Germany has been conducting trials for a few years now on trucks with what is known as a pantograph mounted on the roof. There are three stretches of highway where the trucks can recharge their batteries via overhead power lines.…
Although we in the Netherlands seem to be leaping from one lockdown to the next, there have been plenty of hopeful innovations surrounding corona over the past year. Innovation Origins looks back on the most notable developments and peers ahead…
What a year. The two big “Cs” (corona and the chip crisis) dominated nearly everything and an end to the automotive industry crisis is not in sight. Recently, the major German daily newspaper “Die Welt” reported, citing the CAR Institute…
His mother always called him “a slugger.” At thirteen, he was urged to change schools, and he sees himself as a street fighter rather than a bookworm. “What is written is from yesterday or even older,” he says. So how…
Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau, special envoy for Techleap, is passionately committed to a better start-up ecosystem in the Netherlands. One thing he knows for sure is that if the Netherlands wants to progress, entrepreneurship has to take a much more prominent…
Christmas is the time of conviviality and enjoying time together. But it is also a time of introspection and reflection on the well-being of the world. Not everyone has it so good. Fortunately there are plenty of people who like…
Will the Delta variant make it through the New Year? Since the advance of Omicron, this seems extremely unlikely. In the run-up to Christmas, Europe is, for the second year in a row, the scene of the highest infection rates…
The current life expectancy of people in the European Union hovers around eighty. So it stands to reason that after the age of sixty, you would think that you still have plenty of time to build up your own business.…
Christmas is the time of conviviality and enjoying time together. But it is also a time of introspection and reflection on the well-being of the world. Not everyone has it so good. Fortunately there are plenty of people who like…
We are all familiar with the noise barriers along freeways and railroad tracks. The ugly, ungainly concrete or glass screens are sorely needed for reducing the noise of vehicles racing past. These days, we also regularly use so-called absorbent road…