GEORGETOWN – (TNS) As part of a multi-year, long-term investment in manufacturing hybrid cars, Toyota is putting more than $204 million and 82 new jobs in Kentucky.

The investment and new jobs will make the Japanese automaker’s largest global plant in Georgetown able to add and staff an all-new manufacturing system to make engines compatible with hybrid vehicles by 2027.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky is Toyota’s largest vehicle manufacturing plant in the world and produces between 550,000 and 600,000 vehicles annually, according to the automaker.

More than 14 million cars have rolled off Kentucky assembly lines since the plant started production in 1988.

Now, full-time employment at the 9-million-square-foot plant is approximately 9,950 people who make the Camry Hybrid, RAV4 Hy

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