Fieten Olie has taken over the Tank & Scheur filling station on Deventerweg in Laren, Gelderland. The acquisition brings Fieten Olie to a network of 89 filling stations in the Netherlands.
Divers’ unmanned BP Express filling station on the Europabaan in Woerden will get a hydrogen filling point. The location should soon allow both cars and trucks to fill up with hydrogen.
Lukoil, which was acquired by US investment company Carlyle at the end of January, is again investing in expanding its number of filling station locations. In Hulshout, Flanders, some 30 kilometres south-east of Antwerp, it has taken over ‘La Corbeille’ filling station, known as ‘the most beautiful filling station in Belgium’.
Milence, the Netherlands-based joint venture of Daimler Truck, Traton Group and Volvo Group, has opened a new charging hub for electric trucks in Ghent. With this, they aim to support electric truck traffic between several Western European countries.
EG Group has reached an agreement to sell its business in France to EG On The Move. This is the latest step in the retailer’s planned withdrawal from the French market. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
The Gulf petrol station on the A2 motorway near Eijsden in Limburg is changing formula. From 18 May, the location will continue under the Shell flag.
There is broad political opposition to a connection ban for small consumers due to grid congestion. This reports industry organisation Bovag after an emergency debate of the Gelderland Provincial Council. According to the organisation, several parties spoke out against such a measure because of the possible social consequences.
The court of Zeeland-West Brabant has ruled that the permit for the relocation and expansion of the Fastned charging station at service station Honswijck along the A1 motorway may remain in place. The court noted that there was initially an error in the substantiation, but finds that the minister has now sufficiently rectified it.
In the Randstad, diesel cars have almost disappeared from the streetscape. In municipalities like Ridderkerk, Leidschendam-Voorburg and Haarlemmermeer, at most 4 per cent of passenger cars are still diesel. This contrasts sharply with the situation in Friesland and Drenthe: these are still true ‘diesel strongholds’.