Toyota hybrid sales top one million units

Toyota Motor said yesterday that its hybrid vehicle sales in Japan had topped the one million mark and worldwide it had sold 2.68 million of the vehicles by the end of July.

Toyota, the front-runner in hybrid cars that use two power sources — a gasoline engine and another source such as an electric motor — launched the Prius, the world’s first mass-produced hybrid car, in 1997.

Toyota plans to expand its hybrid range to 8 new models by 2014 - 15.

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