Toyota Motor Corp. has asked two Japanese megabanks to set up a credit line totaling 1 trillion yen ($9.2 billion), company sources said Friday, a move that signals the carmaker is struggling with rising funding costs in the market due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Toyota made the request with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and MUFG Bank, the sources said.

==Kyodo

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