Toyota Marks 100,000 Hybrid Sales in Canada

When you offer the largest selection of Hybrid vehicles, it makes sense that you are going to be the automaker who sets the sales records.

Toyota Canada has been in the hybrid market for 15 years now.  Beginning with the launch of the Prius, the world’s 1st mass-produced hybrid the company has continued to offer an ever-expanding list of hybrid products and designs in both their Toyota and Lexus nameplates.  Last week Toyota Canada announced in a press release that recently the 100,000th Toyota hybrid had been sold in Canada, marking a significant sales milestone.

More impressive is the fact that since 2000, nearly 3/4 of all hybrids sold in Canada were either a Toyota or Lexus.  According to Toyota these sales have also had significant environmental benefits as well with more than 600,000 tonnes of CO2 being avoided and over 259 million litres of fuel being saved.

Toyota offers the greatest variety of powertrains among all manufacturers. There are six Toyota and soon to be six Lexus hybrid models available in Canada. From Toyota, there’s the original Prius, Prius v, Prius c, Prius Plug-in, Camry Hybrid and Highlander Hybrid. Lexus’ largest lineup of luxury hybrids in the world includes the CT200h, ES300h, GS450h, LS600h, and RX450h, which is manufactured by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada in Cambridge, Ontario. And coming soon, the Lexus NX 200h will be introduced to Canada.

While not all automakers have adopted hybrids as their primary approach to reducing overall global fuel consumption and carbon emissions, Toyota seems content to focus on building what they know well, and apparently sell best.

Eric Novak

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Eric Novak is a father of 4 who also thinks that environmental stewardship is a requisite of parenting. He's not a professional Dad nor is he an environmental scientist, but he's someone who gives a damn and is trying to make the right decisions as he lives his life as a father, environmentalist, part time professor and business owner. Eric has 4 children and resides in Ajax, Ontario.