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Toyota sold a million hybrids in last nine months, 6M since 1997
By Sebastian BlancoRSS feedGoogle+
Posted Jan 15th 2014 10:45AM
Toyota's first hybrid model the Prius went on sale in 1997 in Japan. It took 14 years for the company to see a cumulative total of three million hybrids (a mark reached in March 2011). Today, Toyota announced that its global sales figures of all of its gas-electric models (and there are a lot of them now, including ones we've barely heard of here in the US, like the Crown Majesta or the Harrier Hybrid) have reached six million. Toyota calculates that all those hybrids have saved 41 million tons of CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere.
Toyota's ever-increasing hybrid sales pace means the company sold as many in the last three years as it did in the first fourteen. As you can see in our chart, the trendline shows that we'll hit the next-million mark in short order. In fact, Toyota says that it sold a million hybrids in the last nine months, the shortest time it has ever taken the automaker to sell that many hybrids. Part of the reason is that there are 24 hybrid Toyota and Lexus models available around the world, and Toyota says another 15 will be coming in the next two years. Anyone want to guess when Toyota will hit seven million? August?
Toyota Hybrid Sales Chart
http://green.autoblog.com/2014/01/15/toyota-sold-million-hybrids-in-last-nine-months-6m-since-1997/
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)In Japan, that's the model name. In the US, it's the Lexus RX400H. Same vehicle, different name. I believe the Crown Majesta is also a Lexus model.
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)I'm quite pleased with it.
I put on a heavier front sway bar, a rear sway bar and a cold air intake. During the summer months I average 52~55 MPG on the highway.