Toyota Motor Corp. will eliminate next year a production line for hybrid cars at its main Motomachi plant in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, company officials said Friday.
It will be the first time in 10 years Toyota has cut a domestic production line.
The move is aimed at streamlining the company's operations by shifting more resources to overseas production and by curtailing domestic production amid falling demand in Japan, the officials said.
Production of hybrid cars -- environmentally friendly vehicles powered by both gasoline engines and electric motors -- will be transferred from the Motomachi plant to other production sites in Japan, they said.