Toyota Hybrid Car Reach 2 Million

It took ten years for Toyota to sell one million hybrid cars. But only two years and 3 months to double that figure. Until August 2009, total sales of Toyota hybrid car since the Prius was launched in 1997 reached 2.01 million units.

Of that amount, the Toyota Prius from three generations contribute 1.4 million units or 71% of total sales. Camry Hybrid is the second best-selling model that is more than 167,000 or 8.3%. Lexus RX400h/450h in one after another as many as 146,000 units or 7.3%


The high demand for third-generation Prius, introduced the first half of this year to help accelerate the achievement of this milestone. Throughout August, Toyota sold 21,669 Prius units in Japan, while maintaining its position as the biggest-selling brands as reported by Japan Automobile Dealers Association. Third-generation Prius became the best-selling car in Japan in the last four months.

Greencarcongress.com data, in Europe, Toyota Motor Europe sold more than 200,000 units, which separunya sold in the last 2 years. Total sales of cars Toyota and Lexus hybrid vehicles in Europe since it was launched first in 2000 was 202,126 units.

With 2 million units sales of hybrid vehicles, Toyota has a big contribution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Since 1997, the total reduction reached 11 million tons of CO2 emissions compared to gasoline engines produced by the size and the same Performance.

Toyota currently sells 13 models in a hybrid car around 50 countries around the world, including three commercial vehicle. Until August 31, Toyota sold 2,016,900 million units of hybrid cars in the world. The first Toyota hybrid car is a minivan Coaster Hybrid EV, which was launched in August 1997, while the Prius in December 1997.
Dalam jangka panjang, Toyota menargetkan menjual satu juta unit mobil hybrid pertahun yang diharapkan tercapai pada pertengahan dekade mendatang, dan menyiapkan satu model hybrid di semua model Toyota pada 2020.