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More than one hundred and twenty participants from the automotive industry, government, business and academia gathered on 24 June 2025 in Prague’s FUZE restaurant in the iconic Masarycka building for the fourth edition of the Automotive Leaders Forum. The event, organised by th ...

The current issue of the Czech Car Industry magazine is – in the broadest sense of the word – European. In fact, it focuses on the Automotive Action Plan recently presented by the European Commission. The ambitious document is intended to be a compass for the transformati ...

The Czech and European automotive industry stands at a critical crossroads. Maintaining the EU’s position as an economic power requires more than a long-term strategy – a fundamental change in the EU’s regulatory approach is essential. Without an ...

Security has been the number one issue in the European Union in recent weeks. There is talk about the percentage that each country should give to strengthen its defence, and there is consideration of loosening budget rules so that countries can take on more debt. None of them is in such a ...

Opening a strategic dialogue and public consultation on the future of the automotive industry is a step in the right direction. However, given the urgency of the challenges facing the sector, Europe needs concrete solutions, not endless discussions. We ...

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. ...

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 ...

More than a hundred guests gathered at the unique work and social event Automotive Leaders Forum at the Mánes Gallery this year. This time the Automotive Industry Association prepared it with an emphasis on sustainability. The evening included a tour of the exhibition on sustain ...

For the twenty-sixth time, the Automotive Industry Association has announced the winners of the Automotive Business of the Year competition. As in previous years, this year’s edition, which assessed the basic economic results of companies in 2023, anno ...

Nobody can see into anybody’s head. However, based on many interviews, one can roughly guess what occupies the brain capacity of automotive managers. We have tried to do so in this issue of Czech Car Industry. And here are our findings. David Kříž, head of Iveco in the Czech Republic, ...

The Czech and European automotive sector is going through a crucial period in its history. With the European elections approaching, it is therefore essential to focus fully on charting a path towards its continued prosperity and strengthening its global relevanc ...

It is not usual to put politicians on the front page of the Czech Car Industry. This time we made an exception – and for good reason. The Euro 7 standard has been moving the European car in ...

Let’s start with a quote from our big interview, “Europe is terribly slow, it is not action-oriented, we just have a lot of stamps and long processes…” Lukáš Rosůlek from Vitesco speaks about Europe in this way, but in the second interview of the current iss ...

It’s not happy, the irregularity of deliveries and outages continue, but the worst is hopefully behind us. This is how representatives of automotive supply companies assessed the current situation during the CEE Automotive Supply Chain conference, the largest meeting of automotive sect ...

It would take you a long time to find a text in this issue of Czech Car Industry that does not mention electromobility in some way. It is not that we have deliberately chosen firms and topics that relate to this phenomenon. That is just the way it is. The transition to alternative drives ...

Work and fun, such was the content of the Automotive Leaders Forum event, which took place on 27 June in the functionalist building of Galerie Mánes. For the second year of this unique event, the Association of the Automotive Industry invited not only representatives of AutoSAP member companies, ...