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kristopher

(29,798 posts)
Sat Jan 18, 2014, 11:57 PM Jan 2014

Toyota sold a million hybrids in last nine months, 6M since 1997

Toyota sold a million hybrids in last nine months, 6M since 1997
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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/

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Toyota sold a million hybrids in last nine months, 6M since 1997 (Original Post) kristopher Jan 2014 OP
They mention the Harier Hybrid... Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2014 #1
I bought a 2010 Prius in December 2010 and unhappycamper Jan 2014 #2
 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
1. They mention the Harier Hybrid...
Sun Jan 19, 2014, 12:08 AM
Jan 2014

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)
2. I bought a 2010 Prius in December 2010 and
Sun Jan 19, 2014, 06:52 AM
Jan 2014

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.

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