Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA) is an automobile

Automobile

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 manufacturing and research and development

Research and development

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 company owned by Toyota Motor Company. It is the result of a merger of Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America (TMMNA) and Toyota Technical Center, U.S.A. (TTC) in April 2006, and has its headquarters at the former TMMNA headquarters in Erlanger, Kentucky

Erlanger, Kentucky

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Predecessor companies

TMMNA opened in 1996 and oversaw all Toyota manufacturing concerns in North America

North America

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. The company employed 1,055 with an annual payroll of $113.1 million.

TTC opened in June 1977, and is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...

. TTC employs 728 people in four states. The company is engaged in engineering design and research and development

Research and development

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Toyota factories:

• Bodine Aluminum, Inc.
• NUMMI
  NUMMI
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• TABC, Inc.
  TABC, Inc.
  TABC is a manufacturing plant in Long Beach, California. Established in 1972, TABC is the oldest Toyota North American manufacturing company. A subsidiary of TEMA , the plant occupies . It is the primary supplier of parts for the Toyota Tacoma truck sub-assembly...
  
  
• Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama, Inc. is a truck engine factory near Huntsville, Alabama, United States. It is owned and operated by Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan...
  
  
• Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. is a Canadian automotive manufacturer and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation...
  
  
• Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California S. de R.L. de C.V is an automobile manufacturing plant in Tecate, Tijuana; Baja California, Mexico. The plant was established in 2002. The plant is a...
  
  
• Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana, Inc. is an automobile manufacturing factory located nearly halfway between Princeton, Indiana and Fort Branch, Indiana, USA...
  
  
• Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Inc. is an automobile manufacturing factory in Georgetown, Kentucky, USA. It is part of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America , owned by Toyota Motor Company of Japan....
  
  
• Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi is a Toyota manufacturing facility in Blue Springs, Mississippi. It will be the eighth North American vehicle assembly plant for Toyota .The plant was originally going to produce the Toyota Highlander beginning in 2010, but production was...
  
  
• Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas, Inc is an automobile production subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation based in San Antonio, Texas, USA which owns and operates a manufacturing and assembly facility for the parent company...
  
  
• Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia
  Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia is a Toyota Motor Corporation factory in Buffalo, West Virginia. It is estimated to date, the company has spent nearly US$1 billion to build the automobile engine and transmission plant...
  
  

Subsidies

Toyota has received a little over a billion USD in federal, state, and local government tax subsidies and incentives including:

• $323.9 million in subsidies for the plant in Tupelo from Mississippi taxpayers.
• $371 million in subsidies for the Georgetown plant from Kentucky taxpayers.
• $227.5 million in subsidies and tax incentives for the Tundra plant by Local, Texas, and U.S. taxpayers.
• $125 million (Canadian) in subsidies to help cover research, training and infrastructure costs.
• $29 million in subsidies for the Huntsville Engine plant by Alabama taxpayers

Hybrid-electric Vehicles

Buyers of hybrid-electric passenger vehicles each received tax credits of $3,150 per vehicle sold in the United States. This amounted to at least $189 million for the 60,000 Toyota Prius cars sold.