Recently youth organization TeamAlert started the campaign “Rij Ballonvrij” again. The aim of this campaign is to combat the use of laughing gas behind the wheel among young people. The use of nitrous oxide in traffic is becoming increasingly common in the Netherlands. Last year, the police registered nearly three thousand traffic incidents involving laughing gas, while

Amsterdam taxi company Travel Electric has filed for bankruptcy. According to the company, which only uses electric taxis and focuses on rides for other companies such as ING, ABN AMRO, Heineken and also dozens of hotels, the taxi market in Amsterdam is not recovering for the time being now that the corona infections are rising strongly again.

Flemish Minister of Mobility and Public Works Lydia Peeters today emphasized in the Mobility Committee of the Flemish Parliament the ambition to phase out fossil fuel cars by 2029. “Given the Belgian division of competences, we ask our federal colleagues to phase out passenger cars and vans with fossil combustion engines”,