Automotive News reports that Toyota is putting plans to build Prius hybrids at a plant in Mississippi on indefinite hold due to the financial problems plaguing the auto industry:
 

Toyota Motor Corp. is freezing its plan to build Prius hybrids in the United States as it battles a collapse in global profits by cutting spending.

Toyota’s board reached the decision late today, Japan time, to halt the $1.3 billion project near Tupelo, Miss., “due to the steep decline” in the United States. Toyota has no timetable on resuming construction, spokeswoman Barbara McDaniel said. The plant will build the Prius when the project resumes.

The article notes that this partially due to lower gas prices decreasing demand for the Prius, the most popular hybrid car in the country. November sales of the vehicles were only 8,660 in the U.S., down from 16,737 last year.