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ACEA: New electrified vehicle registrations in Europe (EU+EFTA+UK, 31 countries) up by 20.2% to 8.42 million MHEVs, HEVs, PHEVs, BEVs in 2025, while internal combustion engine car (ICEV) sales down by 18.6% to 4.85 million units (petrol, diesel, NGVs/CNG, LPG, biofuel/ethanol, including non-ICE FCEVs)
February 10, 2026 | 07:59am CETflashread more
Coface CEE Top 500 Ranking 2025: Automotive and transport industry (86 largest firms, -4 y/y) in Central and Eastern European region (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia) decreased turnover by 1% to EUR 191 billion in 2024 (2023: EUR 193 billion), number of employees fell by 13% to 353,000 (405,600). Largest companies in sector include Škoda Auto (EUR 24.42 billion, +6%; 37,005 people, +6%), Volkswagen Slovakia (EUR 12.52 billion, +6%; 10,755, +2%), Audi Hungaria (EUR 8.61 billion, -5%; 11,677, -9%), Kia Slovakia (EUR 8.08 billion, +1%; 3,000, -17%), Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Czech (EUR 7.46 billion, -1%; 2,823, -1%), Volkswagen Poznań (EUR 5.8 billion, -0.5%; 9,191, -6%), Volkswagen Group Polska (EUR 5.72 billion, +14%; 659, +2%), Automobile-Dacia (EUR 5.59 billion, +7%; 10,987, -4%), Toyota Central Europe (EUR 5.29 billion, +6%; 131, +22%), Inter Cars (EUR 4.55 billion, +8%; 5,261, +21%), Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary (EUR 4.17 billion, -18%; 4,830, +1%), FCA Poland (EUR 3.8 billion, +6%; 2,470, +6%), Ford Otosan Romania (EUR 3.74 billion, +36%; 6,356, +14%), MAN Trucks Sp. z o.o. (EUR 3.06 billion, -12%; 2,181, -3%), Toyota Motor Manufacturing Czech Republic (EUR 3.03 billion, +4%; 3,051, -5%), PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe (EUR 3.01 billion, +15%; 40,947, -1%), Continental Barum (EUR 2.97 billion, +6%; 4,380, +0.1%), Mercedes-Benz Polska (EUR 2.35 billion, +11%; 153, -3%), Mobis Automotive Czech (EUR 2.35 billion, -5%; 1,426, -4%), Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT (EUR 2.32 billion, -2%; 1,267, +2%), Magyar Suzuki (EUR 2.25 billion, -22%; 2,998, +2%), Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Poland (EUR 2.05 billion, -23%; 1,415, +2%), PCA Slovakia (EUR 2.03 billion, -38%; 3,443, +12%), Mobis Slovakia (EUR 2 billion, +1%; 2,000, -6%), Volkswagen Motor Polska (EUR 1.8 billion, -6%; 1,255, +0.1%), Continental Tires Slovakia (EUR 1.75 billion, +27%; 3,000, -8%), Stellantis Gliwice (EUR 1.75 billion, +24%; 2,899, +2%), Nemzeti Útdíjfizetési Szolgáltató (EUR 1.65 billion, +42%; 648, +1%) and other firms of Renault, Porsche/Volkswagen, Iveco/CNH, Volvo, Solaris/CAF, Scania/Traton, Ford, Alstom, Michelin, Autoliv, Boryszew, Tigar Tyres, Sungwoo, Motherson, Bosch, Schaeffler, Auto Partner, Horse Powertrain, Faurecia-Hella/Forvia, Pirelli, ZF, Hankook, BorgWarner, Lear, Denso, České dráhy, PKP Intercity, Air Baltic, Raben, DPP, Amazon, Plichta, Havi, Tallink, Waberer’s groups
February 10, 2026 | 07:52am CETflashread more
Second generation Nissan Leaf (ZE1) BEV caught fire in parking lot of Lidl supermarket in Průhonice near Prague, Czechia on February 9. Cold Cut Systems (CCS) Cobra firefighting equipment was deployed, thanks to which firefighters created hole in battery, Fire Rescue Service (HZS) said. No one injured
February 10, 2026 | 07:47am CETflashread more
Rho Motion (Benchmark Mineral Intelligence): Global new electric vehicle (EV) sales to grow by 15.7% to 23.9 million passenger cars, light-duty vehicles (LDVs/LCVs) in 2026 – China: 15.6 million BEVs and PHEVs (+21%), Europe (EU & EFTA & UK): 4.9 million (+15%), North America (USA & Canada & Mexico): 1.4 million (-23%), Rest of World (RoW): 2.1 million (+26%). Decline in North America to be driven by United States (-29%)
February 9, 2026 | 07:59am CETflashread more
Keba (manufacturer of KeContact AC chargers for electric vehicles, other products/solutions with 2,000 employees in Austria, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Czechia, Switzerland, Serbia, Turkey, UK, USA, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan; Industrial Automation, Handover Automation, Energy Automation divisions; customers: Daimler/Mercedes, BMW Group, Honda Access Europe, Clever A/S, Bee Charging Solutions; over 500,000 wallboxes sold) acquired assets of EnerCharge GmbH (manufacturer of DC charging stations for EVs with output of 40-480 kW with 60/97 employees in Kötschach-Mauthen and Oberlienz, Austria; clients in Europe and Middle East) from insolvency, integrating them into Keba Energy Automation division under newly founded company Keba eMobility DC GmbH. MP Corporate Finance, Saxinger advised buyer
February 9, 2026 | 07:54am CETflashread more
ACEA: New commercial vehicle registrations in EU mostly fell in 2025 (vans -8.8% to 1.45 million; trucks -6.2% to 307,460; buses+coaches +7.5% to 38,238), individual fuel/power types successful differently (BEV+PHEV: +68%, +71.3%, +38.9%; HEV+MHEV: +21.4%, -47.4%, -24.9%; FCEV+NGV+LPG+biofuel/ethanol: -43.4%, -9.4%, -9.4%; petrol: -31.9%, -33.7%, 1 unit; diesel: -12.8%, -8%, +5.7%)
February 9, 2026 | 07:48am CETflashread more
CarGarantie: Wolfgang Bach to retire. Oliver Kuhnle appointed as new CFO and member of Management Board (responsible for finance, controlling, central services, legal & compliance, human resources) on February 1, coming from Wüstenrot & Württembergische (W&W)
February 6, 2026 | 07:58am CETflashread more
JATO Dynamics: Electric (rechargeable) vehicle sales in Europe (28 countries) up by 35.7% to 341,591 units (224,351 BEVs, +33%; 117,240 PHEVs, +41%) in October 2025, representing 31.4% share in total registrations (penetration, +7.2 pp). Škoda Elroq (11,441 cars, new) was best-selling battery electric vehicle (BEV), followed by Renault 5 (9,539, +571%), Volkswagen ID.4 (7,018, +2%), VW ID.7 (6,974, +31%), VW ID.3 (6,741, +43%), BMW iX1 (6,191, +32%), Škoda Enyaq (6,170, -35%), Tesla Model Y (5,545, -37%), Kia EV3 (5,046, +) and Volvo EX30 (4,640, -14%). Overall BEV market led by Volkswagen (24,412, +27%), Škoda (18,626, +67%), Renault (17,110, +117%), BMW (15,977, +16%), Audi (13,422, +43%), Mercedes (12,479, +5%), Volvo (9,815, -3%), Ford (9,797, +115%), Peugeot (9,630, +19%) and BYD (9,449, +104%)
February 6, 2026 | 07:50am CETflashread more
AAA Auto (Aures Holdings) Barometer: In 2025, 102,679 nearly-new cars sold in Czechia (+4.5%; up to 5 years/50,000 km; 12% share in entire secondary market) with average price of CZK 900,696 (EUR 37,020; +1.7%), of which 6.6% electric vehicles, 8.3% hybrids, 31% diesel cars and 53% petrol vehicles
February 2, 2026 | 07:32am CETflashread more
ACEA: New car registrations in EU up by 5.8% in December, by 1.8% to 10.82 million in 2025 (Volkswagen +10.6%, +5.5%; Stellantis +6.8%, -4.7%; Renault -1.8%, +5.6%; Hyundai +4.7%, -3.1%; Toyota -9%, -6.3%; BMW +5.5%, +6.4%; Mercedes-Benz +2.4%, +1.5%; Ford -1.5%, -2.3%; Volvo Cars -2.2%, -14.5%; SAIC -2.1%, +33.9%; Nissan -5.8%, -2.1%; Tesla -31.9%, -37.9%; Suzuki -5.4%, -13.7%; BYD +167.1%, +227.8%; Mazda +0.7%, -13.5%; Jaguar Land Rover -25.3%, -17%; Honda +20.5%, +12.6%; Mitsubishi +2.3%, -23.6%), individual fuel/power types successful differently (BEV +51%, +29.9%; PHEV +36.7%, +33.4%; HEV+MHEV +5.8%, +13.7%; FCEV+NGV/CNG+LPG+biofuel/ethanol +20.1%, +7.8%; petrol -19.2%, -18.7%; diesel -22.4%, -24.2%). Self-charging hybrids (34.5% share) surpassed petrol cars (26.6%) in 2025, plug-in hybrids (9.4%) overtook diesel vehicles (8.9%)
February 2, 2026 | 07:27am CETflashread more
Warehouse with 2,000 pallets of paper packaging and hundreds of tyres owned by Corax (transport and logistics company with 100 Volvo trucks) on premises of airport in Planá near České Budějovice, Czechia hit by fire on January 12, causing damage estimated by tenant at CZK 30 million (EUR 1.24 million). Cause of fire was probably technical defect in Peugeot 407 SW car, from which flames jumped to hall, Fire Rescue Service (HZS) said. No one injured. Affiliated company Tomako CZ (distributor of Chinese tires Westlake for vans and trucks in Czechia) suspended sales in its e-shop
January 29, 2026 | 07:58am CETflashread more
Cebia Summary 4/2025: Average price of used cars sold in Czechia up by 4.2% y/y to CZK 296,000 (EUR 12,190) in 2025, by 0.7% during Q4 (12% up to CZK 100,000/EUR 4,000, 20% up to CZK 200,000/EUR 8,000, 21% up to CZK 300,000/EUR 12,000, 18% up to CZK 400,000/EUR 16,000, 16% up to CZK 500,000/EUR 20,000, 13% above CZK 500,000/EUR 20,000). One of reasons for price increase towards end of year was lower average age of cars that were newly sold on market. Sales grew by 4.3% to 683,000 cars (2024: 655,000), supply increased by 5.2%. In terms of powertrain types, 47.73% of cars on advertising offer had petrol/gasoline, 45.25% diesel, 3.22% hybrid, 2.46% electric, 0.94% LPG, 0.42% CNG and 0.01% others
January 29, 2026 | 07:52am CETflashread more
AutoSAP: Car production in Czechia up by 11% y/y to 96,628 in December, down by 0.5% to 1.45 million in 2025 (Škoda+SEAT/Cupra +25.1%, +5.6% to 947,140; Hyundai -23.4%, -16.5% to 276,175; Toyota +9.3%, -1.2% to 222,461). Buses (Iveco +23.9%, +27.3% to 5,143; SOR -16.5%, +15.4% to 480; Škoda Electric 0 units, 0 units), motorcycles (Jawa -95.6%, -23.9% to 692), trucks (Tatra n/a, -11.4% to 1,349), trailers (Agados n/a, -3.4% to 15,298; Schwarzmüller n/a, +4% to 1,589; Panav n/a, -2% to 479) successful differently. Year 2025 confirmed extraordinary resilience and performance of Czech automotive industry. More than 1.44 million passenger cars produced, record bus production and number of successes of domestically produced models across European and global markets. These and other results clearly show that Czech Republic remains one of key manufacturing centers in Europe, even in times of rising costs, volatile demand and uncertain global environment. Accelerating electrification was also significant trend in 2025. Production of electric vehicles increased by almost 90% year-on-year, with every fifth vehicle produced having either purely electric or plug-in hybrid drive, Jahn said. Electric car production increased by 165.9% to 20,167 BEVs and PHEVs in December (+88.7% to 285,176 in 2025), while internal combustion engine (ICE) car manufacturing decreased by 3.8% to 76,461 units (-10.3% to 1.16 million)
January 29, 2026 | 07:48am CETflashread more
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Smith Electric to deliver six electric cars on Avia underbodies to USA
July 27, 2009 | 10:51pm CEToriginalSimilarly to Ford electric cars, Avia cars are also named after prominent physicists. For transformation to electric cars, Avia annually supplies…
read moreHyundai to invest USD 3.3 billion in green technologies by 2013
July 23, 2009 | 01:59pm CEToriginalMore than a half of the investments will lead to development of hybrid cars. Roughly one third of the money will be used for...
read moreCEZ seeking Czech company to develop and produce high-charging stations for electric vehicles
July 22, 2009 | 09:37pm CEToriginalHigh-charging stations are offered by one US company with representation in Europe, but their price is around...
read moreFuel prices increased by 5.8% m/m in June
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read moreJapanese carmaker Toyota to start hybrid vehicle production also abroad
July 21, 2009 | 04:15pm CEToriginalThe second hybrid car after the model Prius will become Auris, whose production will start in mid-2010 in Europe in...
read moreHonda to speed up launching hybrid cars on market
July 15, 2009 | 07:26pm CEToriginalThe carmaker will introduce a sports hybrid car CR-Z to market in February 2010. By the end of next year the carmaker then intends to initiate sale of a small hybrid car...
read moreJapan began to solve problem with great silence of hybrid cars
July 6, 2009 | 01:39pm CEToriginalCommission established by the Ministry of Transport has to compile a report regarding the problem until the end of the year. The result may be an obligation for carmakers...
read moreSkoda Auto to invest in electric car development, Superb to be rebuilt
July 3, 2009 | 10:51pm CEToriginalThis is one of the activities of the Volkswagen Group in the field of alternative drives, which is working on the development of electric cars...
read moreA. Charouz to import electric cars to Czech Rep, as well as hybrids
June 29, 2009 | 11:13pm CEToriginalFirst, it will be utility vehicles, later followed by passenger cars. A. Charouz is already agreed on the first car delivery in the Czech Republic, but negotiating with other subjects...
read moreToyoda: Toyota to return to profit in two years at earliest, focusing on hybrids in Europe
June 25, 2009 | 06:34pm CEToriginalCarmakers Toyota, Honda and Nissan decreased production by about one third in May. However, Toyota is not planning closures of some plants...
read moreCEZ: One million electric cars to operate in Czech Rep in 15 years at earliest
June 25, 2009 | 02:18pm CEToriginalBy 2012, there should be 25 models of electric cars on the market. CEZ negotiate with almost all carmakers within the other testing projects…
read moreGeneral Motors supposedly require Opel redemption option
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read moreNissan plans on mass production of electric cars from 2012
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read moreCzech Senate approved anti-crisis packed including scrap bonus proposed by CSSD
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read moreBiofuel E85 started being sold in Czech Rep, a litre for CZK 25
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read moreFuel prices increased by 2.3% m/m in May
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read morePeugeot 3008: Front-wheel drive hatch with line of off-road systems in sales from CZK 479,900
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read moreVolvo Car to launch plug-in hybrids on market in 2012
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