Škoda Group
Solutions for Modern and Sustainable Mobility
This article first appeared in the Railway-News Magazine, Issue 3 2022.
The group focuses on producing and developing vehicles for rail and public transport. Its products mainly include suburban train units, electric locomotives, low-floor trams, metro trains, trolleybuses, electric buses, electric motors, personal coaches and complete drives for environmentally friendly public transport.
Thanks to the ecosystem of production sites, plants, repair services and engineering offices, the top-notch work of more than eight hundred design engineers, chief project engineers and designers and millions of euros invested in its own research and development every year, Škoda Group has a product portfolio of modern vehicles that meet the latest European standards. The company pays a great deal of attention to the use of cutting-edge technologies for modern public transport and railway vehicles.
Škoda vehicles are in operation in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, France, Finland, Poland, Italy, Mexico, the USA and more countries around the world.
Škoda currently employs over 7,000 people. In addition to the Czech Republic production sites and technology centres, Škoda Group has branches in Germany, Finland, Hungary and Poland. Škoda is currently developing railway vehicles and buses with alternative propulsion.
Škoda Group provides comprehensive transport solutions for cities, intercity transport and mainline railways and continues to work to ensure that travelling anywhere is comfortable, fast, environmentally friendly and safe.
