Published every six months, our CEE Automotive Report analyses economic, demand, powertrain and infrastructure trends across the Central and Eastern European automotive market. One of the report’s key findings is that the CEE region can no longer be seen as simply a catching-up market. Several indicators show the region has recovered faster than the EU average, although increasingly significant differences are emerging between individual countries. Poland and Croatia have clearly moved beyond pre-pandemic volumes, while the Czech Republic and Hungary have essentially returned to their 2019 baseline levels. Austria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia remain below pre-Covid levels.
One of the core messages of the AutoWallis CEE Automotive Report 2026H1 is that the Central and Eastern European automotive market is no longer a single, uniform story. While electric mobility is accelerating rapidly in some countries, in others the primary growth drivers remain motorization and fleet renewal. The winners in the coming years are likely to be market participants who see this diversity not as an obstacle, but as an opportunity.
