Toyota’s hybrid vehicle sales have reached 2 million. It took the Japanese Auto Manufacturer almost 10 years to reach the 1 million mark for hybrid vehicles sold. It only took 2 years and 3 months to reach the next million. All 3 generations of the Toyota hybrid vehicle, the Prius is responsible for 1.4 million of those units. Toyota has been selling hybrid vehicles since 1997. The Japanese Auto Manufacturer claims that this has contributed enormously to reduction of carbon dioxide emissions on the planet. Toyota claims that the 2 million hybrids sold by them have resulted in 11 million tons of CO2 not being released (by conventional gasoline driven cars) into the atmosphere. The company currently sells 13 different hybrid models in 50 countries worldwide. The Toyota Prius has been the top selling vehicle in Japan for the last 4 months. It will be a while before hybrid cars will truly be part of the fabric of society. To my knowledge no major releases have been announced for hybrid cars in South Africa, but I could be wrong. Who knows? Maybe 10 years from now all of us will be looking in the classifieds to find a 2nd hand hybrid. Maybe electric cars / hybrid cars / green cars will fail and we will all be stuck without transportation and take up the art of walking as a past time instead.
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Toyota – Official Website
