The Belgian road safety institute, Vias, has realized an inquiry indicating that users of radar-detectors get more fines for speeding than nonusers. Coyote, one of the producers of such devices, contests the results. According to the inquiry, 22% of the […]
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, […]
On airline tickets from airports in the Netherlands, travellers will have to pay approximately 7 euro tax from 2021 onward. The Rutte III government has announced this Friday afternoon. The measure does not apply to transfer passengers, passengers only changing […]
Due to the growing popularity of larger SUV models and people switching to petrol in the smaller car segment, the average CO2 emissions of new Belgian diesel cars increased in 2017 with 1% compared to 2016. according to figures from […]
Since the beginning of the new high-speed train line project (TAV) that should connect Turin to the French city of Lyon through a tunnel dug under the Alps, the Piemont Region has been divided between supporters and opponents. Saturday, around […]
Uber as well as rival Lyft are preparing to go public. The first is planning to do this fairly soon and be first on the stock market in the first quarter of next year, while Lyft is aiming for the […]
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), every year 1,35 million people worldwide are getting killed in a traffic accident. More than one quarter of it are bike-riders and pedestrians, as was communicated by the WHO on Sunday in Geneva. […]
Flanders is going to provide a 4,1 million euro subsidy for a floating solar park, as has announced Flemish Energy Minister, Bart Tommelein (Open Vld). Floating solar parks already exist in other countries, mainly in Asia. Floating production of renewable […]
By scrapping tax rises on fuel until 2020 and freezing prices of gas and electricity it looks the Yellow Jacket movement has forced French government to its knees. Nevertheless, fearing a new wave of extreme violence in Paris on Saturday, […]
Emissions of the Dutch vehicle fleet continue to rise. The cause is to be found in the newly sold SUVs. Their emissions are 10% higher than three years ago. “People buy bigger, heavier cars again”, says Floris Liebrand of the […]
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 […]
Coca-Cola European Partners Belux is putting its best foot forward in becoming greener by getting the first 10 Hyundai Kona Electrics delivered, before official delivery to private clients in Belgium starts in January 2019. Reducing CO2 emissions by 50% “We, […]
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 […]
Provinces, municipalities, the cabinet and social organizations in the Netherlands are going to cooperate to improve traffic safety, as was announced on Thursday. Goals is zero deaths by 2030. The decision is taken because the decrease of the number of […]
Greenhouse gases are not decreasing, on the contrary. CO2 is to increase 2,7% compared to 2017. Still, some climatologists are hopeful. Corinne Le Quéré, director of the Ryndall Centre for Climate Research, and her colleagues, and former United Nations climate […]
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 […]
Yesterday, Walloon Minister, Willy Borsus (MR), inaugurated the first CNG filling station of the Luxembourg Province, located on the Molinfaing industrial estate in Neufchâteau. Next year, two other stations should be opened in Arlon and Marche. By 2020, Belgium plans […]
Last Tuesday, several Japanese media say that the Tokyo court is going file new charges against Carlos Ghosn for under-reporting earnings and misuse of company assets for the 2015-2017 period. The Brazilian-born Renault CEO will, most likely, be spending Christmas […]
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) […]
American Waymo is the first company in the world to have launched a paid taxi service with autonomous cars. On Wednesday, the first passengers stepped into a robot taxi in Phoenix (Arizona, US). Although the taxis are self-driving, there is […]
Tesla announced on Wednesday it will start delivering its Model 3 in Europe in February 2019. Delivery will be done on first come, first served base: those who paid a 1.000 euro deposit in March 2016, will get it first […]
Decathlon, the French chain of sports stores, is planning to install solar panels on the roofs of its establishments in Turnhout, Roeselare and Maasmechelen (Belgium). Clients and citizens will be able to participate in the project and to share in […]
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 […]
French car maker, Renault, is starting a free-floating car sharing service with 200 electric Zoe cars in Amsterdam by January 2019. If the new service – a name has to be chosen yet – is successful, Renault will extend its […]
Volkswagen plans to sell its last cars with combustion engines – petrol or diesel – by 2040, VW’s strategic director, Michael Jost, has told the newspaper Handelsblatt. “The last car to be launched on a traditional platform will be in […]
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump has welcomed the top executives of German car makers Daimler, VW and BMW at the White House for a brief meeting in which he invited them to produce more in the US itself to avoid […]
The so-called ‘Japanese crossing square’ at the Dusart bus stop in Hasselt (Belgium) has received a positive evaluation, although some changes will be made. The special organization at the large crossing square, where pedestrians coming from different directions can cross […]
In the presence of Flemish Mobility Minister, Ben Weyts (N-VA), local authorities of Glabbeek (Vlaams Brabant province, Belgium) have inaugurated a so-called ‘mobility point’ on Tuesday. The mobility point, or shortly ‘mobi-point’ is situated nearby a bus stop and consists […]
Chinese Tianqi Lithium Corp, one of the top three lithium miners in the world, is closing its deal to acquire 24% of its Chilean competitor, SQM, for more than 4,1 billion dollar. The Chinese got the green light from the […]
Thirty new routes for super-trucks or ecocombis that connect to Flemish motorways have just been approved. That reports the Agency for Roads and Traffic (AWV). “Only the safest routes haven been selected”, the Flemish authorities say. Short history In mid-2014, […]
Shell is one of the first large oil companies that is making a connection between top salaries and CO2 emissions. It’s a promise the company made to action group Climate Action 100+, a group of several institutional investors, like BNP […]
After painful discussions that went on deep into the night on Monday, the Transport Ministers of the EU member states have reached a compromise in the reform of road transport and to tackle social dumping. Eight member states rejected in […]
Next year SeaMade, a cooperation with main shareholder Otary, Engie Electrabel and Eneco Wind Belgium, will start with the construction of two new wind farms – Mermaid and Seastar – in the North Sea. Together, they will form the largest […]
While the Belgian car market is progressing, the Belgian association of the automotive sector, Traxio, announces in its 2017 report that the average margin of the automotive distribution sector is reducing from 1,75 to 1,61%. Explanation is to be found […]
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