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Toyota Australia is celebrating having sold 100,000 hybrid models in Australia, almost 20 years since the original Prius went on sale locally in 2001.
The milestone was reached at end of April 2019 - just before the arrival of the brand’s next hybrid model: the next-generation RAV4.
Due in Australia this month, the RAV4 will be offered in 11 different models, with six hybrid versions set to be offered when it goes on sale.
King of the hybrid models in Australia is the Camry, with more than 55,000 sold to date. The Prius is in second place, with 20,500 sales, followed by the Corolla (10,600), Prius C (9400) and Prius V (4600).
So far in 2019, the petrol-electric Corolla hybrid is accounting for 31.4 per cent of Corolla hatch sales (2957 units), and has edged ahead of the Camry hybrid’s total sales (2298).
Toyota expects hybrid sales to top 10 per cent of its overall sales this year, up from 5.3 per cent in 2018 and 3.9 per cent in 2017.
The company will add two new hybrid models before the end of 2019 - the new Corolla sedan and an updated version of the C-HR small SUV - and likely two more by the end of 2020, which will include the just-revealed Kluger along with the next-generation Yaris, which is expected to replace the slow-selling Prius C.
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