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The Board of Directors of Renault this morning decided to end the mandate of Mr. Thierry Bolloré as Chief Executive Officer of Renault SA and President of Renault s.a.s with immediate effect. The Board also decided to appoint, with immediate […]
According to a report from the Consulting Committee for Rail Travelers (CCVF), Belgian rail manager, Infrabel, and operator, SNCB/NMBS, aren’t ready for the 2023 liberalization. The lack of investments, punctuality, or any shared vision is pointed out as significant issues. […]
Beci, Brussels Enterprises Commerce and Industry, launch their ‘City Climate Challenge 303030’. With 30 projects elaborated between now and March next year, they want to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% before 2030. At the end of September, the president of […]
Dutch truck manufacturing company, DAF, is not a die-hard believer in the electric semi-truck, it told Dutch financial newspaper FD. It’s instead focusing on hybrid drivetrains today, with a combustion engine and electric motor. “Reliability takes precedence over rapid innovation,” […]
Green NCAP helps people choose a more eco-friendly car by using a star rating for emissions, just like EuroNCAP does for safety. Introduced earlier this year and supported by governments, mobility organizations, and universities, it tests cars’ emissions in a […]
British billionaire, James Dyson, has finally pulled the plug on his electric car development project, he announced in an email to his staff on Thursday. He and his board of directors see no future for it as it turns out […]
Two days after the introduction of the electric Bird scooters in Luxembourg, the city has threatened to remove them for safety reasons. Local authorities have reserved the right “to ban them if they occupy public space or endanger the safety […]
Alphabet daughter and autonomous car division Waymo has announced it will offer driverless taxi rides in Phoenix. In the last decade, the company has been experimenting with self-driving passenger cars in some outskirts of the city. Until now, there always […]
In a while, Germany has no energy production out of coal or nuclear power anymore. Some say that you can’t resolve this with wind and sun alone. Nuclear power should be prolonged for a while, indicate certain specialists. Both decisions […]
The Finnish fuel company, Neste, introduces renewable diesel to the Dutch market, which is made from offal. The fuel is cleaner than regular diesel and perfectly compatible with conventional engines. By being renewable, it reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 50 […]
The MOBI research group of the Brussels VUB university is investing in a ‘dry room’ for its state-of-the-art pilot production line for the next generation of solid-state batteries. The goal is the development of batteries giving electric cars a range […]
During the first semester of 2019, Wallonia counted 265 road accidents involving trucks. It might only be two more than the previous year, yet they resulted in the death of 31 people compared to 15 last year. Weight and cargo […]
From spring 2020, you will be able to wave-and-pay on every tram and bus in Flanders. In the course of next year, cash on trams and buses will even disappear completely. To this end, the Flemish public transport company, De […]
The French automotive group, Renault, gathers all its mobility activities under one roof with its new subsidiary, Renault Mobility As an Industry (Renault M.A.I.). The aim is to use the brand’s expertise in the mobility sector to make an industry […]
“Flanders will ‘probably’ not meet the set goals to reduce greenhouse gases,” the Climate Minister, Zuhal Demir (N-VA), said in the Flemish Parliament. The climate measures that Belgium has taken until now will not decrease the emissions of greenhouse gases. […]
The Flemish authorities have decided to replace 40 speed control cameras annually by average speed checks because they’re more efficient in the battle against speeding. The Agency for Roads and Traffic (Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer, AWV) has confirmed the plans. […]
With the help of Engie, Umicore has installed a ‘second life’ energy buffer battery at its site in Olen (Belgium). The buffer uses 48 electric car batteries that came from Renault Kangoo vans from the French postal service. It is […]
According to a recent study by IBM, among 11.500 consumers, shortly, people won’t care anymore about which car brand they drive. Almost half of the interviewees (48%) state that by 2030, the costs of the car and the digital ease […]
The French petrochemical group, Total, is attracting new talents because it also invests in renewable energy. It is more than an oil company. That’s what the company’s CEO, Patrick Pouyanné, said during the ‘Oil and Money’ sector conference in London. […]
Three weeks before the deadline, the Nissan board has designated a new CEO. Makoto Uchida will be aided in his new role by two new COOs, Ashwani Gupta and Jun Seki. Meanwhile, the search to replace Thierry Bolloré at the […]
A substantial part of the French maritime sector favors slowing down its ships to reduce emissions. “Reducing the speed of our ships is simple, easy to do from the next day on, and comprehensible for everyone,” says president Philippe Louis-Dreyfus […]
Transporting parcels and goods by tram would be a good idea to release cities from traffic jams, but the solution seems to be far too expensive, for the time being. The road network around cities like Antwerp and Brussels is […]
If we want it or not, the automobile world will turn electric sooner or later. That’s supposing a significant turnaround in the entire industry. But it’s also asking for a re-education of the users of these vehicles with (partly) electric […]
Belgian retailer group, Colruyt, and gas grid manager, Fluxys, are planning to build together a 12 to 25 MW hydrogen electrolysis plant in the harbor of Zeebrugge or Antwerp, to store green electricity of the offshore windmill parks. Their board […]
New regional car taxation rules in Belgium all seem to evolve into making polluting vehicles pay more and less polluting cars less. Not a bad idea, according to D’Ieteren spokesman Jean-Marc Ponteville. The company is an important player in the […]
Anyone who listens to music on a bicycle in traffic is up to ten times more likely to have an accident. Pedestrians and joggers are up to six times more at risk when wearing headphones. This is the conclusion of […]
The number of cars in The Netherlands has risen from 6,34 million in 2000 to over 8,5 million today. But many of those are older, second-hand cars. The average age of a car in The Netherlands today is 10,7 years, […]
For more than three weeks now, American car manufacturer, General Motors, sees his workers in the US on strike. This weekend there was hope that the negotiations would lead to an agreement. Yesterday the unions released a different message: “negotiations […]
The automotive company, VDL dcar, is suffering from the shrinking automotive industry. The company that only works for BMW is forced to drop 700 temporary jobs. The gradual dismissal will start in the week of November 4th and will stop […]
Last Monday, the climate action group, Extinction Rebellion, blocked the central axes in several capitals all over the world. Thousands of rebels gathered in the streets of Amsterdam, London, Berlin, and Madrid, but also in New-Zealand and Australia. Extinction Rebellion […]
Austrian public railway company, ÖBB, plans to start operating a night train between Brussels and Vienna as early as January. That’s what CEO Andreas Matthä said in an interview with the daily Wiener Zeitung on Sunday. A year later, a […]
Philippe Henry (Ecolo), Wallonia’s new Energy, Climate, and Mobility Minister, explains the different measures to be put up to reach the government’s climate objectives. By 2030, greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced by 55%. Proposals include a new road tax […]
The number of air travelers worldwide will be doubled by 2035 to 8 billion passengers. So, where is the ‘flygskam’? But at the same time, the opposition against the noise, pollution and the nuisance, in general, will increase. According to […]
Belgian Engie’s daughter, Electrabel, has a new president: Johnny Thijs. The ex-CEO of Bpost has immediately drawn the attention. In an interview with the newspaper, De Standaard, he says he will be pleading to keep three of the seven nuclear […]
The Dutch railway company, NS, is planning to investigate whether trains can ride autonomously. They will organize test rides with the newest Sprinter SNG train model on the connection between Lelystad and Zwolle (The Netherlands). The tests will be executed […]
