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For the upcoming issue of Bright I visited local boys Rebbl in Aduard. They turn everything from Volkswagen Beetles, Volvo wagons and Jaguars into electric cars. In the Labrats item in the next Bright magazine you can read about their … Continue reading
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Ford invited Bright for an exclusive preview of the Ford B-Max concept. So cameramen Ronnie Zeemering, Maurits van der Boon, photographer Wendy Eggen and me went to a photostudio in Düsseldorf to meet the highly coveted secret. Turns out the … Continue reading
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Imagine -27º Celcius, on 30 centimeters of ice, in a convertible car on skinny spiked tires, hands clamped on the wheel. Your breath fogging up your helmet. 19 other cars around you and your foot hovering over the gaspedal. It … Continue reading
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Today I’ll take my first careful steps in motorsports for Bright Magazine. Mazda has invited journalists from Europe and Australia to take part in an Ice Race in Sweden. 20 teams of 6 drivers each will be competing against each … Continue reading
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Yesterday I drove to Düsseldorf for a sneak peek at a car Ford will be showing to the general public at the Geneva Motor Show. I can’t tell you anything about the car for another 10 days I’m afraid. So … Continue reading
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It’s a Bright month, this february. I wrote a piece on the new Porsche 918 RSR for Bright Magazine #38 that has just been released. I travelled to Sicily to get close up and personal with the Audi A6 for … Continue reading
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This weekend I travelled to Sicily, Italy with Ronnie Zeemering of Schwung Visuell fame. We were invited to testdrive the Audi A6 and shot a video about the bubble of technology that the Audi A6 has become. On the legendary … Continue reading
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The item about the Nissan Leaf is online at Bright.nl. It’s all in dutch, but that doesn’t make the video any less pretty, so have a look.
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This tuesday I drove the Nissan Leaf in Lisbon (Portugal). The first affordable, practical mainstream electric vehicle that will be available in the Netherlands. And I must say it was a blast. Silent like a BMW 7-series. Stuffed with gear … Continue reading
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Next tuesday I’ll be driving my second all electric car, but my first purpose built electric car. Where the Mini-E is a shoddy ex oilburner, the Nissan Leaf was built from the ground up as an electric vehicle. This makes … Continue reading
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The new issue of Bright magazine is out. It’s number 36 and there’s a profile on Apple (the company), a comparison between TomTom, Navigon and Google’s navigation offerings and I wrote about the Hot 100. Pick one up from your … Continue reading
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Two weeks ago I visited BMW in Munich. They had organised a series of workshops about the developments on electric cars. A lot of talk about the engineering side (batteries, carbon, crash safety) and a tiny little bit about the … Continue reading