Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) will invest $3.6 billion to add a second assembly line for its Tacoma trucks at the company’s manufacturing campus in San Antonio, Texas.
The San Antonio plant is a 2.2-million-square-foot site that currently employs more than 3,700 individuals. Toyota produces its Tundra truck and Sequoia sport utility vehicle at the site, which manufactured 197,506 vehicles last year. Including San Antonio, Toyota currently operates 10 manufacturing sites in the United States.
“The expansion will create 2,000 new, high-quality jobs and add 2.5 million square feet to Toyota Texas, doubling its size by 2030. TMNA will transition Tacoma production from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Baja California (TMMBC) to the expanded Toyota Texas plant over an approximate four-year period,” Toyota said in a July 6 statement….