DETROIT - Toyota Motor Corp., struggling to resume production after an earthquakeand tsunami struck Japan, said Wednesday it sold a million Prius hybrid in the United States.
The carmaker said the Prius was the best-selling hybrid in the U.S. since it went on sale11 years ago.
The Prius is powered by both a gasoline engine and an electric motor. You can get up to 51 miles per gallon city and 48 highway.
It has become increasingly popular this year as gas prices nationally have movedtoward $ 4 a gallon.
The March 11 earthquake in Japan, Toyota forced to stop production at most of the factories in Japan. But the company restarted two plants that make the Prius and Lexusmodels on March 28.
Toyota will start to make two models of cars on April 11th, taking another small step towards the normalization of operations. But the biggest automaker in the world hasdenied a report that most of its domestic factories idled should resume next week andwarned that supply disruptions are likely to interrupt the assembly of vehicles to one ormore of the its operations in North America at some point.
Moody's Investors Service warned Wednesday it may downgrade the credit ratingsbecause of the financial consequences arising from the production of cars suspendedafter the March 11 earthquake and tsunami Toyota.
The warning came as Toyota, the world's No. 1 automaker, is struggling to resumeproduction in Japan after the two disasters and supply chain disruption causedshortages of parts.
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