How harmful is microrubber to humans?
Microplastics is literally on everyone’s lips. Every person eats, drinks and breathes up to five grams of microplastics per week – and therefore basically eats a credit card....
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Fraunhofer ISE was wrong: hydrogen cars are not cleaner than battery-driven electric vehicles and diesel cars are not even close
A new study on the positive sides of hydrogen and diesel was presented by the Fraunhofer ISE Institute on 13-7-2019 and this blog is my rebuttal to that. Here I refer to a recent publication in...
Quo Vadis, German car industry?
On average, cars will cost about 3,000 to 5,000 Euros more by the year 2025. That is at least what Audi boss Bram Schot explained on Dutch radio last weekend. As the reason for this increase, the...
Tomorrow is Good: a choice guide for autonomous cars?
A while ago, I attended a research presentation on autonomous cars by researchers at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (DHBW). I learned that there are different levels of autonomous...
Correcting misinformation about greenhouse gas emissions of electric vehicles: Auke Hoekstra’s response to Damien Ernst’s calculations
I show how in Europe, an electric vehicle becomes greener after 20 to 40 thousand kilometres of driving, not 700 thousand as a famous Belgian professor calculated on television recently. He has...
Tomorrow is Good: Nothing to Hide
You can hear many people say it when it comes to privacy: “I allow them to know everything, I have nothing to hide”. I’m waiting for a TV format where we’ll first screen the...
Volkswagen chooses Additive Industries for its 3D metal printed car parts
World’s largest car maker invests in fully automated metal additive manufacturing system for tooling Volkswagen and Additive Industries have entered into a long-term partnership to additively...
The future of the car in ten years’ time: something of everything
Air pollution, exhaust gas scandals, diesel driving bans, hardly a day goes by without “Germany’s dearest child”, the car, providing at least one news report. Recently, however,...
NXP solves problem of noisy phone calls in your car
No more noisy phone calls in your car. NXP introduces a new “echo cancellation noise reduction solution” (ECNR) that reduces the problem of noisy voice communications and provides...
Tomorrow is Good: Fountains from the Discounter shop
In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Mary Fiers, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer, and Tessie Hartjes, E52 tries to find out what the future will look like. All five...
Tramstraat, Kanaaldijk ‘pay’ for better air quality Vestdijk
Almost 70 “evaders” per hour on the ‘cut’ Vestdijk – Kanaalstraat The air quality on the Vestdijk has fallen below the health risk limit as a result of the traffic measures. Less traffic was also recorded on the Tongelresestraat and the...
Air Pollution in Eindhoven Growing: Extra Measures Needed
In order to combat air pollution in Eindhoven, more measures are needed in the short term. Following a judgment of the District Court of The Hague, State Secretary Sharon Dijksma (infrastructure and environment) started to draw up an air quality plan containing measures to...
Make way for the car, close Eindhoven center
All around the world, initiatives are arising to make cities smarter, more accessible and at the same time more sustainable. Eindhoven doesn’t seem to lead in this type of “Quality of Life” and that is the reason for E52 to dive into this topic in the run-up to the municipal...
Podcast: TU Eindhoven researchers discuss how to overcome the trials and tribulations of working from home.