Guided tours are again offered to the public at ŠKODA AUTO’s Czech plants

Guided tours are again offered to the public at ŠKODA AUTO’s Czech plants

• After over two years without visitors due to the pandemic, the car manufacturer’s Czech plants are reopening their doors to the public.
• Guided tours are ideal for families with children aged ten and over; online booking on the ŠKODA Museum website

(PRESS RELEASE) MLADÁ BOLESLAV, 9-Jun-2022 — /EuropaWire/ —ŠKODA AUTO, one of the world’s oldest car makers and Czech Republic largest private company part of Volkswagen Group, has announced the reopening of its Czech production facilities to the general public after being closed for more than two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. School groups and families with children aged ten and over are welcome and can rely on guided tours of selected plant areas and the final assembly. The tours are offered in various languages, including Czech, English, German and Dutch.

“We are delighted to finally be able to offer our factory tours again after more than two years. It’s worthwhile visiting because our plants have changed a lot in that time. In Mladá Boleslav, for example, we’ve started producing the all-electric ENYAQ iV family as well as MEB battery systems, and in Kvasiny we’ve continued to systematically modernise the production facilities. Meanwhile, the Vrchlabí plant became ŠKODA AUTO’s first CO₂-neutral production site at the end of 2020,” commented Andrea Frydlová, Head of the ŠKODA Museum.

The only requirement for a guided tour of the Mladá Boleslav plant is to pick up a ticket from the ŠKODA Museum. The admission for a guided tour in Czech is 180 CZK; for a plant tour in other languages, it is CZK 260. Guided tours at the Kvasiny and Vrchlabí sites are free of charge. The tours, which last around two hours, are often accompanied by the carmaker’s former employees.

The tours are aimed at technology enthusiasts as well as school classes and families with children aged ten and over. The ŠKODA ENYAQ iV family, the manufacturer’s first all-electric production models based on the Volkswagen Group’s Modular Electrification Toolkit (MEB) are now rolling off the same production line in Mladá Boleslav as vehicles with combustion engines based on the MQB. To achieve this, ŠKODA AUTO made major adjustments to the production line. The production of battery systems for various Group brands’ MEB vehicles has also recently been launched at the main plant, making Mladá Boleslav the only location in Europe outside Germany where these battery systems are manufactured.

Around 7,000 employees currently produce the SUPERB and SUPERB iV models as well as the KAROQ and KODIAQ in Kvasiny. By relocating the new-generation SUPERB to Bratislava, capacities will be created at the site for an additional 150,000 units of the SUV series KODIAQ and KAROQ.

The Vrchlabí plant plays a central role in component production for ŠKODA AUTO. This is where the DQ200 automatic direct-shift gearbox is produced; in early February this year, the four millionth DQ200 gearbox left the assembly line since production started in October 2012. Since the end of 2020, the site has been the Czech carmaker’s first CO₂-neutral production facility.

To go on a guided tour of the Mladá Boleslav plant, you must wear sturdy shoes without high heels and have your own vehicle with a free seat for the tour guide. The ŠKODA Museum can arrange a minibus for groups of up to seven people by prior agreement. For each of the three production sites, tours can be booked in advance on this website. Visitors can find out about the rules that apply on the factory premises here.

Media contact:

Jens Katemann
Head of Communications
e: jens.katemann@skoda-auto.cz
t: +420 326 811 778

SOURCE: ŠKODA AUTO a.s.