Skoda celebrates a significant milestone at its Mlada Boleslav plant

Skoda is celebrating a very special milestone in its hometown, with the 15 millionth car from Mlada Boleslav rolling off the production line at Skoda's main plant on 5 March 2021, with the milestone model being an Enyaq iV in Arctic Silver Metallic.

Automotive production in Mlada Boleslav dates back to the company Laurin & Klement, which later became Skoda Auto. In 1905, the founders Vaclav Laurin and Vaclav Klement decided to stop building bicycles and focus entirely on manufacturing motorbikes and automobiles.

The historic factory halls from which the first automobile of the company, the Voiturette Type A, rolled out, still stands today, and they have housed the Skoda Museum for several years.

On the other side of the road is the modern car plant, where around 29,100 employees currently produce six model series, the Fabia, Scala and Octavia, as well as the SUVs Kamiq, Karoq and the all electric Enyaq iV. To manufacture the Enyaq iV, the company converted an existing production line, adapting it for Modular Electrification Toolkit-based vehicles.

This means this is the only line in the entire Volkswagen Group that enables simultaneous production of models based on both the MEB and the Modular Transversal Toolkit (MQB)

This innovation reflects Skoda's continuous modernisation of its production sites. The focus is on Industry 4.0 practices, digitalisation projects and automation. Even before the joint production line for MQB and MEB models, for example, the manufacturer commissioned an ultramodern paint shop with a capacity of up to 168,000 bodies, creating more than 650 new jobs in the process.

At the beginning of 2021, Skoda opened a new Central Pilot Hall at its corporate headquarters for work on pre-series vehicles. Shortly before that, the centre for building test carriers and prototypes went into operation.

In addition to vehicles,Skoda also produces engines, the MQ100 and MQ200 manual transmissions and axles in Mlada Boleslav, as well as high-voltage batteries for the plug-in hybrid models of several Group brands. In February 2021, the 100,000^th traction battery left the site's production line.