on Wednesday said it expects operating profit to climb 10 per cent this business year, with a five-fold jump in pure electric vehicle sales amid an easing in global supply chain disruption from a shortage of chips.
Toyota forecast operating profit would rise to 3.0 trillion yen this business year, in line with an analysts’ average forecast of 3.02 trillion yen. But Sato said the demand for purely battery-powered vehicles in China largely represented a new need in the market and was separate from demand for hybrid vehicles.The profit target has been helped by a weak yen boosting the value of overseas sales, and higher output volumes that outweighed the impact of surging materials costs. Reflecting the impact of the weak yen, revenue for the business year that ended in March this year grew to a record 37.15 trillion yen.
“We expect an increase in sales volume in all regions and production volume of 10.1 million , due to such factors as … improvement in semiconductor supply,” Toyota said in a statement. That would represent output growth of 11 per cent versus the previous year.