Toyota Motor Corporation announced that in September they surpassed 7 million hybrid vehicles sold, making them the global leader in hybrid sales.
“In 2000, Toyota introduced its Prius hybrid to the U.S., a marquee vehicle that established mainstream adoption of hybrid technology. Today, Toyota and Lexus hybrid sales in the U.S. are well over 2 million, and the Prius is on its way to becoming the no. 1 selling vehicle in California for the third year in a row.”¹
In the U.S., Toyota (and Lexus) offers 12 hybrid models and one plug-in model, which account for 70 percent of industry hybrid sales. The Prius is the bestselling hybrid vehicle in history, with over 3 million units sold since its introduction.
All of these hybrids on the roads have led to a reduction of CO2 emissions by an estimated 34 million tons, which the release equated with “taking 4.8 million vehicles off the road for an entire year.”²
And now Toyota has a new goal: to sell 5 million more hybrids in the US by 2016. Can we do it? It’s up to the customer.
Read the full Toyota USA press release here.
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¹ http://pressroom.toyota.com/releases/toyota+global+hybrid+leader+sales+7mm.htm
² http://www.technologytell.com/in-car-tech/5295/toyota-to-industry-shoot-for-5-million-u-s-hybrid-sales-by-end-of-2016/