Flight through the ŠKODA World
Flight through the ŠKODA World
What’s Happening at ŠKODA AUTO
Changes to the Board of Directors
Two new faces will join the ŠKODA AUTO leadership on 1 March. Maren Gräf, who previously led the Group’s HR Top Management, will become the Board Member for Human Resources Management. She will replace Bohdan Wojnar, who is leaving his position after 10 years. At the same time, the Czech top manager of the VW Group, Martin Jahn, is returning to the carmaker, taking over from Alain Favey as Board Member for Sales and Marketing.
Commitment to sustainable business
In 2020, the carmaker joined the project and platform of the Czech-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DTIHK), partner companies and institutions named #PartnersForSustainability. To date, the main milestone of this initiative has been the signing of a joint “Driving Sustainability” memorandum. It contains a commitment to further develop sustainable business principles, as well as an appeal addressed to the government and institutions of the Czech Republic to create the conditions that would support companies’ sustainable activities as much as possible.
Sustainable
development is
an integral part
of our business
activities.
You can read the details of this memorandum on ŠKODA Space.
Anniversary battery for plug-in hybrids
The carmaker produced the 100,000th high-voltage traction battery carmaker at its Mladá Boleslav plant in February. From there, the batteries go to plug-in ŠKODA, Audi, SEAT and Volkswagen hybrid cars. In 2019, ŠKODA AUTO invested more than EUR 25 million (approximately CZK 650 million) in production operations, including state-of-the-art testing equipment to ensure compliance with the strictest safety and quality standards.
months after the start of battery production in Mladá Boleslav was enough to exceed the goal of 100,000 units.
Models and services
An app that protects against danger
The new Traffication application introduced by ŠKODA AUTO can draw attention to risky situations in traffic, including unintentionally driving the wrong way. It is currently available for the SUPERB, KODIAQ, KAROQ, KAMIQ and SCALA models equipped with their top infotainment systems based on the third-generation Modular Infotainment Matrix. It will become available for other models throughout the year. The application runs in the background and alerts the driver with a message on the central display only in the event of impending danger – such as a parked vehicle. The carmaker plans to gradually expand the scope of its functions.
Read at ŠKODA Storyboard
The new ENYAQ SPORTLINE iV
A sporty and dynamic variant has been added to ŠKODA’s electric SUV range. A lowered sports chassis and striking black details characterise the exterior and interior of the ENYAQ SPORTLINE iV. It offers a choice between three powertrain variants, the most powerful of which features two electric motors with a combined output of 195 kW and all-wheel drive.
Find more about ENYAQ SPORTLINE iV at ŠKODA Storyboard
Bigger and safer FABIA
The fourth generation of the popular hatchback will soon be introduced. ŠKODA AUTO has now presented pictures of the car from the covered drive and revealed several details. The new FABIA will be 110 millimetres longer, and its boot capacity will increase by 50 litres to 380 litres. It also has a wide range of powertrains to choose from between 48 kW and 110 kW.
Find more about new FABIA at ŠKODA Storyboard
How we are perceived by
Auto Express (1. 2. 2021)
SCALA 1,5 TSI 110 kW DSG
Final score
3,5/5
The drive unit works very smoothly, and you will hear it more distinctively only at very high speeds.
smooth and agile engine operation with sufficient torque,
reliable infotainment with many functions,
large baggage compartment and plenty of space in the rear seats
the interior, which has a lot of hard plastics, is not very pleasant to touch
worse price/performance ratio than the lower SCALA model variants
News from the Group
Almost completely recycled batteries
Volkswagen Group Components has opened its first electric car battery recycling plant in Salzgitter, Germany. Besides recovering valuable materials such as lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt from discarded batteries, the plant will also sort aluminium, copper and plastics. The long-term goal is to recycle up to 90 percent of battery materials. In the pilot phase, the plant will process up to 3,600 battery systems per year with a total weight of approximately 1,500 tonnes.
Even lower CO2 emissions
In 2020, the VW Group managed to significantly reduce the average amount of CO2 emissions of the new passenger car fleet in the European Union thanks to its electric offensive. The emission values decreased by approximately 20 percent to 99.8 g/km. Thus, the Group missed the limit set for 2020 by a small margin, mainly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The key to reducing emissions lies in the share of electric cars and plug-in hybrids in total sales, which reached 9.7 percent in the Group last year – more than four times as high as in 2019. As a result, the Volkswagen and Audi carmakers met their CO2 emission limits for the new passenger car fleet as expected. This year, the new ŠKODA electric and hybrid cars should also play a greater role in meeting the limits.
In the next issue of ŠKODA Mobil
30 years with the VW Group
You can look forward to the topic of the merger with the VW Group, which took place in 1991 and played a major role in making the Mladá Boleslav carmaker one of the top players on the global market. Read how the Czechoslovak company joined the German carmaker and what has changed since then.
On 12 February, the 400,000th ŠKODA car was produced in Nizhny Novgorod, and the KODIAQ model was the anniversary car. Czech cars have been produced by the Russian plant since 2012; at present, the OCTAVIA and KAROQ models are also rolling off the line there.