According to the Walloon Agency for Road Safety (AWSR), micro-cars or quadricycles are twice as more deadly than mopeds when an accident occurs. In four years, Wallonia counted 182 injured passengers and four deaths. The Walloon Agency for Road Safety […]
Lithium Werks, the company of former Booking.com founder, Kees Koolen, will invest together with Chinese partners and banks 1,6 million euro in a new lithium-ion battery factory in the Yangtze region in China. Lithium Werks will provide approximately one fourth […]
Sources close to the dossier indicate that Uber is on track for an IPO in 2019. The ride-hailing company should enter the stock market at more than 100 billion dollar, the biggest ever in the technology sector. Ever since CEO, […]
Dutch navigation specialist, TomTom, has lost another big name, Volvo, to Google in the ‘dashboard battle’, the company announced on Tuesday in the margin of its quarterly previsions update. The Swedish car maker would keep on working with TomTom for […]
Belgian railway company, NMBS/SNCB, has announced that bicycles will no longer be allowed on trains during rush hours as from next year. A remarkable decision, especially since a lot of major companies are pushing their employees to commute by bike. […]
In the wake of ‘dieselgate’, VW daughter Audi has accepted to pay an 800 million euro fine inflicted by the German justice and has added that “it accepts its responsibility in the case”. The fine is the result of a […]
For safety reasons, Amsterdam (the Netherlands) is planning to ban mopeds from the bicycle paths but not consistently. The situation will be judged street by street. Other cities in the Netherlands might follow. Earlier several cities in the Netherlands were […]
Cycling on an e-bike is far from as dangerous as was assumed until now. The risk of ending up in a hospital is just as high as the chance of being injured as an ordinary cyclist. SafetyNL (VeiligheidNL) draws this […]
Belgian pilot, Stoffel Vandoorne, exchanges Formula 1 where he was driving for McLaren as a teammate of Fernando Alonso, for the electric Formula E championship. Formula E is not a classic motor sport and it is meant to ‘reinvent motor […]
Whether they are start-ups or conventional motor scooter makers, everyone is jumping on the electric scooter bandwagon. A new generation is hitting the streets. Without emissions and relatively cheap, the e-scooter is getting easier to charge and could play a […]
BMW has chosen to team up with Belgian material supplier and recycling group, Umicore, and Swedish battery manufactuere start-up, Northvolt, to create the fist fully European battery supply chain. The three actors will collaborate on the assembly, from the procurement […]
American car manufacturer, Ford, prefers to close down its French gearbox plant near Bordeaux (France) to a take-over by Punch Powerglide based in Strasbourg, a company ran by Belgian businessman, Guido Dumarey. Belgian entrepreneur In the near future, Ford will […]
On Monday, German police has raided Opel sites in Rüsselsheim and Kaiserslautern in an alleged software fraud affair with Euro 6 diesels. The ‘watchdog’ of the German car industry, Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA), wants Opel to recall some 95.000 cars of the […]
European transport companies have filed a complaint against six truck manufacturers – DAF, Iveco, Daimler, MAN, Scania and Volvo/Renault – for the formation of a cartel in the period between 1997 and 2011. 1,2 billion euro The first claims were […]
The city council of Paris is continuing its efforts to improve the quality of life and air in the French capital. On the first Sunday of the month, the centre of the capital will now be closed to traffic. Mayor […]
Just as this year’s Paris Motor Show closes its doors, Chief Commissioner Jean-Claude Girot confirms that the event welcomed more than one million visitors even though it was five days shorter than before and many car makers weren’t present. Back […]
This year, the Belgian railway company, NMBS /SNCB, will start placing ‘anti-terror poles’ or bollards at the entrance of some twenty train stations in the country. They will replace the concrete blocks that had already been placed temporarily to prevent […]
At this year’s Paris Motor Show, BMW CEO Harald Krüger admits that the brand is going through tough times because of the new WLTP regulations and the US-China trade war. For the future, the CEO aims at 25% sales of […]
Helsinki, with Antwerp following in its wake, crowns itself ‘Capital of Mobility as a Service’ (MaaS), being the first city in the world where it is widely possible to buy the mobility you need instantly from public transport to rented […]
Last week the Netherlands have been experimenting with 250 special trucks, driving the same route close after each other in a technique called ‘platooning’. Goal of the coupled trucks is to save space on the road, to save (5 to […]
In Belgium electric car sales far from a success, while electric bicycles, and more specifically the speed pedelecs, are booming. The Bloomberg agency expects the future of e-mobility will be rather on two wheels than on four, especially in overcrowded […]
Antwerp start-up, Lifepowr, has developed a concept to provide for their own power without using the grid by using solar panels, batteries and dedicated software. By producing and storing electricity locally and use it on the spot, the price per […]
The European Parliament and the State members have revised the 2004 guidelines on workers protection against harmful substances. They have added eight new chemicals, including diesel emissions. The exposure limit has been fixed to 0,05 mg/m3. Back in 2004, the […]
The company ‘Drone-future’ wants to start a pilot project in Malines (Belgium) early next year to deliver parcels by a drone. “We want to be the first in the world to come out with a system that makes it possible, […]
Asian airline company, Singapore Airlines, is relaunching its longest flight in the world: a direct flight from Singapore to New York (US) taking 18 hours and 45 minutes. For the flights the A350-900 ULR (Ultra Long Range) is used. The […]
The Belgian safety institute, VIAS, points out in its latest thematic report that the number of deadly highways accidents has increased in the last two years, especially in Wallonia. From 36,3 deaths per 1.000 accidents in 2016, this increased to […]
Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen Group, has declared that the newly decided EU restrictions on CO2 emissions can endanger up to 100.000 jobs within the group. “A transformation at this speed is practically unmanageable, in 10 years one third […]
LeasePlan announced on Thursday it is no longer planning its stock-market launch in Amsterdam and Brussels for the next weeks because its main shareholders today fear they won’t get the price they had in mind. The financial climate was cooling […]
Handicapped by the escalating trade war between the US and China, the German car manufacturer, BMW, has announced that it will invest an additional 3,6 billion euro in its local production in China. By doing so, BMW is the first […]
Flemish Minister for Mobility and Public Works, Ben Weyts (N-VA), has asked the agency for roads and traffic (Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer) an extra study on the feasibility of bringing the A12 partly underground. The municipalities of Aartselaar, Hemiksem, Schelle […]
The Rotterdam district of Rozenburg is starting a trial to heat houses with hydrogen. Steden, the network operator for gas and electricity in South Holland, announced this on Thursday. It is the first time that houses are heated directly with hydrogen. […]
The EU compromise on 35% CO2 reduction in 2030, concluded by the European Environmental Ministers in Luxembourg on Thursday, raised a storm of reactions ranging from ‘too little and disappointing’ over ‘acceptable and feasible’ to ‘unrealistic and dangerous’. An overview. […]
Russian cargo airline, AirBridgeCargo, has chosen Liège Airport as its European hub with thirty flights per day and 400 new jobs in 2019. That new contract will push Belgium’s first freight airport into the top five of Europe by 2020. […]
Europe’s biggest electricity producer, Electricité de France (EDF), aims at becoming the leader in providing ‘electric mobility’, powering 600.000 electric vehicles by 2022 in its four major EU markets: France, Belgium, Italy and the UK. That ambition was unveiled on […]
Traffic guiding system, Waze, will offer carpooling services in all of America. The Israeli start-up, acquired by Google in 2013, with almost 110 million users worldwide, wants to be present in all kind of mobility aspects. After being tested in […]
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