The population and the economy in the Metropolitan region of Rotterdam and The Hague (MRDH) are on the rise. There are more and more train and subway passengers and the number of cars and trucks is...
Germany is split on the subject of electromobility. On the one hand, “green scientists” are in a hurry to make the transition from combustion to electric motors. This is the only way to...
The young Dutch car company Lightyear is planning the production of its first car and has announced its strategy to scale up. Lightyear will outsource the production and focus on further developing...
While hydrogen production is expensive, it can contribute to emission-free mobility. A prerequisite, however, is that the electricity needed for its production and for the transport of this fuel to...
While politicians, the car industry and motorists in The Netherlands and Germany are arguing about driving bans in the major cities, the British university city of Oxford is setting a good example....
Australian and German researchers have applied for a patent for a new type of lithium-sulfur battery that is much lighter, cleaner and more powerful than the currently standard lithium-ion batteries...
Sensors are now part of the basic equipment of every modern car. Cameras, ultrasound, radar, infrared and the like already exist. But to really equip cars for autonomous driving, more is needed,...
Between 2001 and 2017, the number of road fatalities in Europe fell by 57.5%. The European average is 49 victims per one million inhabitants. This means that The Netherlands will have set a road...
It’s simple on paper. Just make sure that only emission-free vehicles are allowed to deliver goods in cities and then you’re well on your way to achieving your climate targets. However,...
A consortium of SMEs from the Dutch province of Limburg and companies at Brightlands Chemelot Campus is developing an unbreakable lightweight road bike, which is made one-by-one, entirely to the...
Toogethr, a fast-growing Utrecht start-up that offers smart technology on the commercial market for carpooling and parking, aims to spread its wings to the rest of Europe with an investment from...
The Maxeon solar panel technology by Sunpower will provide the solar power for Lightyear, the Helmond, Netherlands based start-up that builds a solar-powered electric car. The Lightyear One, of...
Increasingly more people are switching to electric mobility or are thinking about doing just that within the next few years. More and more public transport buses also run on electricity. Last week,...
Major public transport strikes in France have been bringing the country to a standstill for weeks now. Hundreds of thousands of French people have seen their Christmas holiday plans fall apart....
When it comes to the sport of cycling, every single ounce counts. That can, however, be at the expense of quality. The Viennese start-up Tubolito has designed an inner tube for bicycles that is both...
The Eloop e-car-sharing system not only enables emission-free mobility, but its cars also measure the local environmental impact. This is how the founders of this start-up from Vienna want to make...
A Danish passenger car was the first in the world to drive 80 kilometres on a mixture of biofuel from seaweed. Wageningen Food & Biobased Research produced the biobutanol from seaweed sugars....
”Your sneak preview of the future” is the slogan of Innovation Origins, and that’s just what we will highlight with our Start-up of the Week column. Over the past few days, five start-ups of the day...
After 150,000 fully electric kilometres – almost four times around the earth – DAF CF Electric is ready for the next phase: selling it in limited numbers. The e-truck was named Green...
When your friends in the pub get really excited about “those annoying lithium batteries”, the objections of electric car enthusiasts about recycling are often quickly brushed aside. The...
Zeeland, on the Dutch North Sea coast, is not the first province you think of when it comes to innovation. All the more reason for Innovation Origins to adjust that image. In six episodes we show a...
Cars are still all over the place. And we spend way too much time in traffic jams. For years we have been hearing that self-driving cars and buses are coming. But before that happens, those...
The first forty SeaBubbles have been ordered and are in production in Asia. They will be ready within a few months. That’s what Minze Walvius tells us, representative of the French start-up...
On the drawing boards, it already existed in several versions, but now there is the first prototype: BigRep, Berlin’s world player in the field of assitive Manufacturing, unveiled its first...
This is the third article in a series about measures that Poland is taking against environmental pollution and global warming. Parts 1 and 2 appeared on the 29th and 30th of November. Poland is not...
