Toyota produced 692,000 vehicles in April, down 9.1% year-on-year

May 30 news, Toyota Motor said on Monday that Aprilcar productionwas 692,259 vehicles, down 9.1% from a year earlier; global car sales in April were 763,708 units, down from a record 859,448 units a year ago, down 11.1% year-on-year. %.

Japan's Toyota Motor Corp lowered its June globalproductionplan for the second time in a row.This time, Toyota will reduce its planned production by another 50,000 to 800,000 vehicles, due to the shortage of parts caused by the spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic.

Japan's largest automaker said it would build 200,000 vehicles in Japan and 600,000 overseas in June.For the current fiscal year (April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023), Toyota still expects its global production to reach 9.7 million vehicles, although it "may" lower its expectations later.

In addition, Toyota also said that it will continue to suspend the operation of 16 production lines of 10 factories in Japan in the week of June 6, and the production loss caused by this additional suspension to Toyota is 50,000 vehicles.Earlier, between May 25 and June 3, the company also announced that some Japanese factories would suspend production.