Automotive, page 5

Updates on production, innovation and investment in Slovakia's largest industry: automobile manufacturing

The autimotive industry is one of main pillars of the Slovak economy.

Coronavirus crisis reduced car production by an estimated 20 percent in Slovakia

ZAP proposes to use Recovery Fund money to build new alternative fuel charging stations.

The Hydrogen Technology Research Centre (CVVT) is to be launched at the end of 2020 or beginning of 2021 in KoŔice to do R&D in this field.

Car industry needs to jump on the latest trends

Economy minister promises extensive support for hydrogen technologies in Slovakia.

Oliver Grünberg, chairman of the board of Volkswagen Slovakia, bringing details about teh €1 billion investment to Bratislava.

Passat and Superb make up half of the €1 billion Volkswagen is investing in Slovakia

Production of two new models will balloon the labour force by 2,000 from current 12,100 people.

The CEIT’s automated guided vehicle in action at the Volkswagen Slovakia plant in Bratislava.

Process innovations allow Slovak innovators to shine

Slovak-made innovations make their way to the world through transnational companies.

The very first VW Passat produced in the Bratislava VW plant in December 1991.

Passat returns to VW plant in Bratislava after 30 years

Moving production of the Volkswagen Passat and Å koda Superb to Bratislava will account for half of the planned €1 billion investment.

Volkswagen plant in Slovakia

New car models for Bratislava. Volkswagen will reportedly make a big investment in Slovakia

The investment is higher than the Igor Matovič government has hoped for.

A fly test of the AirCar prototype.

Slovak car-plane developers look to cash in on changing views of flying cars

AeroMobil and AirCar among a handful of firms working on special concept.

The Bratislava plant of Volkswagen.

How many people were infected in Volkswagen or U.S. Steel? Top companies mostly remain silent

Biggest employers have introduced measures, they do not want to talk about possible layoffs.

The number of electric cars driving Slovak roads remains low.

A new smart battery can be tailored to any electric vehicle

The mass production is expected to start next year.

Volkswagen Touareg R

Bratislava’s Volkswagen kicks off production of new plug-in hybrid model

It will roll down from production lines on the 10th anniversary of manufacturing the first hybrid vehicle.

Amazon’s returns centre in Sereď is an example of a successful US project in Slovakia.

BUSINESS FOCUS: Pandemic changes plans of American investors in Slovakia

Slovak-US relations, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on US companies in Slovakia and the story of the first factory for electric car batteries in Slovakia are among the highlights of the latest Business Focus.

Project of InoBat Auto and Wildcat Discovery Technologies will move Slovakia forward in one of the fastest growing areas – electromobility.

Slovakia is following the trend by producing electric car batteries

InoBat Auto will be the first supplier of tailor-made car batteries.

Porsche sign, illustrative stock photo

A new Porsche plant will be built in Slovakia

The investment is good news for the automotive industry during the coronavirus crisis.

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Coronavirus assistance did not go to the hardest hit sector of business

Support for businesses in the coronavirus-induced crisis unevenly distributed, analysis shows.

A flying Aero 4.0

Autonomous cars: Attainable reality or outlandish dream?

Questions of morality must be answered before we put autonomous vehicles on the road.

Robots assemble vehicles in the carmaker Kia Slovakia.

One-third of jobs may be replaced by robots

The automotive industry introduced the most robots.

Jaguar Land Rover in Nitra restored its production.

Jaguar Land Rover restores operation in Nitra

Plant currently running one-shift operation.

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Delayed government assistance put Slovakia’s competitiveness at risk

A study compares measures to combat the impact of the coronavirus crisis in seven European countries.

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Bratislava Volkswagen plant launches three-shift operation in late May

Second shift to be added in mid-May as production gradually resumes.

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