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Toyota announced that the factory would stop production again. Toyota said on Monday that it would suspend production at five Japanese plants in January, citing the supply chain crisis, chip shortages and the COVID-19 epidemic, according to media reports.

It is understood that the announced shutdown plan will affect the normal production of about 20,000 vehicles. However, Toyota stressed that it would not affect its annual production target of 9 million vehicles. On December 15th Toyota announced its production plan for January 2022. Toyota said it planned to produce 800000 vehicles worldwide in January 2022, while its target of 9 million in fiscal year 2021 (April 2021-March 2022) remained unchanged.

In fact, in addition to Japan, Toyota has also suffered a big impact in the US market, and last week Toyota said it expected North American production to fall to 50,000 in January because of supply chain problems.

It is worth noting that Toyota, the world's largest carmaker, has repeatedly announced production cuts because of a lack of cores this year.

Toyota repeatedly announced the suspension of production in the second half of this year alone. In August this year, Toyota announced that due to the insufficient supply of spare parts caused by the COVID-19 epidemic in Southeast Asia, global production in September would be reduced from 900000 to 540000. In September, Toyota released again, and a total of 27 production lines at 14 factories in Japan were shut down in October. On Oct. 15, Toyota said it would cut production in November because of a shortage of car chips, reducing earlier production plans by 100000 to 150000 vehicles. Global production is expected to be between 850000 and 900000 vehicles in November, and as recently as December, the affected capacity is about 5500 vehicles.

The lack of core and problems in the supply chain have also led to a sharp drop in Toyota's production and sales. According to the latest monthly production and sales data released on Toyota's website on November 29th, Toyota's global sales volume in October 2021 was 677564, down 20.1% from a year earlier, especially in the Japanese domestic market, where Toyota sold 84705 vehicles, down 41.3% from the same period last year. Global production fell 25.8 per cent year-on-year to 627452, with Japan's domestic market falling 50.9 per cent to 151918.

In addition, in order to solve the supply chain crisis and optimize costs, Toyota also announced the use of defective parts, Toyota pointed out: "without affecting vehicle performance and safety," willing to use worn or defective parts from suppliers. "

Of course, apart from Toyota, other car companies have previously announced production cuts or stops for the same reason, including Honda, General Motors, Ford, BMW and so on. According to data provided by AFS, as of December 5, the global car market has lost a total of 101.22 million vehicles due to chip shortages, of which China has reduced production by nearly 2.15 million due to lack of core or production. At present, the global shortage of automotive chips is still serious, in the short term, the shortage of chips will continue to affect the automotive industry, but people in the industry say the shortage of automotive chips will not be a long-term phenomenon. As for when Toyota will resume production at the five factories in Japan, Toyota has not yet disclosed the exact time point.

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