According to Clean Technica, the current production target for the Japanese car manufacturer in April is 750.000 cars, compared to the initial 900.000 target.

Toyota blames the chip shortage and the COVID-19 pandemic for lowering the production.

Earlier this month, the automaker said it wanted to scale back domestic production by 20% for the spring months in order to let their suppliers breathe a bit.

The company hinted that current plans could be revised later, and that the current situation was hard to predict earlier.

Kazunari Kumakura, Toyota executive, announced that vehicle production for May and June will de 10% lower, up from 5%, which was the estimate at the beginning of 2022. Akio Toyoda, CEO of Toyota, said that the months between April and June will be considered as a cooling-off period.

Toyota, who has a plant in Russia, said it was having logistical difficulties there ever since the sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army.

Kumakura said that the production issues between April and June aren't related to this and also stated that the company didn't suffer any impacts from the situation in Ukraine, but the company analyzes potential short and long-term risks.

Toyota plans to come out with several new EV models before the next decade, one of them being the 2023 BZ4X.