Tokyo — TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) announces today that global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles have topped the 2-million mark, with more than 2.01 million units sold worldwide as of August 31, 2009. TOYOTA: News Releases > Worldwide Sales of TMC Hybrids Top 2 Million Units Ken@Japan
Talk about acceleration: 129 months to go from 0 to 1 million cumulative sales. 15 months to go from 1 to 2 million cumulative sales.
What I like is this chart: From: Green Car Congress: Toyota Global Cumulative Hybrid Sales Top 2M You'll notice 2007 and 2008 had the same, total numbers. I have no doubt that every hybrid that could be made was sold. This was the battery limit in graphic form. I'm hoping 2009 ends with a higher step up with more battery production coming online. Bob Wilson
This is true and even more apparent if you pro-rate the current sales this year to projected end-of-year sales. Then, for the last 3 years, we would have perfectly flat sales within <2%. Clearly , sales would have been higher if something (batteries) were not truncating them to 430,000 units. Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 0 Year Sales 1 2007 429 400 2 2008 429 700 3 2009 437 600
I'll get in trouble, but... For now, NiMH is the traction battery of choice, and production is limited. Under these conditions they save more overall fuel consumption when used in hybrid vehicles, compared to pure EVs. :behindsofa: PS: it still blows my mind (do people still say that?) that the Sudbury deposit fell to Earth as a meteorite 1.85 billion years ago. And God Said "Here, you're going to need this later". (probably get in trouble for that too)
