The company plans to add roughly 10 new hybrid models over the next few years, and increase the number of sites where they can assemble hybrids. Toyota's global production of hybrid cars in 2009, around 500,000, accounted for about 8 percent of its overall production. Outside of Japan, Toyota has expanded its hybrid production to countries including China, the United States, Thailand and Australia.
Toyota Motor Corp. plans to boost its global production of gas-electric hybrids to 1 million units in 2011, twice the volume of last year, according to Reuters.
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