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Due to the impact of semiconductor supply, Toyota recently announced that it will suspend 11 production lines at eight plants, including the Motomachi plant in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, starting next month, which will lead to a direct decline of 150,000 units in Toyota's production in February this year, and Toyota's previous target of 9 million vehicles will be difficult to achieve.
It is understood that since August 2021, due to the new crown virus and the supply of accessories and other issues, Toyota has successively suspended the production of 27 production lines in 24 factories in Japan, with a direct decline of nearly 50%, and then, because of the continuous impact of the epidemic in Southeast Asia, last October, Toyota's 27 production lines in Japan continued to be in a state of suspension, which directly led to a sharp decline in production capacity.
On December 15, Toyota announced its production plan for January 2022 and announced that its production target of 9 million vehicles in fiscal year 2021 will remain unchanged! However, unfortunately, at the beginning of 2022, there was a new crown pneumonia epidemic in Tianjin, and the three FAW Toyota plants in Tianjin have officially stopped production recently, and according to the information previously released, these three factories can contribute up to 470,000 vehicles per year.
More importantly, Toyota has built a spare parts factory in Tianjin to supply factories in other regions, and its suspension may further affect Toyota's production capacity.
On January 20, FAW Toyota Corolla Ruifang will be officially released online, and this model born under the TNGA C architecture is likely to be produced at the TNGA plant in the Tianjin Development Zone, and if the Tianjin plant continues to stop, then the delivery time will inevitably be affected.