Major changes in the group’s management stem from the long-running disputes between Diess and the unions. Ty Diess was incensed by statements about the necessary massive redundancies of up to 30,000 employees as part of the necessary savings. Diess later softened his statement, but the disputes persisted. According to information from the German media, Diess … Read more
The Western world is facing an increase in organized violence and the prospects for the future are not rosy. The work of police officers is becoming increasingly risky, and armored cars are also appearing in the regular patrol service. The British have already deployed 450 Superbs in a special design, which we could try out … Read more
The carmakers have managed to reduce the price of batteries due to the limited use of precious metals, but lithium itself may become a problem next year. Its prices are rising. At the same time, it is crucial for car manufacturers to reduce the price of electric cars as much as possible to the level … Read more
Four years after the premiere of the original version, Škoda introduced the modernized Karoq SUV. The compact model with its external appearance approached the new Octavia or Fabia, more thought was also given to aerodynamics. And although the car is powered only by gasoline or diesel, the new Karoq is greener than ever. The most … Read more
Vendors face swelling costs at a time of significant weakness. The Association of the Automotive Industry (AutoSAP) expects up to three hundred thousand unproduced cars to fail this year. This represents approximately 260 billion crowns of sales that would otherwise land on the accounts of small and large car companies. “Lack of raw materials, logistics … Read more
The very first Yaris Hybrid model launched in the Czech Republic rolled off the production line on Tuesday after eleven o’clock. The construction of one car model with a hybrid engine will take the carmaker in Cologne about eight hours. They produce almost nine hundred cars every day, and in the future fifty percent of … Read more
Sales of new passenger cars fell by a quarter year-on-year to 12,670 in October. It was thus 36 percent lower than in 2019. Sales in the ten months of this year reached 174,494 cars and were 5.7 percent above the same period last year and lagged by 17 percent behind the previous year 2019. This … Read more
Chips in new cars increase by seven to eight percent a year. For example, in the Enyaq model, there are well over a thousand chips. According to Schäfer, many states now see this area as a strategic investment, but it is a long-term and costly affair. However, the carmaker does not plan to produce its … Read more
Škoda Auto will resume production in most production facilities on Sunday evening after a two-week shutdown, said spokeswoman Kamila Biddle. The reason for the outage was the lack of chips used in on-board electronics. – “Most of Škoda Auto’s production facilities will resume production after a two-week shutdown on Sunday, ie today, starting at night … Read more
“Most of Škoda Auto’s production facilities will resume production after a two-week outage on Sunday, ie today, starting at night from 10 pm,” said Biddle. An exception during the outage was one line in Kvasiny. During it, the company focused on completing about ten thousand distributed cars. In the long run, the number of unfinished … Read more