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Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE: TM) generates frequent news across manufacturing, electrification, technology, and community engagement, making its news flow highly relevant for investors and industry followers. Company announcements from Toyota Motor North America highlight U.S. sales performance, product updates, and major investments, while also reflecting Toyota’s broader role in the automobile manufacturing and manufacturing sectors.
Recent news includes detailed 2025 U.S. sales results from Toyota Motor North America, where electrified vehicles represented 47.0% of total sales volume and 30 electrified options were available between the Toyota and Lexus brands. Other releases describe significant U.S. manufacturing investments, such as a $912 million program across plants in West Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Missouri to increase hybrid capacity and add hybrid-electric Corollas to the production lineup.
News coverage also follows Toyota’s move into U.S. battery manufacturing. A dedicated release announces the start of production at Toyota’s Liberty, North Carolina battery plant, described as the company’s first and only battery plant outside Japan and its eleventh U.S. plant. Additional stories focus on product and technology developments, including the sixth-generation RAV4, which will be offered only as hybrid or plug-in hybrid models, and the 2026 Toyota bZ battery electric vehicle with expanded DC fast charging access and Plug & Charge capability.
Beyond products and factories, Toyota’s news stream features marketing campaigns, concept vehicles such as the Scion 01 Concept, and community initiatives like the Driving Possibilities STEM education program and partnerships with organizations such as Music Will and Boys & Girls Clubs of America. This mix of operational, financial, technology, and social impact news provides a broad view of Toyota’s activities. For ongoing updates on TM-related developments, this news page aggregates company press releases and other coverage in one place.
Toyota (NYSE:TM) reported 2025 U.S. sales of 2,518,071 vehicles, up 8.0% year‑over‑year and 8.3% DSR. Electrified vehicle sales totaled 1,183,248, up 17.6% and representing 47.0% of sales. Toyota division sold 2,147,811 vehicles (up 8.1%) with 1,051,397 electrified units (49.0% share, +19.0%). Lexus achieved its best-ever full-year result with 370,260 vehicles (up 7.1%) and 131,851 electrified sales (35.6%, +7.2%). Q4 totals were 652,195 vehicles (+8.1%); Q4 electrified sales were 290,840 (-1.9%). In 2025 Toyota opened its first U.S. battery plant (nearly $14 billion, up to 5,100 jobs) and invested $912 million across five plants, adding 252 jobs.
Toyota (TM) donated $75,000 to nonprofit Music Will on Dec. 11, 2025 to support hands-on, culturally responsive music education reaching more than 1,000,000 students in U.S. public schools.
The partnership funded student performances at Toyota-sponsored festivals including ONE Musicfest (Atlanta) and Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival (Los Angeles), plus a backstage visit with rising Latin GRAMMY artist ELA Taubert for Verdugo Hills High School students.
Toyota (NYSE:TM) launched a bilingual holiday campaign on Dec 3–4, 2025 featuring two TV spots: "The Holiday Job" (English) and "Running Late" (Spanish). The campaign debuted during NBCUniversal's Rockefeller Center specials and will run across broadcast, streaming, cinema, and digital platforms through December, with additional airings on Sunday Night Football (Dec 7, 14, 21) and placement on Hulu, Disney+, Netflix, Peacock and more.
Toyota highlighted its long partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America, noting >$40M invested to date, and donated $215,000 and a 2025 Tundra to support the organization's work. The Toyotathon December Sales Event runs through Jan 5, 2026.
Toyota (NYSE:TM) published its 2025 North American Environmental Sustainability Report on December 3, 2025, summarizing progress across Carbon, Circular Economy, Water and Biodiversity in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Key disclosed results include 83% of Toyota and Lexus models offered with an electrified option, a 32% reduction in Scope 1 & 2 GHG vs FY2019, >75% cut in on-site single-use plastics, 15% water consumption decline in FY2025 vs FY2024 (40% vs FY2020), and an added 6,185 acres of pollinator habitat (20,616 acres total since 2022).
Toyota (NYSE:TM) announced a $912 million investment on Nov 18, 2025 to expand U.S. hybrid production and create 252 new manufacturing jobs across five plants in West Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and Missouri. Key actions include adding hybrid-compatible engine machining and assembly lines, three new production lines in Tennessee, a new cylinder head line in Missouri, and bringing hybrid-electric Corolla assembly to Mississippi. Several expansions begin production in 2027 with some capacity increases specified for 2027–2028.
Toyota (NYSE:TM) began battery production at a new $13.9 billion plant in Liberty, North Carolina on Nov. 12, 2025, its first battery facility outside Japan.
The 1,850-acre site can reach 30 GWh annual capacity with 14 production lines, and is expected to create up to 5,100 U.S. jobs. Toyota also committed an additional up to $10 billion in U.S. investment over five years, bringing total U.S. investment to nearly $60 billion. Batteries will supply Camry HEV, Corolla Cross HEV, RAV4 HEV and a future U.S.-built 3-row BEV.
Toyota (NYSE:TM) unveiled the Scion 01 Concept on Nov. 4, 2025 — a purpose-built side-by-side (SXS) off-road concept developed by Toyota's North America team and CALTY design. The vehicle pairs a high-output turbocharged four-cylinder hybrid (derived from Toyota trucks) delivering over 300 horsepower with a Silent Mode for EV-only trail driving. Features include exceptional suspension articulation, balanced track width, a nimble footprint, and a first-of-its-kind FIA-compliant cage compatible with SCORE and FIA standards. The Scion 01 is a concept only and will be shown at the 2025 SEMA Show.
Toyota (NYSE:TM) is exhibiting at the 2025 SEMA Show in Las Vegas (Central Hall, Booth 22200) under the theme "Powered by Possibility." The immersive Powertrain Paddock showcases specialty builds across gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell powertrains.
Key displays include the bZ Time Attack Concept EV, Tacoma H2-Overlander Concept, Turbo Trail Cruiser resto-mod, Scion 01 side-by-side concept, RAV4 GR SPORT PHEV prototype body kit and curated Genuine, TRD and AAP accessories.
Toyota (NYSE:TM) unveiled the all‑new 2026 RAV4 arriving as a 100% electrified lineup with Hybrid and Plug‑in Hybrid (PHEV) choices across three designs and seven grades.
Key specs: PHEV up to 52‑mile all‑electric range, 324 net combined hp PHEV output, up to 41 MPG combined (PHEV) and up to 44 MPG combined (Hybrid FWD). Hybrid AWD delivers 236 net combined hp. MSRP starts in the low $30,000s (Hybrid FWD). Hybrid models arrive December 2025; PHEV models arrive spring 2026. New tech includes a 12.3" digital cluster, Toyota Safety Sense 4.0, onboard 5G, and the Arene software platform.
Toyota (NYSE:TM) launched the 2026 Toyota bZ with driving range and performance improvements plus expanded charging access and connectivity as the model reaches dealers Oct. 2025.
Key consumer changes: more than 25,000 additional NACS plugs available via the Tesla Supercharger Network, standard NACS inlet and Plug & Charge for 2026 BEVs, complimentary NACS adapters for 2023–25 bZ4X owners starting in November 2025, and Apple Maps EV Routing support for all 2023‑newer Toyota BEVs via Apple CarPlay.