On Wednesday, a command centre for automatic drone flights was opened in Antwerp. This took place in The Beacon, a product development hub where a group of aviation, service and health care organizations under the name Helicus Aero Initiative (HAI) […]
American Waymo is the first company in the world to have launched a paid taxi service with autonomous cars. On Wednesday, the first passengers stepped into a robot taxi in Phoenix (Arizona, US). Although the taxis are self-driving, there is […]
Tesla announced on Wednesday it will start delivering its Model 3 in Europe in February 2019. Delivery will be done on first come, first served base: those who paid a 1.000 euro deposit in March 2016, will get it first […]
Wearing airbag vests could prevent 10% of road deaths and many more serious injuries among motorcyclists. The French road safety organization, Sécurité Routière, is launching a campaign in this Advent to raise awareness of these airbags for motorcycles. Airbag jacket […]
French car maker, Renault, is starting a free-floating car sharing service with 200 electric Zoe cars in Amsterdam by January 2019. If the new service – a name has to be chosen yet – is successful, Renault will extend its […]
Volkswagen plans to sell its last cars with combustion engines – petrol or diesel – by 2040, VW’s strategic director, Michael Jost, has told the newspaper Handelsblatt. “The last car to be launched on a traditional platform will be in […]
Thirty new routes for super-trucks or ecocombis that connect to Flemish motorways have just been approved. That reports the Agency for Roads and Traffic (AWV). “Only the safest routes haven been selected”, the Flemish authorities say. Short history In mid-2014, […]
After painful discussions that went on deep into the night on Monday, the Transport Ministers of the EU member states have reached a compromise in the reform of road transport and to tackle social dumping. Eight member states rejected in […]
If they get the green light from competition authorities, Dutch car retailer group, Van Mossel Automotive Group, is taking over 22 dealerships from GMAN (Antwerp region) and Bruyninx (Limburg) from the Alcopa Group (Moorkens). Alcopa itself will further focus on […]
Belgian Federation of Fuel Traders (Brafco) asks the Belgian federal government to be consistent in its policy to lower taxes on ‘greener’ fuels like ‘blue diesel’, as it already did for the clean natural gas variants, CNG and LNG. “The […]
American KAR Auction Services swallows its Belgian branch companion, CarsOnTheWeb, that had become one of Europe’s largest online selling platforms of second-hand cars in the last 14 years. A bite that costs KAR initially 91 million euro and that can […]
‘Charging station clingers’, they are the new plague of electric drivers: cars that occupy a charging station for hours while their batteries are already charged. This frustrates other drivers with a nearly empty battery who can’t find a charging station […]
According to the Dutch financial newspaper, Financieel Dagblad, three sources confirm that French tyre manufacturer, Michelin, has its eye on TomTom’s Telematic branch that was put up for sale since September. Also Japanese tyre manufacturer, Bridgestone, and two investment funds […]
By 2023, Brussels will be equipped with a dedicated cycling path separated from cars that will follow the inner ring road. Eight zones have been marked out, for which the Region already has the construction permits. This should make cycling […]
“By 2050, Europe has to be 100% carbon-neutral”, meaning emitting no greenhouse gases at all or catching and storing what’s left, the EU Commission states in its ‘Clean Planet for All’ document, published on Wednesday. The plan of Commissioner for […]
Car manufacturer, PSA Group, is restructuring its dealer network. In Belgium that can lead to the disappearance of two thirds of all dealerships of Peugeot and Citroën. The consequences for Opel dealerships are not known yet. The PSA Group’s policy […]
The biggest American car manufacturer has announced it wants to save 6 billion dollar to be more competitive. In order to do that it has to close 7 factories and fire approximately 15% of its workforce. Yesterday already there were […]
Bank and insurance company, KBC, is starting with the sales of train tickets via its own mobile app. With the app, travellers can also consult the timetable of trains. Next year KBC wants to add extra mobility options, like offering […]
According to the German court in Augsburg, Volkswagen has to pay back the original purchase price of a VW Golf from 2012. The court judged that Volkswagen had acted immorally by using illegal emissions-cheating software. By doing so, the car […]
Today the French minister of Transport, Elisabeth Borne, launches the government’s legislation project on the future orientation of mobility (LOM). It wants to get better air quality, integrate new technologies and plan new infrastructures. It will be presented to the […]
If it wants to ‘feed’ 4 million electric cars by 2028 as the government envisions, France will need 7% extra capacity in producing electricity for an estimate of 7 million charging points. Crucial is to go for smart charging solutions […]
Now that the detention of Carlos Ghosn in a Japanese jail has been confirmed, it seems that surely the Japanese parts of the Alliance (Nissan and Mitsubishi) want to get rid of him as soon as possible. The question from […]
Swedish headquarters of Volvo have declared that the new to launch products of Chinese sister brand, Lynk & Co, will not be produced in the Volvo Ghent factory as was earlier announced. It is not entirely clear if this decision […]
Transport companies more and more prefer to drive in the evening and at night to avoid traffic jams. Transport and Logistics the Netherlands (TLN) wants to investigate how this could be realized. Last year, daily traffic congestion costed the Dutch […]
La Tribune – 22 Nov. 2018 Page 23 Depuis 2013, l’association brestoise Eco Solar Breizh fait rouler aux quatre coins du monde, Heol, son véhicule solaire de compétition. Avec la création d’Hx², la voiture solaire destinée à un usage urbain […]
Belgian people are largely against the use of palm oil in car fuels, but 87% are ignorant of the fact that the diesel they are buying at the pump actually contains palm oil. The same goes for most Europeans (82%), […]
After the news broke on Monday that Carlos Ghosn was arrested the moment he stepped out of his private jet in Tokyo, a ‘shock wave’ went through Japan, France and the entire automotive world. Ghosn was still under custody on […]
In the near future, cars will no longer be equipped with driving mirrors. Federal Minister of Mobility, François Bellot (MR), is planning to drop this section in the new traffic regulations. Tools Until now, those mirrors were obligatory in the […]
After many years of growth, sales of vans in Belgium seems to slow down and stagnate. According to the registration figures of car federation Febiac, 66.986 vans were sold between January and October, hardly 1% more than during the first […]
Be-Mobile, a branch of Belgian telecom operator Proximus that specializes in building technology platforms for connected cars, traffic info and management and smart mobility, will acquire its French sector partner Mediamobile. The Ghent company announced this on Sunday. In this […]
The city of Amsterdam consists for one quarter of water and it’s a pity that today those water ways are not fully used yet. That’s why the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) is analyzing the possible use of […]
Illya Cadivel, engineer from the Reunion Island living in Luxembourg, is developing a new lightweight electric bus that uses a compressed air generator to increase range. The first prototype should be ready by the end of the year and its […]
For the first time in five years, the German economy recedes with 0,2% in the third quarter of 2018. This is mainly due to a decline in export, says Destatis, Germany’s statistics bureau. Especially the car industry noted a clear […]
On Wednesday French government confirmed taking firm stand on the fuel tax and boosting the aids to help citizen to cope with it. The energy check will be extended, the scrapping scheme bonus will be doubled, a 20 euro transport […]
You thought modern cars aren’t rusting anymore? Think again. A recent Swedish study indicates that rust is again a nuisance in certain new cars, especially Asian ones and some European brands. For a long time rust was one of the […]
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