Toyota hybrid sales reach record high in Australia

April was a huge period for hybrids, peculiarly astatine market-leading Toyota which had 2 records to brag about.

For the archetypal time, monthly deliveries of Toyota hybrids exceeded 10,000 units, portion they besides accounted for much than fractional of full marque sales.

All up, Toyota sold 10,972 hybrids, accounting for 52.8 per cent of its full tally of 20,771 vehicles.

That besides meant 66 per cent of each hybrid vehicles sold successful Australia successful April were Toyotas.

With year-to-date income of 35,383 vehicles, Toyota’s hybrid lineup is outselling each different brand’s implicit lineup. Second-place Ford, for example, has sold 31,323 vehicles truthful acold this year.

Toyota says it sold much hybrids past period unsocial than it did successful immoderate calendar twelvemonth anterior to 2018.

The Toyota RAV4 was Australia’s best-selling conveyance successful April, with 5857 examples sold. That was a grounds tally for Toyota’s mid-sized SUV, beating the grounds acceptable conscionable the period prior.

A whopping 94 per cent of these – oregon 5504 successful full – were hybrid models. That was different grounds for the RAV4.

Despite its popularity, this was lone the 3rd period successful the RAV4’s past wherever it topped the Australian income charts. It antecedently did truthful successful July and August 2020.

Toyota has been moving to slash hold times for the RAV4 – which had antecedently faced waits of arsenic agelong arsenic 24 months – arsenic good arsenic different hybrid models similar the Corolla hatch and C-HR.

The institution says mean hold times for these models volition beryllium “back to normal” by the extremity of June, astatine 3 to 4 months oregon perchance adjacent lower.

“Record deliveries are not a extremity successful themselves,” said Sean Hanley, Toyota Australia’s vice president of sales, selling and franchise operations.

“They item the pent-up request for hybrids and the occurrence being achieved successful substantially reducing lawsuit hold times.

“While it would beryllium casual to presume this effect is simply driven by historical demand, it is not the afloat picture. Customer orders successful April remained high, demonstrating a increasing fig of Australians are seeking fuel-efficient hybrids that are practical, susceptible and affordable.”

Toyota present exclusively offers its Yaris, Yaris Cross and C-HR with hybrid powerfulness successful Australia.

Other Toyota models that connection a hybrid enactment see the Camry, Corolla, Corolla Cross, Kluger and RAV4.

There are presently nary hybrid body-on-frame utes oregon SUVs successful Toyota Australia showrooms, however, though the marque has introduced a mild-hybrid mentation of its HiLux ute.

Toyota has debuted a hybrid mentation of its new-generation Prado overseas, but it hasn’t been locked successful for our market. Instead, the local-spec Prado volition usage a mild-hybrid turbo-diesel motor similar the HiLux.