ŠKODA AUTO production sites reopen for tours

› 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

Mladá Boleslav, 9 June 2022 – After being closed for more than two years due to the
coronavirus pandemic, ŠKODA AUTO is now reopening its Czech production facilities to
visitors. The guided tours of selected plant areas and final assembly are ideal for school
groups and families with children aged ten and over. The tours are offered in various
languages, including Czech, English, German and Dutch.

Andrea Frydlová, Head of the ŠKODA Museum, emphasises: “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 allelectric 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.”

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.