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Jeff Dahn, head of the Canadian Battery Research Institute, has presented new results of his team’s work to ‘upgrade’ battery cells with additives making them last for 10 000 charging cycles. That would give a medium-range electric car’s battery a […]
SPDG, the family holding of Périer-D’Ieteren, further invests in the German scale-up Cleverciti, specialized in intelligent parking guidance systems for cities, shopping malls, or big parking operators. Cleverciti is active in some twenty countries worldwide, but Belgium is not yet […]
The Canadian contract manufacturer, Magna International, will build Fisker’s fully electric SUV Ocean, as the company announced last week. And it’s going to do that in Europe from 2022 on, in one of its production facilities, likely at the major […]
As expected, the Brussels government’s plans to introduce ‘an intelligent city toll’ from January 2022 on haven’t gained applause in the rest of Belgium as Flemish and Walloon commuters will have to pay twice to use their car in the […]
Shell has opened this week its first hydrogen refueling station (HRS) in its home country, along the A4 highway between The Hague and Amsterdam, near Hoofddorp. That brings the total number of public ‘private’ hydrogen stations in the Netherlands to […]
After showing the world in September its ‘nec plus ultra’ version of the Lucid Air Dream Edition offered at $169 000 (€142 974), the Arizona-based electric car start-up has put a price tag on the most down-to-earth version of the […]
Ten years after its failed introduction, the Dutch three-wheeler Carver returned in September last year in an electric version for the city. One year later, Carver introduces the full electric ‘Cargo’ with 500-liter cargo capacity, a perfect solution for last-mile […]
IDS-Q8 (International Diesel Service), the ‘truck’ branch of Kuwait Petroleum International, is the first to offer a low-carbon, 100% fossil-free alternative for diesel for trucks, based on used vegetable oil in Belgium. And this fuel can be used by classic […]
The French government is gearing up its support for EV sales by offering a premium of 1 000 euros for second-hand electric cars, without income limits as of 2021. So far, only new EVs are eligible for a premium of […]
Thanks to electric car sales taking off, but also by using the ‘regulatory flexibilities’ such as pooling, most carmakers are on track to meet the CO2 target of 95 g/km set by the EU by the end of the year. […]
Dutch fast-charging company, Fastned, has joined forces with Tesla to set up Europe’s biggest fast-charging station yet in Germany. ‘Ladepark Kreuz Hilden’ opened last week, at a strategic location near the intersection of the A3 and A46 highways in the […]
With the take-over of 42 dealerships from Alcopa’s daughters Fidenco in Belgium and Autopolis in Luxembourg, Dutch Van Mossel Automotive claims to become the biggest car dealer in the Benelux. Selling 31 car brands, Van Mossel is the market leader […]
Google/Alphabet daugther Waymo is starting in Phoenix to expand its ride-hailing service to the general public without a human driver behind the wheel. So far, there was always a driver to intervene when needed, except for a small group of […]
Students of the Technical University Eindhoven and the Fontys High School have presented on Thursday ‘Luca’, a two-seater electric city car nearly entirely built from recycled waste. The students – a team of 22 in total – worked a year […]
On Wednesday, the European Parliament pushed through its even higher climate ambitions than those of the Commission, by voting a 60% CO2 reduction by 2030 instead of 55%. Environmentalist parties claimed victory with 352 votes against 326. Belgium voted divided […]
The French automotive supplier, Faurecia, has opened on Tuesday in Bavans, Doubs (France), its ‘world R&D center’ to develop hydrogen storage systems for cars and trucks. CEO Patrick Koller announced that the company would build a new factory to mass-produce […]
Arval International, the leasing branch of French international banking group BNP Paribas, has unfolded on Tuesday its ‘strategic plans’ for the next five years. It is resolutely opting for a new business plan focusing on ‘sustainable mobility solutions’ and integrating […]
On this Wednesday, the seven first Hyundai XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks of a fleet of fifty have hit the road in Switzerland. The trucks are rented on a pay-per-use base, offering a flat fee per kilometer, including all expenses and […]
The Dutch government decided to advance the cut-off of the supply of EV premiums for private cars for next year. The slush fund for 2021, €27,9 million, and part of €250 million set aside up to 2025 are likely to […]
After weeks of tensions between parties, the French energy supplier Engie yields at last for Veolia’s bid, raised from 2,9 to 3,4 billion euros, on its 29,7% share of Suez. Both Suez and Veolia are world players in waste treatment […]
The NGO Transport and Environment makes a remarkable plea to make company cars all over Europe, which account for six in ten new cars sold, up to 30% electric by 2025, and 100% by 2030. “Now,” says T&E, “EU taxpayers […]
Scientists of the German Fraunhofer IWS institute have found a way to replace the gold to coat bipolar plates in fuel cells by a thin layer of carbon. The technique, developed in a joint project with German carmaker Daimler and […]
Dutch business drivers fear the lease car they got from their employer could be the last one, due to the paradigm shift the corona pandemic caused. In its current form, the lease car is to disappear, their organization, Vereniging Zakelijke […]
Volvo Cars has started in Ghent the commercial production of the long-awaited fully electric XC40 Recharge P8. This year’s production is already sold out, and the first of these cars will be delivered to clients in Europe starting this month. […]
Dutch oil and gas multinational Shell is going to cut 7 to 9 000 jobs, merely 8 to 10% of its 83 000 worldwide workforces, to save 2,5 billion dollars by 2022. It comes on top of lowering the distribution […]
It looks like the deal between General Motors and electric-hydrogen truck start-up Nikola stalls and is under ‘revision’ again. It should have been signed on Wednesday, but GM confirmed it’s not yet ‘concluded’. Meanwhile, Nikola pushed back the 3 December […]
Swedish co-founder and CEO of music streaming service Spotify, Daniel Ek, is stepping into the capital of also Swedish startup battery manufacturer Northvolt. Ek just told a few days ago he wanted to invest one billion of his own money […]
Uber is interested in buying the ride-hailing service Free Now from German carmakers Daimler AG and BMW Group, part of the larger merged mobility platform Your Now. As the corona crisis thwarted the attempt to attract external investors, the Germans […]
Claiming organization MKB Claim is starting a class action for some 3 000 transport companies, claiming from Dutch truck manufacturer DAF €410 million damages due to illegal price agreements of the so-called ‘truck cartel’ active between 1997 and 2011. Five […]
As expected, the French government has announced the premiums for an electric car for private use with a list price below €45 000 to drop. From €7 000 this year to €6 000 in 2021, and further to €5 000 […]
The Belgian group John Cockerill is going to invest via its Energy division some $100 million in France to have, among others, a factory up and running in Alsace to produce 5 MW electrolyzers for ‘green’ hydrogen. John Cockerill, which […]
The electric Taycan has become in August of this year Porsche’s best-selling model, outclassing the ever-popular 911 and the Cayenne if you don’t add its figures with that of the Cayenne Coupe. This appears from European registration figures from JATO. […]
Lynk & Co, the Chinese-Swedish daughter of Geely that wants to be a radical new ‘mobility concept’ rather than a car manufacturer, is to present the end of this month its first full-electric ‘Zero Concept’ of a 4,85-meter crossover coupe. […]
Oil giant British Petroleum (BP) broke off talks with American fuel cell truck start-up Nikola on a network of hydrogen stations that both would develop together across North America in the next eight to ten years. According to the Wall […]
The European Commission is starting a ‘thorough investigation’ into the Belgian government’s plan to subsidize new gas power plants to compensate for the nuclear phase-out. Commissioner Margrethe Vestager isn’t convinced Belgium needs those gas power plants to prevent a blackout. […]
