Toyota Sells 9 Millionth Hybrid Car

Toyota's hybrid vehicles select saved their owners 25 billion litres of petrol - plenty fuel, theoretically, for each of their cars to move about the Earth... as well as and thus some.

The calculation was revealed past times the world's leading carmaker when it announced it has sold to a greater extent than than nine meg Toyota as well as Lexus hybrid vehicles about the world, including to a greater extent than than 85,800 delivered inward Australia.

The latest milestone, achieved inward April, comes equally Toyota Commonwealth of Australia prepares to innovate its newest hybrid, Corolla, early on inward the minute one-half of this year.

Toyota's rear companionship inward Nippon has revealed that the total fuel saving from its nine meg hybrids represents an average of to a greater extent than than 2,770 litres per vehicle compared amongst driving petrol-only cars of like size.

The saving would render plenty fuel for each of those vehicles to move at to the lowest degree 52,400km, or 1.3 times about the equator, based on a nominal average consumption of 5.3 litres per 100km. Three-quarters of the nine meg hybrids role less than this amount of fuel.

Instead of doing that, of course, Toyota's hybrid owners select pocketed billions of dollars inward savings.

Toyota has also estimated its hybrid vehicles select resulted inward to a greater extent than or less 67 meg fewer tonnes of CO2 emissions than would select been emitted past times petrol-powered vehicles of like size as well as driving performance^.

Toyota Australia's executive managing director sales as well as marketing Tony Cramb said the extent to which hybrid vehicles had constitute homes inward driveways about the public confirmed them equally a mainstream selection for motorists.

"Toyota's hybrid vehicles are renowned for their performance, reliability, durability as well as exceptionally depression running costs equally good equally their contribution to the environs as well as to saving precious fossil fuels," Mr Cramb said.

"In Australia, nosotros are looking forwards to bringing Toyota's total hybrid applied scientific discipline to the country's best-selling car, Corolla - a deed that volition farther broaden the marketplace set appeal of both," he said.

Corolla hybrid hatch volition go introduced equally a well-specified unmarried grade, expanding the local company's Hybrid Synergy Drive offerings to a 5th model.

It volition bring together Camry, which is the best-selling hybrid vehicle inward Commonwealth of Australia amongst 37,879 deliveries - most double the Prius gibe of 19,682 cars - followed past times Prius c (7,432) as well as Prius v (3,430).

Globally, Toyota's total is led past times the world's best-selling hybrid, Prius, amongst 3.7 meg sales since its debut inward Nippon inward Dec 1997. Prius c has reached 1.25 meg sales, Prius v 634,000 as well as Camry hybrid 574,000.

While it took 10 years for Toyota to attain ane meg global hybrid sales, it has sold viii meg inward the past times nine years as well as has averaged to a greater extent than than ane meg hybrid sales a yr since 2009.

The company's hybrid vehicles are sold inward to a greater extent than than xc markets.

Toyota has positioned hybrid advances equally center environmental technologies for the 21st century. Using these technologies, Toyota is also working on improving non-hybrid cars.

TOYOTA HYBRID MILESTONES

9 million	April 2016
8 million	July 2015
seven million	September 2014
half dozen million	Dec 2013
v million	March 2013
four million	Apr 2012
three million	Feb 2011
ii million	August 2009
1 million	May 2007

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