Toyota City, Japan, May 22, 2012 Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles have topped the 4 million mark as of April 30. read more Ken@Japan
4,000,000 Sold and Counting 4,000,000 Sold and Counting 4,000,000 Sold and Counting - CleanMPG Forums :cheer2: That is an article in CleanMPG about Toyota's proven Hybrids which hit another sales milestone in April 2012. Read it for a complete overview of Toyota's advancements in hybrids.
Re: 4,000,000 Sold and Counting It would be interesting if we could find out what percentage of the 4 mil are still running?
Re: 4,000,000 Sold and Counting Keep the Tsunami in mind, but here is the worldwide Toyota hybrid sales growth from 2001 - 2012. If growth levels out to 20% every year, good things are in store for Toyota.
Re: 4,000,000 Sold and Counting 4,000,000 cars are a drop in a bucket [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile]Automobile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
Re: 4,000,000 Sold and Counting But that drop is getting bigger and bigger. And adding in other hybrids and EVs makes the drop a bit bigger yet.
Re: 4,000,000 Sold and Counting Only a few drops of coloring & flavoring in a bucket of water completely transforms it.
The FL_Prius_Driver conglomerate announces that its cumulative purchases of hybrid vehicles is three. (Those three drops completely fill our bucket.) Think of how much gas was not burned by those 4 million. No drop in the bucket there.
I did some digging and found this Toyota Sells One-Millionth Prius in the U.S. As of 4-5-11 97% of all Prii sold in America are still on the road, according to Toyota.
I've been counting them as a proportion of non-truck vehicles since 2008 in the Boston area, and the proportion of Prii on the roads have gone up with remarkable consistency. I actually counted all readily identifiable high MPG cars (Prii (all gens) Insights (all gens) and Smarts), but Prii made up the vast majority of these (over 90%). My summed N is around 3.5 million, of which 50k or so were Prii. Yes, I'm sick. All of the places I sampled have increased steadily, with a 3 fold increase over the 3 year period. the relevant files are attached for your amusement Interesting how locale rules - Lowell (which is still fairly blue collar and is not wealthy) has a frequency of around a third of that seen in the expected hotspot for Boston (northwest suburbs, including Cambridge and Concord). The overall rate (including anything spotted on trips to other East coast loci) has gone up proportionally also. I saw more Prii in San Francisco (on a trip in March) than the Boston rate - I think SF (1 car in 20 or so) even beats Cambridge (which is around 1:25 these days). The Midwest (Iowa City to Chicago) looked more like Lowell when I went there in 2008.
What I have noticed in the last few weeks, is that on average I spot a Prius for every mile I am driving. Might see none for 5 miles, then glance over at a parking lot, etc and see 2 parked. Then I have had many behind me, or in front. The best part is when you can see 5 or more in your vision at one time. one in rearview, one passing you and one in front, and then two passing in the other direction. If 97% are still on the road, then that is why they are increasing and taken over' I filled my bucket to the rim with Prii and i'm drunk!
There are 2,000 lbs in a ton. A gallon of gasoline produces 20 lbs of CO2. That means Toyota hybrids have saved 2.6 billion gallons of gas. That's without substituting gasoline with another form of energy (electricity). Gallons saved by the mean of efficiency.
~ 4 million Prius on the road 15,000 miles a year per car ~ 0.1 kg a km CO2 saved 1000 kg per metric ton ---- 10 million metric tons CO2 saved a year
The Hybrid Inventor Who Sued Toyota - And Won | Autopia | Wired.com At 4 million sales, I'm guessing that represents about $8,000,000 for Mr. Severensky ... who (although it's an out of court settlement amount) supposedly is getting about $2 per car. I think the lost law suit is the reason Ford is no longer going to make it hybrid escape . . . it falls under the same pattent infringement settlement.
