As the Covid-19 epidemic continues to burn, on the one hand, it has suffered from the shortage of automotive semiconductor chips, and in recent years, major automakers have faced the phenomenon of extended waiting period for new cars. Timing came to the beginning of 2022, recently Toyota also announced that due to the shortage of automotive chips/parts, The next month Toyota's factories in Japan will reduce production/stop work, so many new car production capacity will be affected, on the one hand, the global production plan will be reduced from the original 700,000 units to about 150,000 units next month, down to 550,000 units.
A total of eight Toyota Japan plants will be temporarily suspended in February, with the first to be the Tembel plant and the Takaoka plant (producing Toyota Corolla Sport, Camry, Prius, Prius PHV, RAV4, Lexus ES, etc.), which will have a greater impact on domestic consumers, and will be shut down on February 12 and 2/19. Next, the Tahara plant, which will assemble and produce Lexus IS, LS, RC, RC F and some NX series, will be shut down for a total of four days next month (2/4, 2/11, 2/12, 2/19).
Finally, the Kyushu Miyata plant, which was shut down for up to ten days, was responsible for assembling NX, NX PHV, CT, UX, UX300e pure electric models, and it is rumored that the delivery period of Lexus NX, Toyota Camry, Lexus ES and other car series that has just been launched is expected to be postponed, and domestic new car buyers may have to be mentally prepared. However, the original factory reiterated on the official website that it will continue to work closely with parts suppliers in the future, hoping to meet the needs of consumers everywhere in the future.