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On Friday German car makers BMW and Daimler announced an investment of one billion euro in their merged mobility services. Actually it concerns five joint ventures: Reach Now (mobility services), Charge Now (charging of EVs), Free Now (taxi ride-hailing), Park […]
Bram Schot, the CEO of car manufacturer Audi wants to save 15 billion euro the next 4 years,. This means scrapping engines, managerial posts and the night-shift in the Ingolstadt plant. Schot on the other hand thinks by 2023 25% […]
The mobility budget is likely to start with a wider choice of cars than initially stated. Approximately 10% instead of 4% of the existing models will be considered. The strict emission standards will only be introduced gradually from 105 g/km […]
The Walloon Public Transport Operator (OTW) presents its ambitious plan for 2023. It aims at increasing the number of transported passengers by 25% and by 150% for 2030. It wants to reduce CO2 emissions by 30%. Free public transport still […]
If one in three Belgians worked at home regularly, there would be five deaths and 39 seriously injured people less on the road every year. And if the number of teleworkers doubles, then every year cars will travel 25 million […]
Hype expands its fleet of 100 (Hyundai) hydrogen taxis in Paris on Friday, with 500 Toyota Mirai by the end of next year. That’s the first goal of HysetCo, a joint-venture set up by taxi company STEP (Hype), Toyota France, […]
In the future, newly produced cars will have to be much safer. The Internal Market commission voted on Thursday for the mandatory integration of more safety systems in new cars. Goal is to halve the number of traffic victims on […]
Herbert Diess, CEO of the VW Group, is worried about the possibility of 25% import taxes on foreign cars in the US, the so-called Trump tax. It could cost VW at least 13% of its expected benefits every year. “It’s […]
The electricity networks have major problems keeping up with the growth due to diversification of the power supply and rising demand. That is what Ingrid Thijssen, CEO of the Dutch network administrator Alliander, says. She warns against an imminent capacity […]
The new Mobility Budget will allow employees to allocate their company car budget to other, supposedly greener, means of transport. Yet, electric scooters, hoverboards and unicycles aren’t included in the bill. Ecolo points to a much too slow adaptation of […]
By 2030, twice as many goods will have to be transported by rail. It is a lot more ecological and it would also make our traffic more fluent. However, different handicaps might slow down the breakthrough of the freight train. […]
The Dutch national Planning Bureau (PlanBureau voor de Leefomgeving, PBL) was considered an impartial, all-knowing referee. Severe miscalculations of the boom of electric cars in the Netherlands among others, costing double the estimates, put it now under fire. On the […]
Supported by D’Ieteren’s Lab Box, Lizy shakes the car leasing sector up with its new online platform. The young Belgian start-up offers low-mileage used cars for short-term lease at 15 to 40% cheaper rates than conventional leases. In Belgium, leasing […]
Driving economically can yield a profit for the environment. Still, this aspect is completely ignored in the climate debate. “A missed opportunity”, says Martin Kroon, former project leader of The New Driving, (Het Nieuwe Rijden). Driving more economically Between 1990 […]
The Stuttgart office of the public prosecutor has opened an administrative procedure against Porsche and Daimler in the dieselgate affair. Both might have to pay substantial fines like Volkswagen and Audi before. In both cases the administrative procedure adds to […]
After dieselgate, the VW Group completely changed course. With its special electric car platform (MEB) it not only serves a lot of new electric cars inside the group, it also wants to conquer the world by offering it to other […]
Dutch telecom operator, T-Mobile, is going to offer ‘basic’ 5G internet access nationwide in the Netherlands by the end of 2020. First to be connected is The Hague, where test locations are set up this year, before rolling out in […]
With seven out of ten Formula One teams based in the UK, experts are wondering what effect Brexit will have on their performance. Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolf, worries about longer customs clearances that could affect the logistics. Others worry […]
Every year more large drones fly in Belgium. The Federal Public Service Mobility has already registered more than 2.300 devices. Small leisure drones don’t need to be registered, but the heavier ones do. The number of pilot’s licences to control […]
Belgian-Luxembourg transport giant, Jost Group, is furious about the confiscation of 19 trucks by the federal public prosecutor. The company is accused of social fraud, social dumping and human trafficking. Summary proceedings The federal public prosecutor wanted to confiscate 300 […]
In January, more than 21 million litres of bio-ethanol fuel (E85) were sold in France. Homologation of E85 conversion kits in late 2017 helped popularity of this kind of fuel. The price: costing half the price of petrol. Bio-ethanol, produced […]
Ford has invented a smart bed, using automotive technology to keep an ‘invading sleeper’ at his own side of the bed. A ‘lane keeping bed’, as it were. Normally bed partners are happy to sleep close to each other after […]
France and Germany are launching a joint offensive to change European competition rules and allow ‘European champions’ to face industrial giants worldwide. Meanwhile, the European Parliament has drawn the red lines for negotiations with the US in the looming trade […]
The common speed camera is past its peak. It is replaced by ANPR cameras. The first speed camera was inaugurated on December 17th, 1997 in Flanders. In 2013 there still were 1.455 of such cameras along the Flemish regional roads […]
Negotiators of the EU Parliament and the European Council have come to a final agreement to reduce CO2 emissions of trucks by 30% (compared to 2019) in 2030 and by 15% in 2025. These are the first emission rules for […]
Belgian national mobility club Touring pleads for a re-federalisation of decision making about mobility and wants a Marshall plan for Belgian transport and its infrastructure. In view of the coming general elections (May 26th 2019), the mobility organisation has send […]
Launched in 2017, the Allianz Bonus Drive app monitors drivers’ behaviours to reduce their car insurance premium if they adopt a good and safe driving style. The current average score stands at 82%, which allows for a 35% price reduction. […]
Belgium supports fossil fuels with some 2,7 billion euro a year in tax breaks. This is the conclusion of a study by the Climact consultancy commissioned by WWF for the period 2014-2016. For example, Belgium encourages the use of individual […]
With the addition of Opel two years ago, PSA now stands in second place on the Belgian sales podium with a 18,89% market share. CEO of the Benelux branch, Stéphane Levi, gives his opinion on the group’s future, social tensions, […]
Limbourg climate company, Nuhma, and energy provider, RWE, want to connect the Dutch gas power plant in Maasbracht (the Netherlands) with the Belgian electricity grid. This way a blackout can be avoided when there is a lack of electricity in […]
Japanese car maker, Honda, is going to close its car plant in Swindon (UK) in 2021. 3.500 people are likely to lose their job. Honda says the decision to close its only European factory is driven by a slow-down of […]
According to some researchers of the University of Colarado (US), roasting meat or vegetables in the kitchen or at the table is extremely polluting. “Quality of the air in-house gets worse than the air in Dehli”, the researchers say. Quite […]
With elections on the horizon on May 26th, the Belgian Federation for cars and cycle (Febiac) publishes a document asking for an inter-regional pact on car taxation. The federation wants a simpler and greener tax system with an intelligent kilometre […]
Women ride a lot faster than men on the electric bicycle. This is clear from the Monitor project by the safety institute Vias and the FPS Mobility, for which more than 10.000 Belgians accurately track all their journeys. This shows, […]
Last year the average length of the daily traffic jams in the Flanders Region has ‘shrunk’ with eight kilometres to 150 km. But not on the Brussels’ and the Antwerp ring roads. Ghent meanwhile fears if Antwerp solves its traffic […]
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