Toyota Prius

The company is going to increase the production of Toyota cars Toyota Prius, equipped with a hybrid power plant. This will happen next year when a new generation will bestseller.

This year, with Toyota conveyors get around 280 000 hybrid hatchbeks, most of which will be assembled at the plant Tsutsumi (city Toeda). In 2009, is expected to produce 480 000 cars of this model. To increase the Prius production with Tsutsumi plant will be moved minivan assembly of Toyota Wish.

Some might seem that collect half a million cars a year - is not so much. But for hybrid cars is not so: Prius model produced since 1997, more than 10 years and only recently the number of sedans and hatchbacks crossed 1 million threshold in fact, more than a quarter of a million this (281 300 pieces), were collected over the past year.