Overview
- Toyota announced Monday that it will spend $3.6 billion on a 2.5 million sq. ft. addition at its San Antonio campus to add a second assembly line and move most U.S.-market Tacoma production from its Tijuana plant to Texas.
- The expansion will raise annual capacity at the San Antonio site from about 200,000 to roughly 350,000 units, add about 150,000 vehicles of output, and create roughly 2,000 new jobs as the campus grows toward an estimated 6,000 workers by 2030.
- Toyota said the Tacoma transfer will be phased over about four years and that the Guanajuato plant in Mexico will continue to build Tacomas, leaving the long-term use of the Baja California facility undecided.
- The project qualifies for Texas incentives including a $20 million Texas Enterprise Fund grant and follows Toyota’s broader pledge to invest up to $10 billion more in U.S. operations through 2030.
- Company and industry coverage ties the timing to recent U.S. tariff and USMCA review changes that raise costs for Mexico-assembled vehicles, a policy pressure that analysts say is prompting reshoring and could force redeployments or new roles for Mexican plants.