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It was something that many had predicted so the fact that the Toyota Hybrid has hit the 1 million car sales should not be totally surprising. Though the current economic indicators are a factor that many seem to count as hindrances towards allowing Toyota to achieve success, it seems to have had little impact on the hybrid sales as far as the U.S. is concerned.

US sales of Toyota’s hybrid cars have surpassed the one million mark, the Japanese carmaker said, highlighting the rising popularity of ecological vehicles.

It took seven years for Toyota, the world’s biggest carmaker, to sell 500,000 hybrids in the US, but has taken just two years to sell the next 500,000.

“One million hybrids in less than nine years indicates how quickly American consumers have accepted this important technology,” said Jim Lentz, Toyota’s top US executive.

(Source) Birmingham Post

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