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continued to grow until 2011. is was helped by the ramp-up of production at the Hyundai plant and stable demand for small cars from the TPCA plant. ese in uences outpaced the decline in production at Skoda Auto by almost 100,000 vehicles between 2007 and 2009. Smaller declines in car production in the Czech Republic occurred in 2012 and 2013, driven by declines in production at both Skoda Auto and TPCA and a halt in Hyundai’s production growth in 2013. In the 2020 COVID year, production at the Hyundai plant declined the most, by 23%. is was followed by Kolín-based Toyota (-22%), with the relatively smallest decline ending in 2020 for Skoda Auto, as its production fell by 17% compared to 2019. Compared to the pre-2019 forecast, Skoda Auto’s production was still down 5% in 2023, while Toyota’s was down 8% and Hyundai’s was up 10%. Nearly 1.4 million passenger cars rolled o of domestic production lines in 2023, just 3% below the record level of 2018. Fig. 3.4: Production of passenger cars and small commercial vehicles in the Czech Republic by manufacturers

Source: Czech Automotive Industry Association; TPCA renamed to TMMCZ from 2021 Production of electric cars in the Czech Republic took o signi cantly in 2021. In 2023, a total of 180,887 passenger cars with pure battery drives and plug-in hybrids were produced in the Czech Republic. Electric cars accounted for almost 13% of the total production of passenger cars in the Czech Republic. 60% of the production of electric cars in the Czech Republic was accounted for by Škoda Auto, and 40% by Hyundai.

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