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As part of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Study Days, MEPs from various European countries visited Aurel in the Czech Republic. The program focused on the challenges of the European automotive industry and offered participants the opportunity to ...

Chip outages, broken supply chains and the energy shock have subsided. However, European automotive suppliers have not been relieved. Instead of one extraordinary crisis, they are now facing several long-term pressures at the same time: a weaker European mar ...

A total of 187,280 vehicles were produced in July and August. Since the beginning of the year, manufacturers have assembled a total of 966,888 passenger cars. Despite summer shutdowns and holidays, this represents a year-on-year growth of 1.4%. The production of buses also perfo ...

We are happy with each new issue of Czech Automotive Industry. And perhaps even more so than ever before. It’s not just about the magazine itself, but about what precedes it. Visits to plants, meetings with people whose work the automotive industry relies on. And the experience ...

Financial crisis, Covid, the emergence of Chinese competition – Petr Michník, head of the administrative division of Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Czech, has experienced several major upheavals at the carmaker in twenty years. Today, he considers one of the biggest ...

The United States remains one of the world’s largest and most important automotive markets. Beneath the surface of relatively stable sales numbers, however, the American automotive landscape is changing rapidly. Production is shifting to new regions, tariffs are affecting inves ...

In the first half of 2026, a total of 780,378 passenger cars were assembled on the lines of domestic manufacturers, up 4.4% year-on-year. In June alone, production showed a year-on-year increase of 3.3%. Higher year-on-year values ​​were also recorded f ...

More than 120 international participants from the automotive industry, government, business, diplomacy and academia gathered at the FUZE restaurant in Prague’s iconic Masaryčka building on June 30, 2026 for the fifth annual Automotive Leaders Forum. Th ...

The Automotive Industry Association has announced the winners of the Automotive Industry Company of the Year competition for the 28th time. As in previous years, this year, in which the basic economic results of companies in 2025 were assessed, a total of 6 most successful companies ...

The second-strongest year in passenger car production ever, an exceptional year for bus production and record sales – these are the key indicators characterizing the development of 2025 in the member companies of the Automotive Industry Association. These results ...

From the beginning of the year to the end of May 2026, a total of 639,681 passenger cars were produced in the country – 4.7% more year-on-year. The production of buses also grew by 2,406 units (+7.2%) and motorcycles by 397 (+34.6%). The share of all e ...

There was a time when changes in industry were measured in decades. New technology took years to get from the development center to production, and years more to impact the market. Today, the pace of change has shrunk to months, sometimes weeks. This is true in the automotive industr ...

Perspectives on cooperation between industry and universities often overlap. Companies are looking for quick, concrete solutions, while academia works on longer research horizons. But it is precisely in this tension that significant potential lies: if both worlds ...

The Czech and European automotive industries are entering another key phase in the development of electromobility. It is in the coming months that a decision will be made on whether the European regulatory framework can better reflect real market, technologi ...

The Czech Republic has entered a new “transport era” since the beginning of 2026. The amendment to the Road Traffic Act has enabled the operation of vehicles with conditional automated driving, i.e. at the SAE Level 3 level, on Czech roads. However, there ar ...

From January to the end of April, a total of 1,892 buses rolled off the lines of domestic manufacturers – 10.4% more year-on-year. The production of the dominant segment of passenger cars also grew, with 525,293 units manufactured (+7%) and thus surpassing t ...