Toyota to spike Prius production by 60% by 2009
Posted Mar 28th 2008 9:12AM by Sam Abuelsamid
Filed under: Hybrid, Manufacturing/Plants, Toyota
Contrary to some recent speculation that Toyota might be capacity constrained when it comes to producing producing Priuses. It looks like the onset of an
all new third-generation Prius next January (along with a Lexus badged companion) has triggered Toyota to invest in some more capacity at the two Japanese assembly plants that build them. After building 280,000 Priuses in 2007, an increase of thirty-three percent, next year's production should jump another sixty percent. It's not known if those 450,000 units of volume will be dedicated to Prius or if they will also include the new Lexus dedicated hybrid model. Either way it will go a long way toward meeting Toyota's long term goal of producing a million hybrids a year by 2020.
[Source:
GreenCarCongress]
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1. I would generally give Toyota credit for having a pretty good handle on what their future demand will be. All the same, that's a BIG increase. I hope they're right (if all the new cars as clean as the Prius).
Posted at 11:37AM on Mar 28th 2008 by GoodCheer