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The Automotive Industry Association presents companies that have earned the right to use the prestigious title “Supplier for Car of the Year 2026 in the Czech Republic” in the 32nd annual Car of the Year 2026 survey in the Czech Republic. Parts from domestic companies are not ...

Despite a number of challenges, domestic vehicle manufacturers managed to produce a total of 1,445,776 passenger cars in 2025. Despite a year-on-year decrease of 0.5%, they achieved the second best result in history. Bus production also achieved an ...

Hungary has become one of the important centers of the European automotive industry over the past ten to fifteen years, mainly thanks to German manufacturers. In addition to the car factories themselves, battery factories have been built or are still being built ...

From the beginning of the year to the end of November, a total of 1,349,148 passenger vehicles were produced on the lines of domestic manufacturers, which is only slightly below the level of last year’s record year. The production of motorcycles also recorded a& ...

Although the Automotive Industry Association welcomes the fact that the European Commission is finally coming up with the promised package of measures to mitigate the impacts of overly ambitious automotive targets, at first glance it unfortunately appears that th ...

The General Meeting of the Automotive Industry Association, which took place this year at Škoda Auto in Mladá Boleslav, once again confirmed the stability and continuity of the leadership of the most important industrial sector in the Czech Republic. The Association members re-elected Mar ...

A fairly comprehensive picture of the state of the automotive sector could be drawn from the headlines of the articles in this issue of the magazine alone. If you want to start with the overall situation and an attempt to find answers to questions about how to keep Central and Eastern Eur ...

After thirteen years, the CEO who left the company at a time when it was fighting for survival has returned to the helm of Tatra. Today, he faces the opposite pressure. There are more orders, especially from the defense industry, than the automaker can cover ...

Instead of high incentives, a much more attractive business environment, competitive energy prices, reasonable tax regulations, a smart depreciation policy or better evaluation of research and development. Unification of criteria for strategic investmen ...

Between January and October, a total of 1,214,016 passenger cars were assembled in the plants of domestic manufacturers, only 2% less year-on-year than in the same period last year. On the contrary, production in the bus segment grew significantly, reaching 4,588 units (+28.1%), whil ...

Investment in science and research is not a problem, but their meaningful distribution is. Real change can only happen when people with vision and courage are in charge at all levels. This is exactly what we talked about with Professor Vladimír Mařík, founde ...

How to keep Central and Eastern Europe attractive for business in times of energy uncertainty, regulatory pressures and geopolitical changes? What do supplier companies need to be able to face competition, especially from Chinese manufacturers? These were not the ...

In the first three quarters of this year, a total of 1,089,416 passenger vehicles were assembled on the lines of domestic passenger car manufacturers, only 0.7% less year-on-year. The million-vehicle mark was thus broken again in September, which became the ...

Politicians and the media in Europe have long claimed that cheap Chinese electric cars are flooding European markets, destroying the EU automotive industry. What is the reality? Is Chinese production conquering the old continent thanks to low prices? And is it co ...

From the beginning of the year to the end of August, a total of 953,433 passenger cars were assembled on the lines of domestic passenger car manufacturers, 2.1% less year-on-year. Despite the plant-wide holidays the production of the summer months of July and August brought higher ye ...

Tomáš Fürst, a mathematician and data analyst at Palacký University in Olomouc, says that models that try to predict the future can only be reliable if we know the physical laws on which the system is based. “We only know a little about the climate,” he ...