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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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Although the General Manager of Iveco Czech Republic, David Kříž, has a driving licence only for passenger cars, he was happy to sit behind the wheel of a bus with the IVECO BUS brand at our request. He is proud of this brand, especially the CROSSWAY model series, which is produced R ...