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2024: A year of record passenger car production

21/01/2025

Despite a number of challenges, domestic car manufacturers managed to increase production by 3.9% year-on-year in 2024, reaching a historical high of 1,452,881 passenger cars produced. Production of trucks also performed well, with 1,522 (+6.3%), motorcycles (+20.4%) and trailers over 3.5 t, with a total of 2,020 completed trailers and semi-trailers (+11.9%). On the other hand, the bus categories (4,489 -14.5%) and small trailers up to 3.5 t (15,842 -6.4%) recorded a decline in production. Electric vehicles accounted for 7.8% of the total annual production of domestic manufacturers. 113,232 pure battery and 37,930 plug-in hybrid passenger vehicles and 245 pure battery buses rolled off the lines of domestic manufacturers in 2024. Howe...

08/01/2025

We can do it. We have huge credit in the US

At the beginning is silicon carbide powder, at the end is a small component, without which the world cannot do today. Thanks to an investment of up to two billion dollars, this entire process should get underway in the foothills of the Beskydy Mountains, and...

23/12/2024

Foreign direct investment. We are still ahead of Poland

Although Taiwan’s TSMC did not invest in the Czech Republic, but in Dresden, Germany, a number of subcontractors could settle here. Jan Michal, the CEO of CzechInvest, believes this and in an interview explains what the agency is doing for this. W...

19/12/2024

Vehicle production continues to slow down at the end of the year

From the beginning of the year to the end of November, a total of 1,365,816 passenger vehicles were produced on the lines of domestic vehicle manufacturers, i.e. 5% more than in the same cumulative period of the previous year. However, compared to the beginning of the year, the pace ...

10/12/2024

Read the December issue of Czech Car Industry magazine

Imagine such an absurd thing: that a chip intervened in a fight between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Alva Edison at the end of the 19th century. The merciless tug-of-war between former colleagues over whether the world should use alternating or direct current might not have happened at all. ...