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Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia: Introduction

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Every Toyota built in North America has, at some point, contained a piece of West Virginia. Engines and transmissions roll off the lines at Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia (TMMWV) in Buffalo, West Virginia, and ship to Toyota assembly plants in Kentucky, Indiana, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Mexico - nearly a million units a year, fitted into Camrys, RAV4s, Highlanders, Tacomas, and the rest of the lineup. The plant has been operating since 1998. It is one of the largest non-coal industrial employers in the state, an outcome that would have seemed nearly impossible when the coal industry began its long contraction in the 1990s and West Virginia went looking for what would come next.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia: Buffalo, West Virginia

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Buffalo is a small town in Putnam County, set on a bench above the Kanawha River about twenty-five miles west of Charleston. The TMMWV site sits on the floodplain, a rectangular industrial campus visible from the air for miles - acres of bright roofs, parking lots, rail spurs, an...

Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia: What the Plant Builds

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

TMMWV does not build cars; it builds the machinery inside them. The current engine lineup includes the 2.4 liter T24A turbocharged inline-four, which started production in 2022 and goes into the latest Crown and Lexus NX models, and the 2.5 liter A25A inline-four that powers the ...

Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia: The 2021 Expansion

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

In February 2021, Toyota announced a $210 million investment to expand engine production at Buffalo, adding capacity for an additional 70,000 engines per year and creating about a hundred new jobs. The expansion was framed by the company as a response to growing demand for the A2...

Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia: What It Means to Build Things Here

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The TMMWV plant sits in a state whose economic story has been dominated for more than a century by coal. The decline of coal employment over the past three decades has been a defining political and social issue for West Virginia, and the question of what kind of work follows it r...