A growing list of automakers hope to restart their assembly lines — some as early as this week — as manufacturers battle to prevent a record sales slump from steepening amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“There is no going back to the normal for the foreseeable future. We have to adjust to the new normal,” said Chris Reynolds, Toyota’s chief administrative officer for North American manufacturing operations. The May 4 restart date is"an opening day, not the day we’re going begin making cars," he noted.
Suggs said Toyota has been networking with other automakers to share best practices for protecting line workers. Volkswagen, which plans to reopen its Chattanooga assembly line on May 3, said it has put in place 90 different steps to protect employees. Detroit’s Big Three have announced similar measures to reduce the risk of the virus spreading.
Nonetheless, Toyota’s Suggs acknowledged, “There’s a really good chance we’ll have a positive case again.” For now, automakers are set to give it a go, at least if they gain approval from states that have initiated lockdowns. One of the challenges they face is that the North American auto industry is highly integrated, so a parts plant remaining closed in one state could idle an assembly line in another. That was underscored recently when a BorgWarner factory in South Carolina was severely damaged by a tornado.
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