Dieselgate has struck again. The German prosecution has ordered car manufacturer Volkswagen to pay a record 1 billion euro fine for the dieselgate fraud. VW has accepted to pay the fine. The German car industry is thoroughly shaken this week. […]
The first real Tesla competitor comes from a somewhat unexpected car manufacturer: Jaguar launches its I-Pace, a big and strikingly good-looking fully electric cross-over to compete with the Tesla Model S and X, which have been monopolizing this market segment […]
In ten years the petrol/diesel proportion in Belgium’s car market has been inverted, helped by increasing fuel taxes and diesel’s bad press. The ‘dirty fuel’, however, still makes sense for drivers doing more than 30.000 km a year. It all […]
From 2019 onward the Dutch buyer of an electric car costing more than 50.000 euro will have to pay 22% additional taxes instead of 4% now. Many potential electric buyers hesitate. From the 1st of January 2019 the additional taxes, […]
American car manufacturer Tesla is having hard times. After the production problems with the Model 3 and pressure from shareholders, CEO Elon Musk announced that 9% of the employees will have to leave the company. The passing years Tesla has grown […]
Is hydrogen (H2) the miracle molecule that will allow humanity to succeed in its ecological transition or just a fata morgana? Pro and contra protagonists are facing each other with knives drawn. French newspaper Le Monde draws up the balance […]
The Brussels mobility problem keeps foreign investors away from Belgium’s capital. That is what consultancy agency Ernst & Young (EY) says in its annual survey of investment in our country. The foreign investments in Belgium are reaching record levels, but […]
The German government has ordered Daimler to proceed as quickly as possible to the recall of 774.000 Mercedes cars possibly having emissions-cheating software under the bonnet. The models concerned are the Vito van and some of the models C and […]
President Donald Trump repeating his threat after leaving the G7 Summit in Canada, to tax car import by 25%, might jeopardize more than 150.000 jobs in America, experts in the US say. One third of all car import is done […]
The Belgian government confirmed that it will use the WLTP data to base the company car tax system in 2021. Until then, expenses deduction and benefits (ATN/VAA) will be calculated with NEDC 2.0 data. Ever since the Worldwide Harmonized Light […]
Belgium’s Mobility Minister, François Bellot (MR), is fed up by the Regions’ inaction toward a better mobility. He thinks the country’s institutional system prevents any global vision to be followed by acts. Called back to a post of Minister by […]
It’s not easy to keep the American electric car manufacturer out of the spotlights, lately with not so good news. At the recent shareholders’ meeting Tesla founder Elon Musk survived a motion of (dis)trust and can stay on as CEO. […]
Uber jumps on the electric bike-sharing market in Germany. Uber’s top executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, announced it on Wednesday at a conference in Berlin. Uber will introduce its electric bike-sharing program this summer in Berlin. It will then be extended to […]
Five months is too short to draw conclusions, but the evolution of the Belgian car market since the beginning of the year can be significant for things to come. First of all, and against all expectations, the Belgian car market […]
ACEA, the umbrella federation of European car manufacturers, asks the EU for a ‘reality check’ on the eve of the electric car. It’s not enough that manufactures are offering electric cars, the consumers must be financially able and willing to […]
“Electrification of the car market will cost the German car industry 75.000 jobs by 2030”, a study from the research organization Frauenhofer Institute, ordered by metal union IG Metal, shows. The study starts from the assumption that the car market […]
Volvo Cars Gent is planning to build a battery assembly factory near its car assembly plant to assemble battery cells into battery packs for its future electric models. The Swedish car manufacturer Volvo (daughter of Chinese Geely) plans to build […]
From the 1st of September 2018 Volvo Cars Gent’s plant manager, Eric Van Landeghem, will be succeeded by Stefan Fesser, a German coming from PSA Group. The Volvo Cars Gent plant is the only European factory of the Volvo brand […]
Belgian material group Umicore will set up its new battery material plant – offering 400 jobs – in Nysa (Poland) and not on the former Opel site in Anwerp, as the city government hoped before. Lower labour costs, availability of […]
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced in Istanbul that “it’s over and out for Uber or Muber or whatever it is called (…)”. With this statement Erdogan gives in to the the 17.400 drivers of the official yellow taxis […]
The American start-up Bird started to offer its shared electric scooters for rent not even a year ago and it is already valued at more than one billion dollars. Bird uses the pick-up/drop-off anywhere method, causing authorities to take action. […]
Dutch electricity production and distribution company Alliander sells its charging station network daughter Allego to French investor Meridiam, specialized in sustainable infrastructure projects, like wind mill and solar farms among others. Allego manages some 8.000 charging points in six European […]
After having listened to Environment Minister Fremault’s proposition, the Brussels Government will launch a consultation designed to discuss “the ban of diesel vehicles by 2030 at the latest”. Some Ministers are afraid that things are going too fast. Fremault’s initiative […]
French car maker groups Renault and PSA (Citroën-Peugeot) kept prices of their spare parts since the year 2006 artificially high, with an average of 15% but sometimes up to more than double the real value. They used the same smart […]
The International Energy Agency’s latest report shows that more than one million electric cars (EVs and PHEVs) were sold last year, representing a growth of 57%. More than half of them were sold in China. Increasing steadily With 1,1 million […]
Stéphane Sertang is the CEO of Ginion Group, an important BMW/Mini and Ferrari car dealer in the Belgian landscape but also the importer of Rolls-Royce and McLaren among other things. He talks about the huge challenges car dealers face. Stéphane […]
According to Chinese business newspaper,Digitimes, in Taipei (Taiwan), the Walloon government agrees to invest 150 million dollar in Chinese electric car maker Thunder Power if they decide to choose the former Caterpillar site in Gosselies for their European development center […]
Shell opened its first LNG filling station for trucks in Herstal, near Liège, on Monday. The company wants to open three more LNG stations in Belgium in the coming months. LNG stands for Liquefied Natural Gas and is regarded as […]
German government has asked Daimler on Monday to clarify the suspicion of the Federal Motor Transport Authority (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt, KBA) that emissions-cheating software has been used to mask the real NOx emission of its Mercedes Vito, equipped with… a Renault diesel […]
Introducing a general kilometre tax in Flanders would make driving a car 12 to 27% more expensive, but could be compensated by a lower personal income tax. This could generate 4,3 billion euro to finance a ‘green tax shift’. These […]
As from this year, all the lighting poles on the motorways in Flanders will be converted into modern LED lighting. They provide better visibility and road safety. In addition, an annual saving of 4 million euro in energy costs and […]
Technologically speaking it would be perfectly possible to have a self-driving van to deliver packages into the city, as was shown during a three-day test in the most important shopping street (Bruul) in Mechelen (Belgium). The practical organization, however, is […]
If the Brussels government is to follow the recommendations of its task force on new vehicle taxation, even Euro 6 diesel cars could be taxed six times more than its petrol equivalent. On top of that could come – within […]
Belgian federal Mobility Minister, François Bellot (MR), has decided that only full electric vehicles and not the hybrids are allowed to park at charging stations. Hybrids aren’t because – even when running out of electricity – they can rely on […]
Eddy Haesendonck (47) is the new president and CEO of BMW Group Belux. He replaces Peter Henrich who led the company since the 1st of January 2017. It was a bit of a surprise when the news fell last week […]
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