Toyota Aims to Boost July-September Output Despite Disruptions

  • Automaker plans to produce an average of 850,000 units a month
  • Maintains full-year production forecast at 9.7 million units

Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles bound for shipment at a port in Tokai, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg
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Toyota Motor Corp. aims to boost July-September production by 40% from the same time last year, despite continued fallout from Covid-related supply disruptions.

The world’s top-selling automaker plans to make an average of 850,000 vehicles a month in the July-September quarter, up from 605,783 units a year earlier, it said in a statement Wednesday.