Australian motorists who bought a Toyota hybrid vehicle last year are expected to save on fuel as well as emit much less carbon dioxide.
The 27,846 Toyota hybrid vehicles sold in 2019 are expected to make a combined savings of more than $11 million and prevent almost 20,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide during 2020.
Toyota’s vice president sales and marketing Sean Hanley says these financial and environmental savings calculations were based on official fuel-consumption and emissions data from the Australian Design Rules and Bureau of Statistics figures.
“The calculations show that, over a full year, the 27,846 vehicles sold last year will cut total fuel consumption by more than 8.5 million litres compared with equivalent petrol models,” Hanley says.
“Based on an average fuel price of just over $1.42 per litre, this will allow the owners to keep more than $11 million in their pockets while reducing Co2 tailpipe emissions by in excess of 20,000 tonnes.
“They would also save 100,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions – enough to fill 100,000 dwellings with a footprint of 116sq.m. and almost 4m high. That’s a city about the size as Canberra.”
Toyota’s hybrid vehicles sales last year were dominated by Corolla (10,597), Camry (8696) and RAV4 (7411).
Camry has the highest number of hybrids on Australian roads with more than 60,000 vehicles sold since 2010.
“Even a single customer, driving today’s Camry Hybrid Ascent Sport for one year, could keep approximately $560 a year in their pocket and reduce their CO2 output by more than a tonne when compared with driving an equivalent petrol model.”
More than half of all Camry sales last year were hybrid (51.9%), peaking at 77% in November.
The RAV4 launched in May and hybrids made up more than 40% of sales and achieved a higher monthly selling rate for its hybrid variants than the Corolla (926 vs 883).
Toyota recently introduced hybrid variants of Corolla sedan and C-HR, with Yaris to follow before mid-2020.
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