Toyota Motor North America plans a major expansion of its manufacturing presence in San Antonio, committing $3.6 billion to enlarge its existing Toyota Texas campus. The project will add a second vehicle assembly line dedicated to supporting production of the Tacoma truck, significantly increasing the facility’s output capacity over the next several years.
The expansion will add approximately 2.5 million square feet to the campus, with Toyota targeting a doubling of the plant’s overall size by 2030. As part of this growth, the automaker expects to create 2,000 new jobs, marking a substantial increase in on-site employment tied directly to the enlarged manufacturing footprint.
Toyota will gradually consolidate Tacoma production at the San Antonio facility. Over an estimated four-year period, Tacoma manufacturing is slated to shift from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Baja California to the expanded Toyota Texas plant. This transition is intended to streamline production of the truck within a single, larger-scale campus.
The San Antonio site already operates one vehicle assembly line and is preparing to bring a new rear axle plant into service. The additional assembly line funded by this latest investment will further build out the integrated manufacturing complex. Toyota indicates that the expansion is designed to provide greater operational flexibility through advanced manufacturing technologies and to better align the plant with the automaker’s broader North American production network.
With this commitment, Toyota’s cumulative investment in its San Antonio operations will rise to $8.3 billion, measured from the time the company broke ground on the facility in 2003. The local workforce at Toyota Texas is projected to reach approximately 6,000 team members once the expansion is fully implemented.
The campus is also supported by 23 on-site suppliers and their employees, reflecting a broader ecosystem of manufacturing and logistics activity clustered around the plant. As the new assembly line and rear axle plant come online, that supplier network is expected to play an ongoing role in supporting the expanded production platform for Tacoma and related components.
