The Responsible Young Drivers (RYD) launched special ‘smartphone glasses’ on Wednesday. This new application simulates the dangers of distraction due to the use of the mobile phone while driving a car or a bicycle. The smartphone glasses were developed in […]
NIO, the young Chinese start-up specialized in electric cars, has asked to be listed on Wall Street where it intends to raise 1,8 billion dollars and aims to compete with Tesla. After launching its first car last year in China, […]
The Munich-based mobility provider, Sono Motors, has announced a next test tour of its Sion ‘solar’ electric car throughout 18 cities in Germany and the Netherlands, starting the 1st of September in Germany and the 7th in the Netherlands. After […]
The artificial island project for storm protection in front of the coast of Knokke-Heist (Belgium) has been put on hold. Federal Secretary to the North Sea, Philippe De Backer, says it doesn’t meet with the marine space development plan. Flemish […]
In a survey Flemish mobility club VAB asked 2.000 Flemish consumers about their interest in electric cars. This is still very low and the reason is their distrust of the Flemish government: they fear that it might change the present […]
GPS trackers are a common tool for companies with large car parks. Recently the system demonstrated other possibilities: monitoring the misuse of a car by a third party. GPS trackers are mainly used by companies with cars/lorries/trucks which are always […]
In comparison with 4 years ago the second-hand market in Belgium has risen 17% in 2017. The total value of sold second-hand cars was for the first time more than 2 billion euro in Belgium in 2017. At the same […]
Soon there will be a new car brand on the market: Polestar. CEO Thomas Ingenlath has high hopes for the brand: “We don’t want to kill Tesla, our first aim is to expand the until now poor choice of electric […]
Since last year, transport companies can call on subsidies from the Flemish government to make their new trucks safer and more ecological. Only a quarter of the 36 million euro subsidy budget was applied for last year. Part of this […]
Several manufacturers meet delivery problems at the moment, not because there’s a lack of cars but because the right homologation papers are missing. Last week we already reported about delivery problems for Mercedes in the Benelux, today it becomes clear […]
Daimler CEO, Dieter Zetsche, has announced that Daimler daughter, Smart, will go full electric and sell electrically driven cars from 2020 onward. A brave decision for a manufacturer who hasn’t made money since 20 years. It means that only the […]
Alternatives to traditional taxi services are emerging like mushrooms in these Uber times. The Antwerp one-man business, Driverbuddy, is taking a different approach. They drive your car instead of their own, as a personal chauffeur, and can also take on […]
In the whole of the Benelux numerous Mercedes buyers are waiting for their Mercedes to be finally delivered. The cars are there, the right homologation papers aren’t. On the first of September, last year the new European emission rules were […]
According to the American Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), driver assistance systems aren’t always right. It advises drivers to keep their hands permanently on the steering wheel and stay alert. Electronic guardian angels, like lane keeping assist, automatic braking, […]
A study from car industry watcher, Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, reveals that some car companies earn a lot of money for each vehicle sold but others are losing some. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer is a professor at Duisburg-Essen University and a renowned car industry […]
BMW’s free-floating car sharing company, DriveNow, has recorded a loss of 3,25 million euro in 2017 in Belgium. According to its CEO, the government’s mobility plan and company cars are to blame. Back in 2015, BMW and Sixt launched a […]
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla, shook up the stock exchange on Tuesday twittering: “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured”. By doing that, Tesla wouldn’t be bound anymore to strict regulations about transparency, like making company […]
More than 30 diesel BMWs caught fire in South Korea because of problems with the anti-pollution system. After being called out by the country’s government, BMW apologized and will start a recall procedure. Over the January-July period, more than thirty […]
VLM Airlines is dropping nearly all destinations from Antwerp airport (Deurne), and just keeping the connections to London City and Zürich (Switzerland). Flights from mother company SHS Aviation to Aberdeen and Birmingham in the UK, Cologne-Bonn, Münich and Rostock in […]
Brussels City Council has recently given a positive opinion under conditions on the ring road widening to the company in charge of roadworks. Brussels mayor, Philippe Close, pleads for a dialog with the Region, while councilwoman, Marie Nagy, thinks the […]
Marc Grynberg, CEO of the Belgian technology group Umicore, world player in battery materials and recycling, launches the idea to offer 15 euro for trading in your written-off smartphone for recycling. He estimates precious metals like cobalt and lithium in […]
The last car of the compact A1 model has rolled off the production line at the Brussels Audi factory. Since 2010 Audi Brussels has built more than 909.000 pieces of the A1, which makes way for the first fully electric […]
The young Brussels company, Ahooga, produces the lightest collapsible electric bicycle on the market. This innovation, which is already sold in 10 countries, attracts clients from the USA and Asia and pushes the company to go worldwide. “This city (Brussels) […]
The Volkswagen Group will probably be forced to recall up to 124.000 hybrid and electric cars for using cadmium, a carcinogenic metal used in the batteries of the cars, as the company announced on Tuesday. Cadmium in battery An unidentified […]
Dutch electric charging station company, Fastned, is looking for another 30 million euro of capital to finance a rapid growth of its network. Fastned is one of the pioneers and – like Tesla – burning money faster than it can […]
The number of cars flashed on regional roads where recently a 80 km/hour speed limit is introduced, is doubled compared to a year before, as was announced on Tuesday. “More than 500.000 cars – 251.893 more than in July 2017 […]
According to international financial services and consultancy firm Deloitte and its ‘Future of Mobility’ study, the autonomous car and car sharing will shake mobility up towards cheaper means of transport. Government’s and people’s attitudes, however, will have to evolve first. […]
Shared mobility. Most people associate the term with left behind bicycles, failing municipal projects and confusion… but free-floating electric scooters seem to be an – even profitable – solution for big cities. Paris – with more than 5.000 electric scooters […]
The Brussels regional government is sending the elaborated new car tax proposals from its task force ‘back to sender’ to redo his homework and make ‘social corrections’ after fierce opposition within the majority, with the socialist party PS in front. […]
In addition to electrically powered cars, there are various brands that sell electrically powered motorcycles. But they don’t seem to attract a lot of bikers today. In the Netherlands, for the time being, this is a very small niche market […]
An entirely new, energy-positive city. That is the challenge Norwegian architects face in constructing Oslo Airport City, a city that will be powered entirely by renewable energy. The city will rise next to Oslo Airport, which is already considered to […]
Carlos Tavares, CEO of car manufacturer PSA, says in an interview in the French newspaper Les Echos he is “open to all proposals” for new partnerships with other car manufacturing groups, including Fiat Chrysler (FCA). Anything is possible When asked […]
Audi Belgium’s importer, D’Ieteren, launches a free ‘e-experience app’ to give traditional car drivers the taste for electric driving in the future. By comparing every drive made in your own car with what this would mean if you did the […]
The thread of extra import taxes for EU cars in the US is lifted for now. The escalation in the trade war between the EU and the US has stopped with a cease-fire between president Donald Trump and the president […]
Sergio Marchionne, former boss of Fiat-Chrysler and Ferrari, has died at the age of 66 in a hospital in Zürich, Switzerland. “Unfortunately, what we feared has come to pass. Sergio Marchionne, man and friend, is gone”, Johan Elkann, chairman of […]
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