Cowboy, the intelligent and permanent to the internet connected electric bike developed by a Brussels’ start-up is to hit the street. The sleek bike already won the Start-up Award at the 2017 Eurobike in Friedrichshafen (Germany) when presented the first […]
More than 190 police officers have been doing searches at 10 different locations in German counties Baden-Württemberg and Bayern. Porsche has confirmed that also in Zuffenhausen (Stuttgart) searches have taken place and documents have been confiscated. Three persons Three persons […]
July 1st Brussels public transport company MIVB/STIB will inaugurate the new ‘full electric’ bus line 33, connecting the Brussels uptown and downtown, from Dansaert, over Grote Markt, to Louiza. The buses on the line will be the recently bought Polish Solaris […]
Thirty-five Belgium-based companies with big names like Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé and Colruyt, but also smaller transport companies and transport federation Febetra, have written a letter to Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, asking him to force truck manufacturers to […]
German car manufacturer Opel is ending all existing contracts with its European dealers. By doing so, Opel is following the policy of its new owner, the PSA Group, which is adopting the same policy. All 54 Opel dealers in Belgium […]
Recently newmobility.news was able to speak with Carlos Tavares, CEO of the PSA Group (Peugeot, Citroën, DS) that acquired also Opel last year. The most important message for him in the automotive world is: “You have to adapt yourself every […]
Dutch telecom provider KPN is testing an autonomous flying drone taxi in Amsterdam, the Ehang 216 AAV (Autonomous Aerial Vehicle) built by Chinese electronics giant Huawei. Fast mobile internet connection The two-seat autonomous taxi drone is using a fast mobile […]
The Belgian Françoise Chombar, CEO of Melexis, has received the ‘Global Prize for Women Entrepreneurs’ in New York. The prestigious prize rewards the most successful career woman. Four criteria The leading lady of chip producing company Melexis was chosen out […]
Belgium has officially started the screening of flying passengers, a measure that fits in the context of fighting crime and terrorism. Today one-third is already screened but this should soon go up to 60% and later on to 100%. International […]
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla assured in a tweet that “Tesla will be profitable in the third and fourth quarter of this year”. In an interview with CBS he also said that everybody who pre-ordered a Model 3 […]
The last three years the cost of driving a diesel car has gone up with 30% because of taxation, says Flemish mobility club VAB. They analyzed the impact of the new Flemish traffic taxation (2016) and the gradual alignment of […]
Anders Hedin Invest Group, a Swedish car group, buys once again 5 Mercedes dealerships in the Antwerp area. The Belgian car dealers are vulnerable because of low profit and many foreign car groups show interest. The five Mercedes dealerships were […]
On Wednesday Sweden has opened the ‘eRoadArlanda’, a stretch of two kilometre public road equipped with an electric rail in the middle of the driving lane to allow electric vehicles to charge while driving with a sort of upside down […]
Volkswagen Group has unexpectedly decided to revise its managing structure at the top. The present CEO, Mathias Müller is leaving earlier than foreseen, probably to free the way for Herbert Diess, now leading the Volkswagen brand. Mathias Müller had a […]
Flemish research centre IMEC from Louvain has developed a prototype of a solid state battery, where the conductor starts as liquid but becomes a solid material. The researchers claim a break-through, a “first step towards the super battery” with twice […]
With the technical face-lift of the popular Outlander PHEV (plug-in hybrid vehicle) Mitsubishi has announced to aim for an entire energy network, including home, office, loading station and the grid. The substantial technical update of the Outlander PHEV announced at […]
Poppy, the young free-floating car-sharing service in Antwerp supported by D’Ieteren with a fleet of 350 mixed electric and CNG cars, is sharpening its rental conditions to tackle growing misuse and vandalism. Other free-floating car-sharing companies learned the hard way […]
According to research by NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) in Brussels, East-European country Bulgaria, current president of the European Union, is welcoming happily West-Europe’s most polluting second-hand diesels. More than 30.000 in 2017. This while on Tuesday Sofia is guest […]
On Monday Porsche’s three times Le Mans winning 919 Hybrid Evo has broken the fastest track record set ever on the F1 circuit in Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium). Swiss driver Neel Jani did the 7,004 km technically demanding track in 1.41.770 minutes, […]
In Belgium the sales of Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV) are still growing. Where 30% of all sold cars in 2017 were SUVs, this could easily grow to 35% this year. The sales results of the first quarter of this year […]
German car makers BMW and Daimler-Mercedes might suffer collateral damage in Trump’s trade war with China. With the latter threatening to double-tax American cars imported in China, 270.000 cars would be targeted, of which some 115.000 built in the US […]
By 2025 20% of the energy demand in France can be cared for with hydrogen, while 18% of the vehicles can be propelled by hydrogen by then. Afhypac, an association of a hundred key players promoting hydrogen in France, is […]
The Antwerp Port company wants to manage its own railway network in the harbour, some 1.000 km, to “be more flexible” for shipping companies and double rail traffic in the near future. In May it will start to negotiate with […]
Sweden has introduced on Sunday an ecological charge or ‘carbon tax’ on all passenger flights with departure from a Swedish airport. “Goal is to minimize the ecological footprint of airplanes since the number of flights increased dramatically”, says Minister for […]
One in two Walloons set their cruise control higher than the speed limit of 120 kph on Belgian highways. One in five sets it at 125 kph, 15% at 130 kph and 2% above 140 kph, according to figures of […]
After ‘shocking’ the stock exchange world with his April Fool’s joke on ‘Tesla goes bankrupt’ on Monday, Elon Musk reassured the shareholders in an explanation of the quarterly figures that Tesla doesn’t need to find extra capital this year. “We […]
The way Low Emission Zones (LEZ) are organized at this moment isn’t very effective to reduce toxic emissions. That’s the conclusion of Nils Hooftman (MOBI-Brussels University VUB) after studying the research material on different European cities. In Low Emission Zones […]
Alain Visser is a Belgian who tries to reshape the automotive world. We heard him already about his Lynk & Co project with Volvo Cars Gent building them for Europe, the fact of using a car and not owning it. […]
Bus manufacturer Van Hool is going to build 58 hybrid articulated tram-buses for the Norwegian city of Trondheim. It is the biggest order ever for this kind of vehicles. Van Hool has signed an agreement with Nettbuss and Tide, two […]
Road-pricing for trucks in Belgium has no effect on the traffic jams. Last year the number of trucks even went up, increasing the periods and number of traffic jams. Road-pricing resulted in 676 million euro of revenues for the treasury, […]
In spite of the setbacks Tesla is facing these days, its founder Elon Musk apparently didn’t lose his sense of humor. On April 1st he tweeted: “Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last-ditch mass sale of Easter Eggs, […]
The long rumoured merger between BMW’s DriveNow car sharing service and Daimler’s Car2Go is a fact. But it even goes further. On Wednesday both German premium car makers signed an agreement to set up a 50/50 joint venture to merge […]
Most Flemish employers (83%) consider mobility the major drawback to run a business in the city. This is the conclusion of an inquiry by Voka, the Flemish network of businesses, in which more than 700 employers participated. Obstacles Other obstacles […]
Waymo, a daughter company of Google-mother Alphabet, will develop a fully autonomous car together with Jaguar. In 2020 the 20.000 electrically driven i-Paces have to be on the road as driver-less taxis. In New York, Waymo CEO John Krafcik presented […]
Taxi drivers have blocked the entire Brussels inner city on Tuesday, as they promised. They oppose against the so-called ‘taxi plan’ that has been approved by the Brussels government. Now some politicians want to withdraw their support for the plan. […]
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