Mladá Boleslav, 23 January 2025 – In 2024, Škoda Auto manufactured over 925,000 autos at its world manufacturing services, a year-on-year enhance of 4.2%. Moreover, the corporate produced greater than 280,000 battery programs for electrical and plug-in hybrid autos throughout the Volkswagen Group, over 1 million transmissions and almost 500,000 engines. The essential plant in Mladá Boleslav accounted for the share of this success by producing 575,000 Škoda autos. In 2024, manufacturing of a file variety of new and refreshed fashions started, together with the Scala, Kamiq, Kylaq, Octavia and Kodiaq mannequin sequence. The firm additionally continued to strengthen its worldwide operations: capability at the Pune plant in India was expanded for the Kylaq compact SUV, Škoda’s third mannequin made in India for India. Moreover, preparations for car meeting in Vietnam have been finalised, and Kodiaq SKD manufacturing began in Kazakhstan.
“From a Manufacturing perspective, 2024 was one in every of the most difficult years in Škoda Auto’s historical past. This was as a result of the launch of a file variety of new autos, the enlargement of our worldwide manufacturing capacities, and additional optimisation of producing processes. I wish to thank the complete Manufacturing and Logistics workforce for the dedication and laborious work, which have been key to attaining this excellent consequence. Final yr, we took necessary steps to enhance our competitiveness and effectivity, together with the logistically demanding partial relocation of the Octavia’s manufacturing to Kvasiny. This transfer freed up capability on our distinctive, versatile manufacturing line in Mladá Boleslav, which accommodates each ICE autos and electrical autos, making method for the new Elroq mannequin vary.”
Andreas Dick, Škoda Auto Board Member for Manufacturing and Logistics
Automobile manufacturing within the Czech RepublicŠkoda Auto’s Czech crops stay the most important contributors to its world automobile manufacturing. The Mladá Boleslav plant elevated its manufacturing to 575,000 (+3.4%) autos final yr, having partially relocated manufacturing of the best-selling Octavia.
In 2024, the Fabia, up to date variations of the Scala, Octavia, and Kamiq, in addition to the totally electrical Enyaq and Enyaq Coupé fashions rolled out from the Mladá Boleslav plant. Regardless of growing competitors and an industry-wide slowdown in demand for totally electrical autos, the Enyaq vary attracted robust buyer curiosity, with Škoda Auto manufacturing almost 80,000 items final yr.
The manufacturing line in Mladá Boleslav is exclusive within the Volkswagen Group in its potential to concurrently produce autos with inner combustion engines on the MQB platform and electrical autos on the MEB platform. This flexibility enhances manufacturing effectivity and permits the plant to reply swiftly to modifications in demand. By the finish of the yr, preparations have been accomplished for the sequence manufacturing of the all-new Elroq, with a every day manufacturing capability of up to 600 items.
The Kvasiny plant, celebrating 90 years of operation in 2024, additionally delivered robust outcomes, producing 248,000 autos. This web site primarily focuses on the new technology of the Kodiaq mannequin and Karoq, with the up to date Octavia just lately added to its manufacturing portfolio.
Manufacturing of engines, transmissions, and battery systemsThe Mladá Boleslav plant can also be a main producer of parts. Final yr, it manufactured almost 500,000 engines from the environment friendly EA 211 vary, and 355,000 MQ 200 guide transmissions. In 2024, Škoda Auto celebrated 125 years of in-house engine improvement and manufacturing, having reached a complete output of 15 million engines – a testomony to its standing as one in every of the world’s longest-established engine producers.
Moreover, the expanded manufacturing line in Mladá Boleslav delivered 227,000 traction batteries for electrical autos based mostly on the MEB platform. These are put in in Škoda autos and different Volkswagen Group manufacturers like Volkswagen, Audi, and SEAT/CUPRA. An further 53,600 batteries have been produced for plug-in hybrid fashions. In December 2024, Škoda Auto reached the milestone of 1 million battery programs produced since 2019.
The carbon-neutral Vrchlabí plant, celebrating 160 years of operation in 2024, achieved an output of 710,600 seven-speed DSG 200 computerized transmissions in 2024. These are utilized in Škoda autos in addition to different Volkswagen Group fashions.
Efficiency and significance of Škoda’s manufacturing abroadŠkoda Auto leads operations in India on behalf of the Volkswagen Group and its manufacturers. The nation serves as Škoda’s second base exterior Europe and a future export hub, capitalising on gross sales potential in areas equivalent to ASEAN, the Center East, Australia, and New Zealand.
In 2024, Škoda Auto produced 32,800 autos at its two Indian crops. The Pune facility manufactures the Slavia and Kushaq fashions, and in December 2024, manufacturing of the brand-new Kylaq compact SUV started, accompanied by an enlargement of manufacturing capability by 30%. The Kylaq will contribute to the model’s annual gross sales goal of 100,000 vehicles in India by 2026. The native logistics centre prepares Slavia and Kushaq fashions as utterly knocked-down (CKD) kits, which will likely be assembled at a newly constructed plant in Vietnam. In the meantime, manufacturing of the Kodiaq SUV continued final yr at the facility in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (previously Aurangabad).
Since December 2023, the Volkswagen Group’s plant in Bratislava, Slovakia, has been producing the new-generation Very good. In 2024, 54,500 items of this mannequin rolled off the manufacturing line. Improvement of the Very good, alongside its sister mannequin, the Volkswagen Passat, was entrusted to Škoda as a part of the Beta+ challenge.
In China, Škoda autos have been produced within the cities of Changsha, Ningbo, and Nanjing. The 2024 portfolio included the Octavia, Octavia Professional, Kamiq, Kamiq GT, Karoq, Kodiaq, and Very good, with whole manufacturing reaching 15,200 autos.
In Solomonovo, Ukraine, meeting of the Karoq SUV continued.
Advancing internationalisation by increasing Škoda Auto’s world footprintThroughout 2024, Vietnam – one in every of ASEAN’s most dynamic markets – noticed intensive preparations for the manufacturing of the Slavia and Kushaq fashions from knocked-down kits imported from India. Collection manufacturing of the Kushaq is scheduled to launch within the first quarter of this yr. Vietnam may also function a gateway to different ASEAN international locations.
In Kazakhstan, the automobile producer assembles the Kodiaq, Karoq, Kamiq and Octavia from semi-knocked-down (SKD) kits. Over 1,400 autos have been produced final yr following Škoda’s re-entry into this market. In 2025, the corporate plans to develop native SKD meeting to embody the new technology of Very good.
