As high temperature and dry weather in Sichuan and other places in China continued and the power supply situation was severe, Toyota Motor and Ningde Times announced that local factories had discontinued production due to electricity limit.
According to Bloomberg, Toyota Motor spokesman Shiori Hashimoto said that the local government instructed the company to suspend production by A factory in Chengdu, Sichuan.The annual output of this Chengdu plant in Toyota is about 30,000, including Toyota Prado.
In addition, the Sichuan Yibin Battery Factory in Ningde Times due to power -limiting production, the time to limit production was stopped from August 15 to August 20.
Sichuan is one of the most populated provinces in China. It depends on hydropower and is particularly susceptible to high temperature and drought weather. At the same time, the demand for air conditioning has increased, and the dam reservoir is exhausted.Sichuan is an important manufacturing center, and it is also important for the production of polysilicon and lithium materials.