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Car manufacturers and importers that previously concentrated on new car sales are now creating a comfortable nest in the used car market. It’s easy to see why. In France alone, that market grew by 7,8% between 2016 and 2017 while […]
Jay Inslee, a Democratic candidate for the presidency and governor of the state of Washington (US), pushes the climate issue way forward on the democratic agenda. He is solely talking about this, to make his point perfectly clear and convincing. […]
Shared electric step scooter providers Hive and Wind will stop offering services in Brussels. They have only been active there since June 20th and July 17th respectively. It is not clear if the stop is temporary or permanent. The Brussels […]
In his seven-pages-long starting note to assist negotiations for a new Flemish government, Bart De Wever limits the ‘climate ambitions’ to achieving the ‘sky-high’ goals already set. But at the same time, he sees a role for Flanders to become […]
According to climate targets, there should be 15.000 hydrogen cars in the Netherlands by 2025. At the moment, there are barely 150 hydrogen-powered vehicles in the Dutch car fleet. Realistic objective? Is the objective realistic? After all, there are only […]
While electric step scooters are not road legal in The Netherlands, France is debating stricter rules because of their popularity. Since there is no European legislation for electric step scooters, the regulations in every country are different. Many Dutch buy […]
The Dutch mobility organization VVN (Veilig Verkeer Nederland) asks more attention for the use of laughing gas in traffic. According to new figures from the police, the number of incidents due to laughing gas is steadily increasing. Until July 2019, […]
The new government of the Brussels Region is going to scrap 65.000 on-street parking spaces, a measure many Western European cities are taking. Less than 200.000 should remain by 2030, while there are around 265.000 at the moment. The objective […]
From 23 September, the Helicus company will start a regular drone transport service once a week between 21 hospitals from Antwerp and the surrounding area. The crewless aircraft will transport tissue, samples, medicines, and blood. And from December, all the […]
More and more commuters opt for a leased bicycle to avoid traffic jams. “Today, there are 40.000 leased company bikes, while the phenomenon still was non-existant hardly two years ago,” says Tom Vlaminck, who is responsible for leased bikes at […]
The Jtekt Torsen limited-slip differential manufacturing plant, based in the Belgian province of Hainaut, is suffering from slow diesel car sales, as do other automotive suppliers, like Bosch. Advanced automation and the development of products for electric cars have to […]
The giant automotive supplier Continental is changing course. The company saw an important regress in its financial results and will now focus on electrification. The whole automotive industry is getting under pressure, and the suppliers of those car manufacturers are […]
Politicians in France’s less central areas are angry about the growing lack of public transport outside metropolitan areas. Local train services are being discontinued in favor of the TGV and bus services canceled, deemed uneconomic. Rural France feels disconnected from […]
Bosch is one of the biggest automotive suppliers in the world. Because of the severely diminished demand for diesel cars, the company fears that several thousands of jobs will disappear. Worldwide, the German industrial giant employs around 410.000 people. The […]
Mining giant Glencore has announced that it will close the largest cobalt mine in the world. The price of cobalt has decreased, and the offer is starting to exceed the demand. In a letter to the personnel, British-Swiss mining giant […]
The 33 communities of the Antwerp transport region are considering the start-up of a network of more than 1.000 shared e-bikes. The news was announced by the Flemish newspaper, Gazet van Antwerpen, but was later confirmed by the local authorities. […]
Two Frenchmen have started an organization for the regulation of free-floating electric step scooters. Both of their partners got hit by this mode of transport they call dangerous. The association is called Apacauvi, short for ‘Association philanthropique action contre l’anarchie […]
How will your mobility look like in twenty years from now? French newspaper, Le Figaro, probed several experts for their future visions. “Mobility solutions will be abundant, tailor-made, and invoiced per kilometer.” When people try to envision mobility in the […]
The Italian car brand, Lancia, has only one model left to sell, the Ypsilon. It only sells in Italy, and nevertheless, it sold more cars in the first half of the year than its sister brand, Alfa Romeo. In June […]
The Belgian telecom operators are launching a joint campaign that advises against cell phone use behind the wheel. In a new awareness-raising campaign, on the initiative of the Flemish Foundation for Traffic Studies (VSV), Base, Mobile Vikings, Orange, Proximus, Scarlet, […]
Brussels Environment has developed a calculator that allows Brussels residents and commuters to measure the impact of their daily journeys on air quality. In the capital, 632 premature deaths are attributed each year to poor air quality and the emission […]
For two months, a bus lent by the Walloon public transport company, TEC, will run up and down a closed portion of the road to see what impact on air quality a switch to biodiesel would have. The bus will […]
After six years of darkness on the Dutch highways, the Netherlands has decided to switch on the lights again for safety reasons. In Belgium, Flanders has no intentions to follow the Dutch example, Wallonia is rather betting on ‘intelligent lighting’. […]
The group purchase of an EV organized by the Flemish authorities is finished. Between half of January and half of May, 112 new electric vehicles were ordered through the initiative. In 2020, the Flemish government wants 60.000 electric cars on […]
Airplanes have never been so full of passengers, yet airlines are encountering difficulties. In one year, Ryanair lost nearly 33% of its market value while Lufthansa lost 36%. Easyjet dropped by 41%, and IAG (British Airways, Iberia & Vueling) decreased […]
Company cars are under siege. Nevertheless, not all of them are bad. Due to their frequent renewal, they reduce their CO2 emissions quicker than individually owned vehicles. The recent change to petrol from diesel has negatively influenced this tendency. It’s […]
Air conditioning in the car has become an almost unavoidable option because of the comfort, but not without impact on your budget. Indeed, to operate correctly, the system must be maintained regularly, and if you have to recharge with gas, […]
Electric cars are criticized because, according to critics, they emit a lot of fine dust, produced by the tires and brakes. Today, it also becomes clear that the road surface wears out much faster from EVs, compared to ICE vehicles. […]
With the number of electric cars expected to explode in the next five years, Europe desperately wants its battery factories and is making eyes now at Portugal for its lithium. But the locals at Seia in the green Serra da […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) wants to stop investing billions in fossil fuel projects by the end of 2020. EIB makes this major change because the world is not on track to meet the Paris climate targets. “An important signal,” […]
While 2020-2021 is announcing as a tipping point for the electric car, Flanders is still having only 36 fast chargers operational along its major roads, lagging seriously behind compared to countries like The Netherlands, with over 200 already. Agonizing slow […]
The Rhine, the backbone of river freight transport in Western Europe, is once again at risk of drying up. At Kaub, a key landmark near Frankfurt, the water level dropped by half (to 1,5 meters) in less than a month. […]
A new vicious hype has popped up in the southern French port of Marseille. Since the school vacation, hundreds of e-steps have deliberately been thrown in the Mediterranean sea. The offenders are children, often not even ten years old. “We’ve […]
Within five years, the production of electric vehicles (EV) will probably grow sixfold in Europe. But how the mining of cobalt is organized remains a disgrace, tarnishing the sustainable image of EVs. Two-thirds of the world’s cobalt reserves are situated […]
The car-sharing platform, Drivy, and free-floating electric bicycle service, Billy Bike, get together to promote multi-mobility in Brussels. This summer, users sharing their cars via Drivy will automatically get 200 free minutes of Billy Bike use. “Multi-mobility is the keyword […]
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