For several decades Škoda has been supporting a competition devoted to economic travel, the main aim of which is to achieve the lowest possible fuel consumption during regular operations while maintaining a sufficiently high speed. The company also lays great emphasis on providing education in ecological matters and is very active in organising special courses and training for drivers. It supports the project "ECODRIVE(n)", which is being developed at present by the Centre for Effective Energy Utilisation in the Czech Republic (SEVEn).

In 2006 the Germany auto club ADAC included Škoda Auto in its eco-tests for the first time, which it carried out for higher and medium classes of cars, and the Octavia and Superb both attained very respective results in their respective categories.

Even though newly designed vehicles are heavier and larger in order to make them safer, the level of CO2 emissions has remained the same or even dropped against previous models. As well as this Škoda Auto has reduced the amount of emissions produced by its power station by 5.5 million tons, i.e. to half of the permitted limit. It has also invested USD 110 million in more ecological technology. For instance, 20% of combusted fuel will be biomass.

In terms of a cleaner, greener environment, the ambition of the new Fabia is obvious from the level of CO2 emissions across the entire new range. These stand at the limit of 140 g/km, which was attained in 2007. This is a year earlier than this figure was stipulated under the terms of the agreement between car manufacturers and the European Union. The new Fabia 1.4 TDI produces only 120 g CO2/km, which is much less than the promised 140 g/km for the following years. It is also interesting that while the new Fabia is larger than its predecessors, it produces fewer CO2 emissions than on average in its class. Dust particle facilities (DPF) also contribute to a cleaner environment and are available on the diesel engines 1.4/59 kW and 1.9/77 kW.