Both Honda and Toyota, two of Japan’s auto giants, seem to have recovered from their disruption in supply chain of auto parts. Both of the company’s could recover sooner than expected. According to reports, production at plants of Toyota and Honda are likely to recover to normal, after both companies were forced to halve their productions in April.
According to industry experts, their productions are likely to reach normalcy levels by July, August. Toyota, who lost their leading manufacturing position this year to GM, said that their global output declined by 47.8% in April to 308,555 models, in comparison to the same period, a year back.
Honda meanwhile said that their production decreased by 52.9%, whereas Nissan reported a decline of 22.4% in production. Toyota reportedly said that it expects production at its overseas and home markets to return to 70% of its normal production rate in June, whereas Nissan said that they expect full production capacity recovery in October.
Honda, meanwhile expects to make a recovery by year-end, however it said that this was in their worst case scenario. They also said that their assembly plants in North America will not touch full production capacity till August in regards to most of their vehicles. Their high volume Honda Civic compact model will require even more time to return to normal production levels.