AUTOMOTIVE STUDY 2025 / Šaroch (ed.) et al.

CONCLUSION is book provides a structured view of the automotive industry from several perspectives. Firstly, it looks at the industry and its markets from a global perspective, then from the perspective of Europe and nally of Czechia. Secondly it looks at the perspective of the market shares of individual automotive concerns. It observes all this over a time span of the last twenty years. e result of the perspective over time is the apparent current dominance of Asia as the world’s largest contemporary market, which has overtaken Europe and the North American region in size and technology over that period. China is emerging as the leader in electric vehicle production, particularly in battery technology. e study analytically examines the sector from several other perspectives and illustrates this with a wealth of empirical material. In recent years, there has been a certain shift in passenger car production capacity between some EU Member States. ese changes are re ected in changes in the shares of total passenger car production within the EU. While some traditional automotive powers such as Italy or France have experienced stagnation or declining production, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have managed to signi cantly expand their production capacities and become among the leading European producers. Germany retained its position as the largest passenger car producer in the EU in 2023 with a 32.9% share of total production. Spain followed in second place with a 15% share. Czechia ranked third with a share of 11.2% of total passenger car production. ese shares not only re ect the degree of adaptation of production capacities in each country, but also their success in adapting to changing conditions and demands of the automotive market. e growth of production in Slovakia and the Czech Republic shows the ability of these countries to attract investment and e ectively use their capacities for the bene t of the domestic automotive industry, while the stable share of Germany and Spain con rms their long-term strong position within the European automotive market. In the EU countries mentioned above with the highest car production, the share of the automotive industry in total industry is one fth or one sixth. e share of automotive production in total EU exports amount to almost eight percent. In terms of imports and exports, we can nd a di erent ranking of the importance of the EU’s trading partners. While the EU exports mostly to the US and the UK, followed by Turkey and then China, China already leads in terms of imports into the EU, followed by the UK, Turkey, Japan, South Korea and Morocco. e production of motor vehicles in the Czech Republic began to increase signi cantly in 2005 thanks to the launch of production at the TMMCZ - Toyota Motor Manufacturing Czech Republic (until 2020 it was called TPCA - Toyota Peugeot Citroën Automobile Czech) in Kolín (28 February 2005), the launch of series production at the Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Czech (HMMC) plant in the Nošovice industrial zone (3 November 2008) and the expansion of production at the Czech plants of Škoda Auto in Mladá Boleslav and Kvasiny.

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