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2024: A year of record passenger car production

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Vehicle production slows down at the end of the year

Between January and October, a total of 1,239,141 passenger cars rolled off the lines of domestic manufacturers, i.e. 6.6% more than in the same period last year. 127,222 vehicles produced so far have been electric, of which 95,657 are pure battery and 31,565 plug-in hybrids. In perc ...

CEE Automotive Supply Chain 2024: in Žilina about the changing world

Lower sales of new vehicles and geopolitical risks in the form of Chinese competition or upcoming events in the US are the topics that dominated this year’s CEE Automotive Supply Chain 2024 conference. Representatives of the automotive industry discuss ...

Artificial intelligence: the future is here and it has rules

In March of this year, the final form of the Artificial Intelligence Regulation (AI Act) was approved at the plenary session of the European Parliament, which should enter into force in 2026. The EU thereby sets the rules for models based on artificial intelligen ...

Amendment on autonomous vehicles: a step towards wider use of autonomous technologies on our roads

The Ministry of Transport, in cooperation with the Association of the Automotive Industry and the Association of Automobile Importers, has prepared an amendment to the laws that will allo ...

One million vehicles produced again in September this year, but with a significantly higher lead than last year

In the first three quarters of this year, domestic automotive companies produced a total of 1,097,257 passenger vehicles, i.e. 7.8% more vehicles than in the same period last year. The one million vehicle production mark was broken again in September, but th ...

Minister Kupka and the Automotive Industry Association join forces for a realistic and fundamental change in CO2 emission limits for cars and vans

Transport Minister Martin Kupka and the Association of the Automotive Industry (AutoSAP) are working together to adjust the current CO2 emission limits for cars and vans. It shows that Europe needs a systematic change towards decarbonisation and needs to respond more flexibly to the ...

Vehicle production in the Czech Republic is growing despite a slight cooling in the main European markets

Since the beginning of the year, 973,560 vehicles have been completed on the lines of domestic passenger car manufacturers, which is 5.5% more than in the same period last year. Significant growth was recorded in the motorcycle category, where production grew by more than 60% to a to ...

Autumn issue of the Český autoprůmysl magazine

If a quarterly journal wants to maintain a certain degree of relevance in the three-month interval, it must contain topics that are timeless or forward-looking. I dare say that in ...

German locomotive has lost steam

Germany is often described as the “economic locomotive of Europe”. A country with huge industrial potential, strong research, a highly skilled and well-paid workforce, a world export power. It is also the Czech Republic’s primary part ...

From hybrids to batteries. Kolín fights for the electric car

He came to the interview from his morning boxing training still with plenty of energy and in good spirits, although not everything he said later was happy. Robert Kiml, the new – and first Czech – president of Kolín-based Toyota Motor Manufacturing Cz ...

Kamil Blazek: It’s right to have ambitions, but…

“The Czech Republic suffers from an unwillingness to help new investment projects. Greenfield investments have to overcome so many obstacles that they often make no sense for the investor,” says Kamil Blažek, chairman of the Association for F ...

The new European invasion of China

Cooperation between China and Europe in the automotive industry began 40 years ago when the first Volkswagen Santana was assembled in China from imported parts. The partnership between Chinese and European manufacturers is now taking on a whole new dimension ...

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