Toyota said it will spend $912 million at five US plants to expand hybrid production capacity. The plants are in Buffalo, West Virginia; Georgetown, Kentucky; Blue Springs, Mississippi; Jackson, Tennessee; and Troy, Missouri. The spending is the first piece of the up to $10 billion in extra US investment Toyota announced a week earlier. Plant by plant West Virginia gets the largest share, $453 million, to assemble hybrid engines and transaxles from 2027, adding 80 jobs. Kentucky gets $204.4 million for a hybrid-ready four-cylinder engine machining line and 82 jobs. Mississippi gets $125 million to build hybrid Corollas, the first electrified Corollas made in the US. Tennessee gets $71.4 million and 33 jobs for transaxle cases and engine blocks, and Missouri $57.1 million and 57 jobs for cylinder heads. Toyota in the US The five projects add about 250 jobs in all. Toyota said it employs about 50,000 people in the US, has built more than 35 million vehicles across 11 US plants, and expects its total US investment to reach nearly $60 billion.
