UPDATE: An worker on the RAV4 plant in Woodstock, Ontario, has reached out to tell us that manufacturing of the RAV4 particularly will solely be suspended for six days in all of December, with the crew on non-production for 3 Thursdays and three Fridays solely. Curiously, incomplete RAV4s are usually not wanting semiconductor chips however of panoramic sunroofs.
UPDATE #2: A crew chief on the Cambridge plant in Ontario reached out to us stating that proper now the NX manufacturing just isn’t affected. The NX can’t be constructed with out additionally constructing RAV4′s, so in the event that they’re constructing one, they’re constructing each. There are at the moment 0 days of non-production scheduled in December. The sister plant in Woodstock is the one plant in Canada with any deliberate non-production days, and it is just for 6 days in December. They solely construct the RAV4. The RAV4 can also be constructed within the Kentucky plant within the US. There is no such thing as a recognized main non-production scheduled.
Automakers proceed their restoration from the worldwide provide chain havoc attributable to the coronavirus, and Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, just isn’t immune. Automotive Information has confirmed with the Japanese automaker that it’ll droop manufacturing for a number of standard autos subsequent month as a result of it is missing the required parts to construct them.
The autos affected embody the extremely standard Toyota RAV4, the growing old however nonetheless beloved 4Runner, and a large record of Lexus fashions, such because the GX, NX, UX, and ES.
A complete of 700,000 autos shall be constructed by Toyota in December, 250,000 in Japan and 500,000 at its different services scattered throughout the globe. That will sound like plenty of autos, however that determine has usually been round 800,000 in current months.
