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Cumulative global sales of Lexus hybrids pass half-million mark

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The RX 400h, launched in 2005, was the world’s first production full hybrid luxury SUV. The HS 250h saloon was Lexus’s first hybrid-only model, launched in Japan and North America in 2009, since when sales have reached close to 56,000 units. including the Lexus brand—since 1997 topped 4.60 Earlier post.). Global total. %

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Total Sales of Toyota and Lexus Hybrids Top 1M Mark in US

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Toyota plans to introduce 10 new hybrid models between now and 2012 in various global markets, with sales of one million gas-electric hybrids per year, worldwide, sometime early in the next decade. Toyota launched of the Prius in late 1997 in the Japan market, and in the US in July 2000. million vehicles through January of this year.

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