Tokyo--TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) appear today on its website http://www.toyota-media.com that common accumulative sales of the Toyota Prius--the world's aboriginal banal gasoline/electric amalgam vehicle--have anesthetized the 1 actor mark, with about 1,028,000 units awash as of the end of April this year*1. Currently, Prius sales are able-bodied in added than 40 countries and regions, decidedly in Japan and North America. Please accredit to the absorbed blueprint for added advice on Toyota Prius Sales.
Brussels, Belgium -- Tokyo--TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) appear today on its website http://www.toyota-media.com that common accumulative sales of the Toyota Prius--the world's aboriginal banal gasoline/electric amalgam vehicle--have anesthetized the 1 actor mark, with about 1,028,000 units awash as of the end of April this year*1. Currently, Prius sales are able-bodied in added than 40 countries and regions, decidedly in Japan and North America. Please accredit to the absorbed blueprint for added advice on Toyota Prius Sales.
Based on sales abstracts calm up to April 30, 2008, TMC believes that Prius cars common accept contributed to a abridgement in CO2 emissions (considered a could cause of all-around warming) by bearing about 4.5 actor tons*2 beneath CO2 if compared with gasoline-powered cars in the aforementioned chic and of agnate admeasurement and active performance.
The Prius was launched in Japan in 1997 and began affairs in Europe, North America and added markets in 2000. In 2005, Toyota began aboriginal across assembly of the Prius in Changchun, China, and sales of Prius cars in South Korea are accepted to activate in the closing bisected of 2009.
In 2003, the second-generation Prius, able with the Toyota Hybrid System II, was alien with bigger ecology achievement and power. In August 2007, Prius G, S and S "Standard Package" Japan models accomplished a ammunition ability of 29.6km/l in the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's anew alien JC08 analysis cycle. (The Prius S and S "Standard Package" models accomplished 35.5km/l in the earlier 10-15 analysis cycle.) The Prius is aswell one of the aboriginal cars to accommodated the new 2015 Japanese ammunition ability standards set out beneath the Law Concerning the Rational Use of Energy.
As allotment of its acute environment-management policies, Toyota has fabricated a concerted accomplishment to advance and popularize amalgam technology, chiefly through the Prius. And as amalgam technology can be activated to a advanced ambit of vehicles, Toyota aims to advertise 1 actor or added amalgam cars annually as aboriginal as accessible in the 2010s.
*1. Based on TMC data.
*2. Number of registered cars ambit catholic absolute ammunition ability in anniversary country CO2 about-face factor
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