Toyota is by far and away the biggest hybrid maker on the world market, the unstoppable and genre defining Prius has been a best seller since it’s release in 1997 and in times of soaring oil prices its sale streak doesn’t look set to slow down. Toyota has now sold 3.03 million hybrids between 1997 and Feb-2011 and plans to release 10 new hybrid models by the end of 2012.

Toyota plans to sell 1 million hybrids annually, a goal once scoffed at by auto-analysts, with the sale of hybrids and electric cars continuing to climb (as gas prices themselves climb) it’s now seen as an eventual inevitability that 1 million plus hybrid and electric cars will be hitting the roads worldwide every year in the near future.

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Via Reuters