FROM DAILY MAIL: Japanese car giant Toyota will build more of its vehicles at American plants.
Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, said two new EVs will be made in Georgetown, Kentucky.
Both SUVs — based on the best-selling RAV4 and the boxier Land Cruiser — will have three rows of seating.
The move comes as part of Toyota’s ongoing effort to shift manufacturing to the US and sidestep tariff-related cost increases.
GM, Ford, Volkswagen, and Hyundai are also shifting their production plans to the US to avoid the 25 percent tariff President DOnald Trump imposed on all foreign-made cars and their parts in March.
“President Trump has had meetings with both domestic and foreign auto producers, and he’s committed to bringing back auto production to the US,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in April.
“So we want to give the automakers a path to do that, quickly, efficiently, and create as many jobs as possible.”
The electric vehicles the Japanese automaker plans to build in Kentucky will be based on the RAV4 and the Land Cruiser, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. https://t.co/t0EANJLat1
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