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Toyota has announced it is celebrating a new milestone in its quest of selling as many hybrids as possible.
The Japanese corporation has sold over nine million hybrids since the beginning of the project. As of April 30, 2016, Toyota Motor Company’s cumulative sales figures of hybrid models has reached 9,014 million units, easily surpassing the significant milestone.
What’s more impressive about the latest feat of Toyota’s hybrid range is the fact that the company achieved the new milestone just nine months after its latest multi-million total.
The deployment of Toyota hybrid cars instead of conventional vehicles of similar size and driving performance is estimated to have saved the Globe from approximately 67 million tons of CO2 emissions.
Instead of using just conventional propulsion systems, the hybrid cars sold by Toyota and its brands have saved the planet from the combustion of approximately 25 million kiloliters of gasoline.
We’ll let you do the conversion to gallons on that last one, but we provide a quick conversion tip: one kiloliter means 1,000 liters, which is the equivalent of 264,000 gallons.
The figure presented above is an estimate of Toyota Motor Company, as it is impossible to quantify the direct benefit. The appraisal is based on the number of registered hybrids, their distance traveled, fuel efficiency, and a CO2 conversion factor. Toyota has sold its first hybrid model back in August 1997, and hasn’t skipped a beat since.
However, the Japanese corporation wants to do more than just sell as many hybrids as possible. The biggest automaker from the country of the rising sun has announced the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050, a plan that wants to reduce the negative impact of automobiles of global environmental health. Toyota intends to lower the described damage as close as possible to zero, in an effort to create a sustainable society.
The next plan for Toyota is to sell 1.5 million hybrid vehicles a year, as well as to reach a cumulative sale figure of 15 million hybrids by 2020. At the rate at which Toyota is expanding its hybrid car portfolio, we believe this is a reasonable objective.
What’s more impressive about the latest feat of Toyota’s hybrid range is the fact that the company achieved the new milestone just nine months after its latest multi-million total.
The deployment of Toyota hybrid cars instead of conventional vehicles of similar size and driving performance is estimated to have saved the Globe from approximately 67 million tons of CO2 emissions.
Instead of using just conventional propulsion systems, the hybrid cars sold by Toyota and its brands have saved the planet from the combustion of approximately 25 million kiloliters of gasoline.
We’ll let you do the conversion to gallons on that last one, but we provide a quick conversion tip: one kiloliter means 1,000 liters, which is the equivalent of 264,000 gallons.
The figure presented above is an estimate of Toyota Motor Company, as it is impossible to quantify the direct benefit. The appraisal is based on the number of registered hybrids, their distance traveled, fuel efficiency, and a CO2 conversion factor. Toyota has sold its first hybrid model back in August 1997, and hasn’t skipped a beat since.
However, the Japanese corporation wants to do more than just sell as many hybrids as possible. The biggest automaker from the country of the rising sun has announced the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050, a plan that wants to reduce the negative impact of automobiles of global environmental health. Toyota intends to lower the described damage as close as possible to zero, in an effort to create a sustainable society.
The next plan for Toyota is to sell 1.5 million hybrid vehicles a year, as well as to reach a cumulative sale figure of 15 million hybrids by 2020. At the rate at which Toyota is expanding its hybrid car portfolio, we believe this is a reasonable objective.
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