And if a new plan unveiled by top engineers and scientists in Japan this month pans out, it’s about to in a big way.Īutomotive News has the dispatch about how Toyota’s whole manufacturing system is undergoing a revamp for the battery EV era of cars. But the market, customer demand and public and private investments are trending heavily toward battery EVs, so it’s got every business reason in the world to want to catch up. Toyota’s EV skepticism hasn’t been without its merits, in my book. Robots, Gigacasting, Batteries, And More Robots: The New Toyota Way Photo: Toyota

Or do donuts in a parking lot? Either’s fine with me. That’s our lead story on today’s morning news roundup, along with the latest on Infiniti besides smells, another investigation into a Ford quality issue and why the United Auto Workers union would be pissed about Ford’s big battery loan. Now it’s 2023, and that dog is having to learn new tricks-this time from Tesla and China’s automakers. Being more than 30 years old, it shows its age in some unavoidable ways-the Korean automakers get written off pretty early on, for example-but it’s a fascinating and prescient read about how the Toyota Production System transformed the car industry.

Lately, I’ve been reading The Machine That Changed The World, the 1990 book about how Toyota’s lean manufacturing system reinvented how cars got built around the world.

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