctuality will not be achieved this year, and that it has […]
A few hours after Flemish Mobility Minister, Ben Weyts (N-VA), returned from vacation, he had to blew the whistle on the agency for roads and traffic (Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer, AWV) for the drastic change of priority regulation for bicycle-riders […]
Daimler CEO, Dieter Zetsche, has announced that Daimler daughter, Smart, will go full electric and sell electrically driven cars from 2020 onward. A brave decision for a manufacturer who hasn’t made money since 20 years. It means that only the […]
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla, under growing pressure ‘to show the money’ that will be needed to get Tesla private, explains in a blog, published on Monday, he is convinced he has the ‘funding secured’ by the Saudi’s […]
Porsche CEO, Oliver Blume, has declared that Porsche wants to save 6 billion euro within the next 3 years because of the lower benefit margins on electric cars. In an interview with the Stuttgarter Zeitung and the Stuttgarter Nachrichten Blume […]
The Swedish group, Bilia, has just created Bilia Holding Flanders to reinforce its presence in Belgium. More and more foreign groups seem to be very interested in the Belgian car distribution, especially of premium brands. Belgian dealers were for a […]
Since the controversial plans for the redevelopment and widening of the Brussels Ring (part North) came up in 2014, opinions are still dived on whether it will be a broadening or an optimization. Recently, the Flemish Government did organize a public consultation, […]
Belgian-Dutch bicycle store chain, Fiets!, is closing five of its shops in Flanders and asks protection against its creditors. The chain was booming thanks to the popularity of the e-bike, but fierce competition of online discounters in the Netherlands cooked […]
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 […]
On several places in Flanders the priority regulation for bike-riders at crossings will change, giving motorized traffic priority to bicycle-riders. On spots where cars until now had to stop to give priority to cyclists, the situation is now just the […]
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 […]
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