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How often you fill up, when your car is due for maintenance and even which windshield repair company your insurer reimburses: presently all of this information will be available in a single practical app. This is the result of a close collaboration between the KdG University of Applied Sciences and Arts (AUHA) and spin-off LinkedCar of entrepreneur Mario Schraepen.

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What prompted the development of the app?

LinkedCar collects all info about your vehicle and makes the life of car users easier. Right now, if you need a piece of information concerning your vehicle, you look it up: in your car’s paperwork, your insurance contract or the app of your car dealer. Users are not always sure where to find specific information.

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What is the solution you developed?

Vehicles such as cars and e-bikes already generate a host of information. Manufacturers collect everything, even address lists from your smartphone.

» The Expertise Centre Sustainable Mobility of Karel de Grote university college is developing a unique algorithm to decipher this vehicle data and make it accessible to users. This means LinkedCar receives a wealth of real-time information and up-to-date vehicle data. The app not only collects all vehicle-related data but also that of different stakeholders Just think of your insurer, the manufacturer or the leasing company. This way you are always up to date on the conditions imposed by your insurer or leasing company.

» The app gives you control of your own data: you choose with whom you share all this information. In exchange you get a string of advantages, such as cheaper insurance or a fuel discount.

How do you see the future of the app?

The app will become available to the public in the second quarter of 2023. At the moment the app is being fine-tuned in conjunction with companies and users in Australia In Belgium ten companies have so far jumped on the bandwagon: from lease companies and insurers to manufacturers and suppliers of charging stations.

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