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GEORGETOWN, Ky. (July 21, 2021) – Age really is just a number at Toyota’s first wholly owned vehicle plant in North America. Toyota Kentucky (in Georgetown) recently produced its 10 millionth Camry, representing one of America’s best-selling vehicles of all time. The white 2021 Toyota Camry SE rolled off the line to cap a milestone year for the plant, which also celebrated 35 years of operation in the Bluegrass State. “It gives us a great sense of pride to imagine where our 10 million […]

NEW YORK (July 12, 2021) – Most known for their winter and spring migrations spanning more than 3,000 miles, the monarch butterfly is a small but key component to the ecosystem in terms of food and its role as a pollinator. “The Flight of the Monarch Butterfly – The Pollinator Project” will explore the latest science, learnings and the species’ survival issues in its world premiere Sunday, July 25 at 8:30 a.m. (ET/PT) on Discovery, Thursday, July 29 at 5 p.m. (ET/PT) on the Science […]

About Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK) Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK) is Toyota’s largest vehicle manufacturing plant in the world, annually capable of producing 550,000 vehicles and more than 600,000 engines. Toyota broke ground in Georgetown, KY., in May of 1986 and two years later (May 1988) produced its first Camry. Since then, more than 12 million vehicles have rolled off Toyota’s assembly lines in Kentucky, where full-time employment is more than […]

Company Profile Foundation: June 1, 2001, SOP 2003 Plant site: 334 acres in Huntsville, AL Plant size: 1 million square feet Investment: $1.2 billion Employment: 1,400 Products and 2020 Production Volume 537,143 engines produced 700,000 capacity 4-cylinder (RAV4, Corolla) V6 (Tacoma) V8 (Sequoia, Tundra) Investments, Jobs and Production 7 major investments (5 building expansions) since groundbreaking in The latest $288 million investment will provide new 4-cylinder and V6 engine lines to expand […]

President:                   Kevin Voelkel Groundbreaking:        October 2003Start of Production:    November 2006Investment:                $3 billion since 2003 On-Site Suppliers:       23Campus Site:                2,000 acresSquare Footage:          2.2 million Toyota; 2 million On-Site Supplier Employment:                3,200 Toyota team members; 4,000 On-Site Supplier team members Annual Capacity:          208,000 […]

Technical innovations are swiftly evolving across the automotive industry and women engineers are increasingly leading the charge. In fact, recent U.S. Department of Education¹ statistics² cited by the Society of Women Engineers report a 58% increase in bachelor’s degrees awarded in engineering and computer science to women — from 2012 (25,900) to 2017 (40,876). Women’s entry into the field of engineering is growing and fast. Take, for example, that in 2018, there were 136,233 […]

Developing and refining technology designed to reduce the likelihood and severity of crashes is only one step on the road to improved safety. Getting that technology into the hands of customers is also important. It’s one of the reasons why Toyota was one of 20 automakers that entered into a voluntary agreement in 2016 with the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) that requires Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) on more than 95% of the vehicles an OEM builds by fall […]

INDIANAPOLIS (June 22, 2021) – The Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF), Energy Systems Network (ESN) and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), have joined with May Mobility, a leader in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology and shuttle operations, to launch a free autonomous shuttle service in Central Indiana.   The free service, a part of TMF’s Together in Motion Indiana, began June 1, and serves the downtown Indianapolis and Indiana […]

PLANO, Texas (June 22, 2021) – A front-row seat to adventure in the next-generation 2022 Toyota Tundra. Sign up to get the latest updates for the 2022 Toyota Tundra here. #Tundra   The post Adventure on the Horizon With the All-New 2022 Tundra appeared first on Toyota USA Newsroom. Visit @Toyota ACCESS to receive your news via e-mail.Update your RSS feed preferences.

PLANO, Texas (June 21, 2021) – Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) today announced that Brian Kursar, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), TMNA and Toyota Connected North America (TCNA), has been promoted to group vice president, Digital Technology. Kursar will remain CTO for both TMNA and TCNA. In his new role, Kursar will lead global digital transformation and technology modernization strategy aligned with software and cloud-first principles and the adoption of a data-driven culture across Toyota. […]