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At the same time American car maker, Ford, has announced a vast restructuring of its European branch that probably will cost thousands of jobs and the closure of several factories, British car maker, Jaguar-Land Rover (JLR), annouces to cut 4.500 […]
“Providing smart vehicles for a smart world” is the new strategy that Ford wants also to implement in Europe. It implies restructuring certain activities and rethinking its entire portfolio. Thousands of jobs could be at stake. Ford is starting consultations […]
Car importer and dealer Ginion has just bought rally organizer Master Switch and has become certified BMW Classic specialist for the Benelux. CEO Stéphane Sertang thinks that the passion for old-timers and the leisure of using them will even prosper […]
According to data from Infrabel, the railway infrastructure provider, there were in total 24.247 trains cancelled during last year’s eleven first months, which equals to 73 trains per day or 2% of the traffic. It’s a daily rate of 20 […]
The Japanese court has rejected the demand of Carlos Ghosn to be temporarily released. This came as no surprise and the Renault CEO (and former Nissan President) risks to stay imprisoned until his trial, expected to begin in a few […]
Jean-Pierre Hansen, Regional train (RER/GEN) Piloting Committee president, has announced this Wednesday to the Chamber’s infrastructure commission that he struck a deal with all public transport companies. A single ticket and single pass system will be available in mid-2019 for […]
Last year, twice as many pharmaceutical products were exported via Brussels Airport as in 2015. This makes Belgium the second largest exporter of medicines and health products in Europe, after Germany in absolute volume and after Ireland when the export […]
2018 was a great year for car sharing companies like Cambio, Zipcar and DriveNow with growth up to 12%, The number of users keeps going up thanks to the flexibility of the concept. Market leader and forerunner, Cambio, already has more […]
In 2018, 22,4 million cars were sold in China, thus remaining the biggest market in the world but also regressing 5,8% compared to 2017. It’s the first time in 20 years that the Chinese car market isn’t growing anymore and […]
Heavily government-sponsored electric cars are fleeing the country in the Netherlands massively after five years. For example: from 1.186 Teslas being five years or older in 2018, 753 were sold abroad with only an average of 150.000 km on the […]
The Italian-American car concern, Fiat Chrysler, has achieved an agreement with American authorities to pay off 650 million euro for installing emissions-cheating software in about 104.000 diesel cars in the US to forge the emissions of the cars, as was […]
There is a serious possibility that car manufacturers Ford and Volkswagen are planning to join forces on different domains (commercial vehicles but also electric and autonomous cars). The organizers of the Detroit motor show (NAIAS) have scheduled an important industrial […]
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has become a must for many car manufacturers. At the same time they stay away from classic motor shows. Is Las Vegas the new Motown? Apart from the usual suspects like Samsung, Intel, Sony, Lenovo, […]
Last Friday, the French government has asked the motorway managing companies to freeze all prices for 2019 and put the 1,8% increase on hold. Meanwhile in Spain, the state has decided not to renew contracts for its motorways. Therefore, 2019 […]
The autonomous driving revolution isn’t reserved to a bunch of start-ups anymore. Major original equipment manufacturers (OEM) are taking the lead. French Valeo has developed a self-driving system with an array of fully integrated sensors, while Faurecia is concentrating on […]
The worldwide sales of German premium brands, like BMW and Mercedes, are stagnating. Volvo (owned by Chinese Geely), on the contrary, is flourishing. We already informed about the poor results of the third German competitor, VW daughter Audi, when the […]
A study of the research cabinet Rhodium Group indicates that CO2 emission have seriously increased in the United States in 2018. The increase is 3,4% compared to 2017 and is the highest growth since 2010. The estimation has been realized […]
The Walloon Region is accelerating the switch from orange NaLP (sodium low-pressure) lamps to led lighting on highways and national roads. Starting in May 2019, all 63.810 light poles on 875 km of highways, 350 km of cloverleaves and 695 […]
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Hyundai shows ‘Elevate’, a concept of a car that is able to climb or walk on four legs on very difficult terrain. The yearly CES in Las Vegas in the very […]
Flemish Mobility Minister, Ben Weyts (N-VA), launches another campaign to learn drivers how to merge lanes most efficiently. Sixteen years after the change in traffic rules and the first campaign car users still aren’t used to merge as late as […]
One in eight young Belgian drivers, or 12%, says they drive under the influence of drugs every month. This is evident from the results of the Vias Institute Road Safety Survey for which 6.055 Belgians were questioned. “The true extent […]
This morning (10:30 a.m. Japan, 1:30 a.m. GMT), CEO of Renault and ex-chairman of the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi alliance, Carlos Ghosn, declared having been “falsely accused and unfairly detained”. The 64-year-old asked for the opportunity to appear before the judge, two months […]
With an important number of electric cars coming back from long-term loans, used car lots of French dealers are growing bigger. Yet, the offer still exceeds the demand. Therefore, car makers are doing all they can to reduce purchase hindrances. […]
The British Minister of Transport, Chris Grayling, wanted to see what a no-deal Brexit would cause on the road with huge delays expected at customs at the port of Dover. The ‘exercise’ wasn’t very conclusive and resulted in being a […]
Flemish government is picking up discretely the thread of the development of an express tram connection between Hasselt (Belgium) and Maastricht (the Netherlands). According to a so-called ‘non-paper’ that was discussed during the last Flemish council of ministers. It seems […]
On Monday Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, has officially started – together with officials from the city of Shanghai – construction works on its giga-factory in China. Goal is to finish construction this summer and start building the Model 3 for […]
Philippe Op de Beeck, the (Belgian) CEO of the American Apcoa Parking Group that manages from its HQ in Stuttgart 1,4 million parking spaces on 9.000 locations internationally, is not afraid to get out of business soon. “There will be […]
There’s a changing of the guard at Deme, one of Belgian’s big dredging companies, but the old and the new CEO think almost the same: sustainability is the new key word and Deme wants to play a big role in […]
This year, Flemish transport company, De Lijn, will invest more than 300 million euro in new buses, trams, extra services and infrastructure. The Flemish Minister for Mobility, Ben Weyts (N-VA), has announced this. The budget – a record amount – […]
Starting in 2020, Walloon Mobility Minister, Carlo Di Antonio (cdh), and his Brussels and Flanders colleagues will crack down on particulate filter fraud by equipping technical control centres with new machines. The idea is to stop people from taking the […]
In a television interview on Sunday French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire has vividly defended the intended merger between European train manufacturers Alstom (France) and Siemens (Germany). “The EU refusing a merger would be a big economical and political mistake” […]
Whether they are for taking the train, the bus or the metro, the public transport ticket prices have increased in the last ten years. Some companies have followed the average cost of life increase where other simply increased prices because […]
Minister of Mobility Bellot’s plan to coordinate mobility issues in Belgium on a federal level is ‘torpedoed’ immediately by all regional levels. Flemish Mobility Minister, Ben Weyts, Brussels’ Minister, Pascal Smet, and Walloon minister, Carlo di Antonio, are not pleased […]
Beginning this year, Volkswagen starts experimenting in its home town of Wolfsburg (Germany) with a mobile super-charger station that can accommodate a total of 15 EVs. It takes only 17 minutes on average for the DC quick charger at 100 […]
Since the 16th of January 2017, the fleet of hybrid buses operated by the TEC in the Namur region have driven 2,3 million kilometres and saved 29.000 litres of fuel compared to conventional buses. The now 46 unit strong fleet […]
