“We are committed to investing in the U.S., and our teams are ready to take on this new challenge.”

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“We have been with Toyota every step of the way since engine production began in 2003, and we’re looking forward to building an even more exciting future together. ”

With this investment, Toyota Alabama will create a new four-cylinder production line with the capacity to produce engines for both combustion and hybrid electric powertrains.

Additionally, the footprint of the 1.3 million-square-foot Huntsville facility will expand by 114,000 square feet, which marks the plant’s sixth building expansion and its eighth investment project since opening in 2003.

“Toyota has been a great partner for Alabama, and its expansion projects at the Huntsville engine plant have always played an important role in the world-class automaker’s growth plans,” Governor Kay Ivey said.

“This significant new investment in Alabama will once again help power Toyota’s strategic efforts to prepare for the future in a fast-changing industry.”

Last October, Toyota marked the opening of a new twin-turbo V6 engine line following a $288 million expansion project that also added 450 jobs at the Huntsville plant, the largest hiring need in Toyota’s history in Alabama’s. The new line also produces a hybrid electric version of the twin-turbo V6 engine.

The project’s hiring boosted the plant’s total employment to 1,800 and increased production capacity to 900,000 engines annually.

Overall, the plant represents a $1.5 billion investment for Toyota, counting the new project.

“Toyota has become a pillar in Alabama’s automotive industry over the past two decades, and this latest milestone represents another important development in the automaker’s strategic growth plans for the Huntsville facility,” said Greg Canfield, Secretary of the Alabama Department of Commerce.

“We have been with Toyota every step of the way since engine production began in 2003, and we’re looking forward to building an even more exciting future together,” he added.

The Huntsville plant is among Toyota’s largest engine facilities globally and the automaker’s only one in the world to build 4-cylinder, V-6 and V-8 engines under one roof. It has produced 8 million engines since the facility opened.