Toyota to Invest $3.6 Billion to Double San Antonio Plant, Add Tacoma Line and 2,000 Jobs

Toyota Motor North America said Monday it will invest $3.6 billion to expand its San Antonio manufacturing campus, add a second assembly line for the Tacoma pickup and create 2,000 jobs, marking one of the region’s biggest recent industrial expansions.

The company said the project will add 2.5 million square feet at Toyota Texas, doubling the size of the campus by 2030. The expansion is designed to support Tacoma production, which Toyota said will shift from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Baja California to San Antonio over an approximate four-year period. When the project is complete, Toyota said Tundra, Sequoia and Tacoma vehicles will all be assembled in Texas.

The move significantly expands the role of a plant that has been a cornerstone of South Texas manufacturing for two decades. Toyota Texas broke ground in 2003 and began production in 2006. Toyota said the San Antonio plant assembled more than 197,000 vehicles last year; the company’s facility page lists 197,506 vehicles in 2025. With the expansion, Toyota said the site’s workforce will rise to about 6,000 team members, supported by 23 on-site suppliers and their employees. The new project will bring Toyota’s total investment in San Antonio to $8.3 billion since construction began.

“Toyota’s continued investment in North America is a testament to our confidence in the region’s workforce, innovation and long-term growth potential,” Ted Ogawa, president and CEO of Toyota Motor North America, said in a statement. “By expanding our San Antonio plant, we are deepening our commitment to American manufacturing, creating meaningful and sustainable jobs, while advancing our mission to deliver high-quality vehicles that meet the changing needs of customers today and into the future.”

Toyota’s announcement is larger than an earlier public filing tied to the same assembly-line project. A spring 2026 application submitted to the Texas Comptroller’s Jobs, Energy, Technology and Innovation program described a roughly $2.0 billion capital investment and a 2030 production start. Toyota’s July 6 announcement put the investment at $3.6 billion. No public explanation for the difference was identified in the available documents.

Local governments had already approved major incentives for the project before Toyota’s public announcement. The San Antonio City Council on June 18 approved a package that included a 10-year, 100% property tax abatement on improvements, a $9.5 million Ready to Work grant, SAWS fee waivers of up to about $4.5 million, and city funding for related road work. City staff and local reporting valued the combined city and utility incentives at about $185.2 million. Bexar County commissioners also approved related tax-abatement actions in June and an initial county contribution of up to $40 million for road work tied to the expansion.

The investment builds on earlier spending at the site, including a previously announced $531 million rear-axle assembly plant that Toyota has said is nearing startup and is scheduled to begin production in fall 2026.

Gov. Greg Abbott cast the latest expansion as another sign of the plant’s importance to the region and the state’s manufacturing base. “Texas is where the world builds bigger, and Toyota shows it once more with a $3.6 billion expansion in San Antonio that doubles their factory footprint and creates 2,000 new jobs,” Abbott said.