Toyota Motor’s hybrid vehicles

Toyota Motor disclosed in Friday, their hybrid vehicle sales in Japan had grown one million marks and worldwide they had sold 2.68 million of the vehicles by the end of July. Toyota is the front line in hybrid cars, which use two power sources a gas engine and another source such as an electric motor. It launched in the Prius, the world’s first produced hybrid car, in 1997. The world’s biggest and greatest automaker later expanded use of its hybrid system to mini vans. Recently, nine Toyota produced hybrid passenger vehicle models and three hybrid commercial vehicle models are sold in Japan and a total of eight passenger hybrid models in overseas. The sales of hybrids have been brisk in recent years because of high gasoline prices and increasing public awareness of global warming.

Sri Lanka earns from tea record highest revenue

Sri Lanka expected to earn a record $1.4 billion from their tea exports this year. Tea is Sri Lanka’s biggest cash crop; they earned $635 million rupees in the first six months of 2010. Sold on overseas markets as ‘Ceylon tea,’ they earned $1.3 billion in export sales in 2009, despite drought hitting production and shipments suffering from the effects of the global crash in 2008. Tea shipments from January to June rose to 143.3 million from 134.5 million kilogram’s in the same period of 2009, they said.