Toyota, standing behind the Prius, was the first company to mass produce a successful hybrid vehicle in the United States. The Prius launched in Japan in October 1997 and made its way to America by July 2000, and over the next few years the company would launch several other hybrid models. On this day in 2009 Toyota announced that it has sold its one millionth gas-electric hybrid in the US under its six Toyota and Lexus brands. More than 700,000 of them were Priuses, which was more than half of all the Priuses sold worldwide by that time.
Other hybrid models sold under the Toyota umbrella at the time included the Lexus RX 400h, the world’s first hybrid luxury vehicle. Toyota followed this up with the Highlander hybrid in June 2005. Two years later, on April 6, 2011, Toyota announced it had sold its one millionth Prius in the United States.
1947 Packard Super Custom (Not the actual 1,000,000th Packard. By Rex Gray- fvr2, CC BY…
Since its inception, the Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class (R170) has epitomized the essence of a compact luxury…
The C4 Chevrolet Corvette, which debuted nationally on this day in 1983, marked a significant…
By Alexander-93 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=132180377 On April 16, 2014, the vibrant…
On this day in 1964, two days before the official Ford Mustang on-sale date, one…
Skoda Fabia VRs. By Andrew Bone from Weymouth, England - Skoda Fabia vRS, CC BY…