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Brussels Airport just added 700 EV chargers and they don’t have idle fees

Baua Electric

By Jean Housen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, [link] Brussels Airport in Belgium now has 750 EV chargers, and it wants you to leave your EV plugged in when you go on holiday. If the driver uses Interparking’s Pcard+ pass, there isn’t a connection fee.

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2nd annual Bosch analysis of ADAS finds emergency braking and lane assist systems on the rise

Green Car Congress

By way of comparison, the evaluation for 2013 revealed that the two assistance systems featured in only one in ten new cars. By way of comparison, the evaluation for 2013 revealed that the two assistance systems featured in only one in ten new cars. Automatic emergency braking systems are even more common in Belgium than in Germany.

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Charged and umlaut continue partnership on 2021 EV Charging Infrastructure Benchmark

Charged EVs

The goal was to bring you a comparison of the charging industry’s best efforts: a search for the best user experience currently available. Ionity secured victory among the CPOs in Austria, Switzerland and Belgium. Our Best in Test seal isn’t necessarily awarded to the vehicle, but to the measure of the OEM’s most connected features.

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New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

Green Car Congress

Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. That number is in my opinion conservative, and consistent with a slight reduction in the rate of peat conversion. Chris Malins.

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Figuring Out Semiconductor Manufacturing's Climate Footprint

Cars That Think

Lizzie Boakes is a life cycle analyst in the Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems Program at IMEC , the Belgium-based nanotech research organization. We have a public version, which is a limited-- it has limited functionality in comparison to the program partner version. Welcome, Lizzie. Lizzie Boakes: Hello.

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