Where's my car? Toyota buyers face long waits due to hybrid boom

Where's my car? Toyota buyers face long waits due to hybrid boom

Soaring demand for Toyota's gasoline-electric hybrids has left suppliers struggling to keep pace, leading to shortages of parts and months-long waits for car buyers, according to four people familiar…

Toyota's Hybrids Are In High Demand. Too Bad Nobody Can Get One.

Toyota's hybrid sales are exploding globally, but parts shortages are causing massive delivery delays of up to nine months in key markets.

The shortage of components for Toyota hybrid vehicles is unlikely to be resolved in the short term, as the global component chain could be further disrupted by new US import taxes.

While mobility is moving towards electric cars, whose sales are increasing; hybrid cars represent a transition option that, for now, generate many more sales. And if there is a synonymous brand of hybrid cars, that’s Toyota. The problem is that the demand for these cars has grown so much that there are problems in their production, and that generates huge waiting times, up to nine months for certain Toyota models in India. Toyota Corolla was the…

Electric car sales figures in the world are still quite variable, although with a tendency to grow. Sales volumes are not growing as fast as automakers themselves would like, but still. Meanwhile, Toyota has other difficulties - the demand for hybrids in the world is so great that the Japanese automotive giant cannot cope. Currently, Toyota dealerships in Europe, North America, Japan and China have few stock cars, which...

The number of customers ordering Toyota hybrid cars increased, while the supply chain of some components was disrupted leaving Toyota production short of time for sale, with many customers waiting for months or even years.