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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 ...

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 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 ...

The Brandýslav plant is one of the most modern centers for the production of automotive electronics not only within AUMOVIO, but also in the entire industry. In addition to producing the most modern automotive technology, it is dedicated to development and strive ...

In December 2025, the European Commission presented a set of measures known as the Automotive Package, introducing targeted adjustments to emissions targets and greater flexibility in the approach to transforming the automotive industry. The proposed softeni ...

The newly re-elected president of the Association of the Automotive Industry and a member of the board of directors of Škoda Auto, Martin Jahn, assesses the Czech automotive industry as healthy and standing on solid foundations, but expects that with the acc ...

The interest of companies in cooperation with academia has increased in recent years, and industry is becoming more aware of the need for automation, robotization, and digitalization. According to Petr Šimoník, vice-dean for cooperation with industry and commerci ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tawesco was established by spinning off from Tatra in 1995, but in the media it remains in the shadow of Tatra to this day. Margita Rejchrtová has been its head for six years and says that exclusive dependence on the heavy truck manufacturer is a thing of the past. Tawesco is mainly ...