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Josef Šopík decided to leave Emil Frey Group, devoting himself to other business activities. Zdeněk Fořt, former director of used car sales in Czechia and Managing Director of EF Mobility, appointed as new Head of Opel in Czechia and chief executive at 'O Automobil Import'
November 15, 2024 | 12:40pm CETflashread more
Floods in Switzerland: Novelis (Hindalco Industries/Aditya Birla Group; manufacturer of flat-rolled aluminium/aluminum products for automotive, aerospace, beverage packaging industries with 13,190 employees in 32 plants in 9 countries; customers: Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, General Motors, GMC, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Ferrari, FCA/Stellantis, Maserati, DS Automobiles, Nissan, Toyota, Volvo, Daimler, Mercedes-Benz, Nio, Honda, Hyundai, BMW, JLR/Jaguar Land Rover, Ford, Renault, Rivian, Samsung, Denso) partially resumed production in Sierre, Switzerland, expecting to return to normal production capability (26 kilotonnes of FRP not produced in Q3) in Q4. Company recognized charges of USD 101 million in Q2, Q3 resulting from factory flooding, including fixed asset and inventory charges, idle fixed costs, repairs and clean-up costs, and excess costs to fulfill customer contracts
November 15, 2024 | 12:31pm CETflashread more
Automotive Chassis Systems Technical Conferences & Exhibition Week 2024: Automotive IQ (IQPC) to hold three conferences on automotive chassis systems with exhibition in Munich, Germany on November 26-28 – Automotive Braking Systems Europe (16th year), Automotive Steering Systems Europe (16th year), Automotive Advanced Suspension Systems Europe (13th year). Representatives of Volkswagen, Toyota, Ford, Mercedes-AMG, JLR (Jaguar Land Rover), Ceer Motors, Renault, Iran Khodro, Iveco, Hyundai Motor Technical Centre, General Motors (GM), Knorr-Bremse, Magna, Forvia Hella, Bozzio, Gabriel India, ThyssenKrupp Presta, Hitachi Astemo, Robert Bosch, JTEKT, Renesas Electronics, Huawei, ZF, Nexteer, Tenneco, KYB, BWI, Ampere Software Technology, Nylacast to speak at event
November 13, 2024 | 02:55pm CETflashread more
Car Importers Association (SDA) expanded statistics of registrations of imported used vehicles (cars, trucks, buses) in Czechia with reports by fuel/power. Total of 12,337 used cars imported into Czechia in October, 119,546 units in first 10 months (FCEVs 1, 1; BEVs 424, 3,101; PHEVs 290, 3,077; CNG 42, 425; LPG 63, 746; petrol 5,500, 50,109; diesel 5,977, 61,728)
November 13, 2024 | 02:47pm CETflashread more
Škoda Auto delivered 671,300 vehicles to customers in Q1-3 (84,200 in September; 222,700 in Q3, +6%), representing increase of 29,100 units/4.5% (Octavia 164,900 cars, +13.7%; Kamiq 92,300, +8.3%; Fabia 84,900, +21.3%; Karoq 81,800, +7.9%; Kodiaq 80,300, -1.2%; Enyaq 50,800, -6.7%; Superb 50,100, -0.5%; Scala 42,500, -1.9%; Kushaq 12,700, -34.4%; Slavia 11,000, -22%). Sales in Europe (552,400, +8.2%) and some Asian countries (Turkey/Türkiye 30,100, +23.4%; Israel 15,900, +24.2%) grew, India (24,000, -32.7%) and China (11,800, -34.6%) experienced decline. Škoda Auto Group production reached 780,500 vehicles (+5.3%), sales (deliveries to distributors) 808,600 cars (+4%)
November 13, 2024 | 02:39pm CETflashread more
Volkswagen Group Services (formerly AutoVision; service provider in areas of R&D, IT, engineering, procurement, quality assurance, manufacturing & logistics, sales, health within Volkswagen Group with more than 13,500 employees in Germany, Portugal, Slovakia, Hungary, Spain, Poland, Brazil) opened branch in Czechia with offices in Mladá Boleslav (headquarters of Škoda Auto) and Prague, as offshoot of Slovak branch (Volkswagen Group Services s.r.o. with more than 400 employees in Bratislava, Martin)
November 12, 2024 | 09:19am CETflashread more
SDA: New car registrations in Czechia up by 9% in October (vans -35.7%; trucks -1.2%; buses -6.2%; motorcycles -1.8%; trailers+semitrailers -11.7%), individual fuel/power types successful differently (BEV 1,475 +100.7%, PHEV 532 -22.4%, LPG 412 +57.3%, petrol 13,850 +8.6%, diesel 4,799 +3.6%)
November 12, 2024 | 09:04am CETflashread more
Slovak Industry Vision Day 2024: SARIO to hold forum with subtitle "Energetics – New challenges and opportunities" in Šamorín near Bratislava on November 21, matchmaking event, exhibition (Expo) with participation of companies such as T.O.P. Auto Premium, Patak Motors (Rodster), EV-GP (Electric Vehicle – Green Power), Peek To Power, Tesla Energy Group, NVAS (Slovak National Hydrogen Association), GreenTalk, ESG Klub. Representatives of Jaguar Land Rover, Schaeffler Kysuce, Milence, Norriv, ČSOB, DHL, ASEKOL SK, PW Energy, Viessmann, Ipesoft, Zero Emission Company to speak at conference. Event is focused on energetics and renewable resources, innovative solutions in energetics, green and smart technologies, transport and automotive industry, information and communication technologies (ICT), electrical engineering and defense industry, battery recycling and energy storage technologies, financing
November 11, 2024 | 10:55am CETflashread more
European Commission (EC) imposed additional countervailing duties on imports of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) from China for period of five years (above standard import duty on cars which is 10% in European Union). Based on more than one-year anti-subsidy investigation (from September/October 2023), EC found that BEV value chain in China benefits from unfair subsidization (including preferential financing, grants or provision of land, batteries and raw materials at below-market prices) which is causing threat of economic injury to EU producers of these vehicles, and imposed tariffs in range of 7.8-35.3% (Tesla: 7.8%, BYD: 17%, Geely: 18.8%, SAIC: 35.3%, other cooperating automakers: 20.7%, other non-cooperating manufacturers: 35.3%). The 20.7% duty applies to Aiways, Anhui (Volkswagen), BMW Brilliance, Chery, FAW (Audi, Mazda, Toyota, VW), Chongqing, Dongfeng (Seres, Honda, Peugeot, Citroën, Voyah), Great Wall, Leapmotor, Nanjing Golden Dragon, Nio, XPeng. Provisional duties imposed on July 4 not to be collected, EC added
November 11, 2024 | 10:48am CETflashread more
J.D. Power, GlobalData cut 2024 global new light-vehicle sales outlook by 500,000 cars, vans from 88.5 million (+2%) to 88 million (+1.4%). As global light-vehicle sales show signs of stabilizing, some of acceleration previously expected in Q4 has been tempered, Schuster (GlobalData) said. Revisions made for China, Western Europe, USA. Firms also published first forecast for 2025 – 91.1 million units (+3.5%). Growth is still anticipated to pick up in 2025 as pricing moderates and economic risks are expected to diminish, he added
November 11, 2024 | 10:44am CETflashread more
Ford to suspend production of F-150 Lightning BEV in Dearborn near Detroit, Tennessee, USA (Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, 800 employees) for seven weeks (November 18, 2024 – January 6, 2025) and temporarily lay off 730 workers, due to weaker demand than automaker expected
November 7, 2024 | 07:56am CETflashread more
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Martin Jahn might leave post of president of Czech Automotive Industry Association
August 16, 2016 | 11:42pm CEToriginalVolkswagen has moved him from Germany to China. His tasks at the world's largest market, 2016 sales plans...
read moreToyota Motor recalls hundreds of thousands of cars for third time due to rear axles
August 16, 2016 | 08:21pm CEToriginalTwo previous recall actions have not solved the problem. The affected Toyota and Lexus models, including HEVs, the number of cars in the US, possible consequences...
read more2016 Prague Motor Show: Central-Bohemian car exhibition to be held in different month than last year, place to remain the same
August 15, 2016 | 11:55pm CEToriginalThe date before the Paris Motor Show, presentation of vehicles by dealers, the first year of the ecological traffic fair EkoAuto, nomenclature...
read moreDieselgate: Volkswagen gained approval from KBA to modify additional 460,000 diesel cars
August 15, 2016 | 11:28pm CEToriginalTherefore, the automaker can recall almost two thirds of the vehicles affected by the affair in Europe. Details…
read moreAudatex: Average damage to crashed cars up by 7.5% in Czech Rep in 2015
August 15, 2016 | 01:07am CEToriginalDetails of the analysis of the cost of repairs, the number of accidents in each month, mostly crashed models and components...
read moreUniversity of Birmingham: Keyless unlocking of Volkswagen Group cars can be broken
August 15, 2016 | 12:55am CEToriginalThis applies particularly to older models and cars built on ending platforms. Details of the problem, the brands concerned, including Skoda, a former problem of the Hitag2/HT2 technology...
read moreSkoda Connect: Skoda to offer online services, initially in Kodiaq
August 12, 2016 | 12:02am CEToriginalSuppliers of the technology, introduction to other models, the affected services, Kodiaq’s launch, development of the SUV category in the Czech Republic, sales plans...
read moreCSU: Car prices in Czech Rep decreased m/m in July
August 11, 2016 | 11:32pm CEToriginalBoth new and used cars became cheaper, and on the contrary, prices of motorcycles went up. Service works and spare parts, detailed data, y/y development...
read moreAudi recorded changes in marketing in Czech Rep
August 10, 2016 | 11:08pm CEToriginalOne specialist left, his function has been taken over by a long-time employee of Porsche Czech Republic. A related tender...
read moreNokian Tyres expanded cooperation with McCann
August 10, 2016 | 01:03am CEToriginalIn addition to the marketing campaigns, PR communication in several European countries have been added. The states concerned, including the Czech Republic, Czech PR team, former PR agency...
read moreSkoda wants to strengthen sale of quality used cars at dealerships
August 9, 2016 | 02:38am CEToriginalThe expansion of the Skoda Plus program to other countries, the introduction of new standards, modernization of sales points (Easy Entry, Car Port, Showroom), construction of showrooms, sales results in H1...
read moreBridgestone chose new EMEA head
August 8, 2016 | 11:19pm CEToriginalHe is coming to the Japanese tire manufacturer from a competing firm. Franco Annunziato was charged to lead a different region...
read moreCarGarantie expanded Management Board, appointing new Sales Director
August 7, 2016 | 11:57pm CEToriginalHe will be responsible for expansion in Europe and especially in Asia. It is a former Nissan manager...
read moreFord Motor recalls vehicles due to problem with door
August 7, 2016 | 11:45pm CEToriginalThe measure relates notably to the USA. Details of the defect, affected Ford and Lincoln models, costs, earlier door recall...
read moreVlcek (Skoda): Czech car market to grow at double digit rate in 2016, despite July slump
August 5, 2016 | 02:38am CEToriginalGetting closer to Austria, the outlook for 2017, the plan of Skoda, estimate of the used car market...
read moreSDA: Registrations of new cars in Czech Rep fell by 12.5% in July
August 3, 2016 | 11:26pm CEToriginalThe fall was tempered by Mercedes, VW and Renault. The end of more than two-and-half-year growth, factors, consumer demand for operating leases, commercial vehicles, the results for seven months...
read moreAuto Esa to open first pure buy-back branch
August 2, 2016 | 12:01am CEToriginalLocation, size of the facility, services, HR, business plan...
read moreDaimler to build second plant in Hungary
July 31, 2016 | 11:25pm CEToriginalLocation, amount of investment, HR, products, capacity, timing, incentives, plan for increasing the portfolio to more than 40 models...
read moreBMW Group recorded series of personnel changes in Czech Rep
July 27, 2016 | 12:01am CEToriginalThese relate to several brands and departments. The company solved some of the personnel changes through rotation. Affected managers and their careers, timing...
read moreTesla wants to expand into commercial vehicles, car sharing and solar systems
July 26, 2016 | 12:01am CEToriginalPlanned models of cars, trucks and buses, car sharing of self-driving cars of clients, own carsharing service, solar roofs with an integrated battery...
read moreSkoda dealers opened 2,000 new design showrooms so far
July 24, 2016 | 11:33pm CEToriginalOne fifth of them decided to build a showroom under a new concept. Impact on business performance, dealerships with 3D car configurator, digital service...
read moreCSU: Car prices in Czech Rep stagnated m/m in June 2016
July 24, 2016 | 11:16pm CEToriginalWhile new cars became more expensive, prices of used cars went down. Prices of motorbikes and servicing incresed, spare parts went down, detailed data, the y/y development...
read moreCarzada gained confidence of Czech investors as well
July 20, 2016 | 12:01am CEToriginalThe profile of this platform for online sales of quality used cars, business results in the first country – Germany, partners...
read moreIndian court: Only diesel cars younger than 10 years may be operated in capital city
July 18, 2016 | 11:49pm CEToriginalDelhi transport authorities will cancel the registration to older diesel vehicles immediately. Ongoing state campaign against diesel in the most polluted city in the world...
read moreCarmudi: German company expands worldwide, passing Europe
July 12, 2016 | 11:45pm CEToriginalThe car advertising portal specializes in emerging markets. Activities in 20 countries, website profile, finances from investors...
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