Toyota is pushing ahead with its altnernative-fuel business despite the bloody nose the comany has suffered from the recalls this year and last.
Even the fact that the top-selling Prius hybrid was caught up in Toyota's recall mess hasn't stopped the Japanese carmaker from dominating the hybrid market.
Toyota plans 5 million cumulative hybrid sales by 2015(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it wants to reach cumulative sales of 5 million hybrid vehicles in the early part of this decade.
Toyota, the pioneer in gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles, said earlier this month it had sold more than 2.68 million hybrid vehicles globally since it launched the first model in 1997.
The best-selling Prius and other models have received a boost in Japan especially in the last year thanks to government subsidies that favor hybrids over other fuel-efficient cars.
Read more on Toyota's Prius plans.
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