A New Assembly Line, 2,000 New Jobs and a 2.5-Million-Square-Foot Campus Expansion Bring Toyota’s Total San Antonio Investment to $8.3 Billion Since 2003
According to Fox Business, Toyota is investing $3.6 billion to expand its San Antonio, Texas assembly plant; building a second vehicle assembly line, creating approximately 2,000 new jobs, and transitioning some Tacoma pickup production from its Baja California plant in Mexico to Texas over the next four years.
The expansion will add about 2.5 million square feet to the San Antonio manufacturing campus, effectively doubling the site’s size by 2030 and bringing Toyota’s total investment in the facility to $8.3 billion since construction began in 2003.
The expanded plant will assemble the Tacoma alongside the Tundra and Sequoia, and is expected to grow Toyota’s San Antonio workforce to approximately 6,000 employees supported by 23 onsite suppliers. Toyota will continue producing Tacomas at its Guanajuato, Mexico plant. Production at a new rear axle facility is also expected to begin later this year.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed the expansion qualifies for a $20 million state grant through the Texas Enterprise Fund and JETI programme. President Trump celebrated the announcement on Truth Social, writing: “Toyota is moving from Mexico to the United States (Texas!). Tariffs at work!”
Toyota’s announcement is a direct consequence of tariff pressure and it is one of the more concrete examples of reshoring producing measurable investment. The question for the industry is whether 2,000 jobs and $3.6 billion is the beginning of a trend, or a one-off strategic repositioning ahead of the next tariff review.
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