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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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Febiac, Belgian and Luxembourg car and two-wheeler federation, and Renta, Belgian Federation of Vehicle Rental Companies, launch a new comprehensive knowledge platform on which they want to inform individuals, professionals and journalists about the major challenge of a rapidly evolving […]
After twelve years, the curtain falls on the Airbus A380, one of Europe’s most daring industrial projects. On Thursday, at a press conference, Airbus CEO, Tom Enders, admitted that there was no longer a market for such a mega plane. […]
The French state has announced it will invest 700 billion euro the next five years in the development of a next generation battery industry in Europe, the so-called ‘the Airbus of batteries’. In December, France and Germany have signed a […]
American car maker Ford, employing 13.000 people in the UK, increases pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May to avoid a ‘catastrophic hard Brexit’. All options are open, including a transfer of production to the continent. The European car manufacturers’ federation […]
Flemish IT service provider, Cegeka, is joining the battle for the licenses of the ultra-fast internet of the future, 5G. The latter is key for the autonomous car, but also for numerous other applications, like ‘smart cities’, health care to […]
Almost 180.000 people in Belgium are using shared cars, the number of users tripled in three years. In Flanders the number of users went up with 250%, in Brussels even with 350%, according to figures from the Flemish Network for […]
Given the stringent CO2 emission rules in Europe, manufacturers have no choice than to roll out electrification. It requires huge investments in a difficult market and it’s not sure if the customer can be convinced so quickly. In the next […]
It looks like in the Netherlands the new e-car driver is getting cured of his ‘range anxiety’. At Fastned, pioneering the first nationwide network of fast charging stations, they see their clients ‘behave more and more like petrol drivers’. Bart […]
Fifteen projects have won the Smart Mobility Call and will benefit from the four million euro investment. Belgian Federal Ministers of Digital Agenda, Alexander De Croo (Open Vld), and Mobility, François Bellot (MR), launched the Call last year with an […]
After being heavily criticized for giving a contract to a ‘ferry company without ships’, British government has pulled the plug last week of the intended new Ramsgate-Ostend ferry line after Brexit. The British Minister for Transport, Chris Grayling, had put […]
Brussels-Nice by plane, train, coach or car: which one pollutes the least and what is the cheapest means of transportation? The Belgian company CO2logic-Greentripper, a pioneer in environmental calculations, reduction and compensation of CO2 gives the answers. Only CO2 In […]
Making calls while driving may soon be a thing of the past in Belgium’s capital. The Brussels region is working on a digital solution that would allow the smartphone screen to be blocked in order to prevent motorists from calling […]
The toll collection for private cars that Germany wants to impose is not discriminating foreign drivers, as is the conclusion of Nils Wahl, an important advisor to the European Court of Justice. According to Wahl, the so-called ‘Maut’ does not […]
While sceptics are convinced that the electric car only sells when large subsidies are given, professional investors believe the turning point is nearing. EVs are getting cheaper, with its most expensive component, the battery, dropping with 80% in price in […]
The French-Japanese alliance between Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi is preparing to sign an agreement to join forces with Waymo (also daugther of Google’s parent company Alphabet) on autonomous cars. That was unveiled by Japanese business newspaper, Nikkei. According to the […]
According to Lydia Peeters, Flemish Minister of Energy (Open Vld), it is unsure whether the tax advantages for cars running on CNG and plug-in hybrids will be extended after 2020. Peeters believes a (too) long extension of the tax exemptions […]
The streets of many European cities are flooded with shared electric scooters but not in the Netherlands yet. The reason for the decline and ban of this – elsewhere – popular vehicle is the tragic accident last October with a […]
The EU Commission is blocking the fusion of French train builder, Alstom, with its German competitor, Siemens. That was confirmed on Wednesday by EU Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, responsible for competition in the Union. The EU thinks a merger would limit […]
The new car manufacturer, Automobili Pininfarina, will launch an electric hyper car called Battista at the coming Geneva Motorshow. The car will have 1.900 horsepower from four electric motors and cost around 2 million euro. Not so long ago the […]
The development of electric vehicles (EV) is slowed down by the absence of a common standard to charge it. We must get rid of the conflicting private and collective interests as soon as possible. When we fuel up cars with […]
A study team of the Louvain University (KU Leuven, Belgium) wants to investigate if thorium nuclear power plants can provide part of the energy of the future. They hope to have thorium energy on the energy net before 2050. The […]
An older diesel car is still interesting for second-hand buyers. The second-hand car market concerns for 93% individual car buyers and they have no ‘green reflex’ yet. “In the second-hand market the diesel car is still a good buy”, says […]
A majority of Dutch, 58%, is now in favour of the introduction of a kilometre tax. Only 20% is opposed. A new survey by I&O Research, published by newspaper De Volkskrant, sparks the discussion in The Netherlands again. Apparently, traffic […]
A large amount of the tax cuts for electric cars in the Netherlands (totalling 700 million euro in 2018) were accorded to rich people. Almost half of the 25.000 fully electric cars sold last year were Teslas and Jaguars with […]
The Belgian public transport companies – NMBS/SNCB, MIVB/STIB, De Lijn and TEC – are working on an overall app offering its users the best combination of public transport. The idea was supported by the Ministers François Bellot (MR) and Alexander […]
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