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Soon Toyota hosted its inaugural Hybrid World Tour event in Ypsilanti, Michigan, just later on from Ann Arbor in which the Japanese manufacturer has an investigation and development facility.

Toyota pulled together every car it currently produces that‘s either a hybrid, battery electric vehicle or fuel cell from world wide. That meant the US-market Camry rubbing bumpers using the spectacular Alphard minivan, and also the British-built Auris models sitting side-by-side using the sumptuous Lexus 600h L. Throughout the conference-style event, many of the company's global top brass reflected on the event from the hybrid vehicle market that Toyota helped to foster using the introduction of the initial petrol-electric Prius in 1997. Underlining Toyota's ongoing resolve for the hybrid cause, there was fighting talk from Bob Carter, Senior Vice President for Automotive Operations, who issued challenging for the remainder of the car industry to embrace hybrid technology to a similar extent. suggestion:inch,inches.

We believe so strongly in this… that weve consistently encouraged the industry to expand the usage of hybrid technology, 15 years following the arrival of what some have characterised as 'a science project', We‘re seeing this happen. In the last five years, the percentage of hybrid sales at Toyota has grown from 10 to 16 per cent in our total sales mix. Ford is lower than three per cent and Honda is lower than two per cent.  Our product line is much more than twice as large as other manufacturer so we currently account for longer than 60 per cent of US hybrid sales and 70 per cent from the nearly three million hybrids on US roads today.

And though hybrid like a percentage of the entire marketplace is slightly below four per cent, we believe it can, and must, grow. Therefore, I believe it’s appropriate to provide a good-natured challenge towards the auto industry. onmouseou Toyota has now sold greater than 5 million hybrids globally. I want to see us, being an industry, accomplish a similar thing inside the U. S – that‘s five million hybrids inside the US by close of business in 2016.

So exactly what would Toyota's rivals need to do to match the broad scope of their alternatively fuelled vehicle range? Click our picture gallery to view the complete range. Toyota Hybrid World Tour 2013 picture gallery