Škoda Auto is struggling with the lack of chips that are needed in the on-board electronics of cars. Due to this, Škoda cannot complete a number of cars directly on the line. The company has a maximum limit of 50,000 unfinished cars, a higher number would jeopardize the cash flow, ie the company’s cash flow … Read more
Deliveries of chips to the automotive industry have deteriorated and Škoda Auto must extend the shutdown at its production plants. It will not work even a week after the end of the 14-day company-wide holiday in August. Production at Škoda Auto will not start even one week after the company-wide holiday, which is planned for … Read more
Before the mass holiday at Škoda Auto, which is planned for the first two weeks of August, a number of other shifts will be canceled. The summer shutdown of production will begin before the holiday. The main reason is the lack of parts, said the weekly Škodovácký odborář. The company also needs to free up … Read more
In the first half of the year, the German automobile concern Volkswagen almost tripled its sales of electric cars worldwide to 170,939 cars. At the Škoda Group, sales of electric cars increased to 17,697 vehicles from 4,955 vehicles a year ago. Demand in Europe in particular contributed to the growth in sales of electric cars … Read more
The most important Octavia model returned to the key M13 production line in Mladá Boleslav last week. The carmaker had to stop its production for a few days two weeks ago due to a lack of semiconductor chips. Thus, only the Enyaq electric model was temporarily produced on the line. It was the first time … Read more
“The proposals we are seeing now would make it impossible to produce smaller cars, because the cost of producing them would rise so that they would be practically unsaleable,” says Martin Jahn, a member of the Škoda Auto Board of Directors, about the forthcoming Euro 7 standard. According to him, the transition to electromobility will … Read more