Toyota plant churns out Prius to meet hot demand -- but plans to open US factory on hold

[cwerdna]

(Hope this isn't a repost...)
Toyota plant on a roll with hit Prius - Yahoo! Finance

[bwilson4web]

Interesting:

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Toyota officials said the two plants were making about 50,000 Prius cars a month, running at full capacity. The Tsutsumi plant was churning out one Prius every 66 seconds in one line, and every 57 seconds in the other line. Reporters toured the plant Friday.
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Workers from other factories from as far away as the southwest island of Kyushu are helping out at Tsutsumi, plant official Takahiro Fujioka said, while declining to say how many. The plant currently has about 5,300 workers.
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The production numbers are impressive. No one knows how long it will be sustained but in the 6 months remaining, they are looking at a minimum of 300,000 Prius in addition to what has already been built. They have a good chance of producing 1 million Prius by the end of next year.

So let's have some fun and ask the hybrid skeptics, How soon Toyota will go bankrupt with these numbers?

Bob Wilson

[patsparks]

I just forwarded this to the major Australian newspapers. Why is the Australian car industry in the slow lane when hybrids are going by in the fast lane? Oh, that would be it, no one manufactures hybrids here even though GM-H developed a hybrid family car back in 2000 but never went into production.
Holden unveils ECOmmodore, Australia's first `green' car  -  24/5/00
The CSIRO are a government funded agency so my tax dollars went into this venture but nothing came out of it. It even had electric AC, an electric water pump and solar powered cooling fans! Sound familiar?