page_title: Hybrid electric vehicle
section_title: American market
hierarchical_section_title: Hybrid electric vehicle / Sales and rankings / American market
caption_attribution_description: English: Annual hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) market share of new car sales in the United States between 1999 and 2019. Data series taken from: Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center (US DoE), available here and here HybridCars.com data for: 2011 from&#160;: http://www.hybridcars.com/news/december-2011-dashboard-sales-still-climbing-35093.html 2012 from: http://www.hybridcars.com/december-2012-dashboard/ 2013 from: http://www.hybridcars.com/december-2013-dashboard/ 2014 from: http://www.hybridcars.com/december-2014-dashboard/ 2015 from: http://www.hybridcars.com/december-2015-dashboard/ Transportation Energy Data Book, Ed. 38.1 (2020), Oak Ridge National Laboratory 2016-2019
context_page_description: A hybrid electric vehicle is a type of hybrid vehicle that combines a conventional internal combustion engine system with an electric propulsion system. The presence of the electric powertrain is intended to achieve either better fuel economy than a conventional vehicle or better performance. There is a variety of HEV types and the degree to which each function as an electric vehicle also varies. The most common form of HEV is the hybrid electric car, although hybrid electric trucks and buses also exist.
  Modern HEVs make use of efficiency-improving technologies such as regenerative brakes which convert the vehicle's kinetic energy to electric energy, which is stored in a battery or supercapacitor. Some varieties of HEV use an internal combustion engine to turn an electrical generator, which either recharges the vehicle's batteries or directly powers its electric drive motors; this combination is known as a motor–generator. Many HEVs reduce idle emissions by shutting down the engine at idle and restarting it when needed; this is known as a start-stop system.
context_section_description: The market of hybrid electric vehicles in the United States is the second largest in the world after Japan with cumulative sales of 5.4 million units through December 2019. The 3 million mark was achieved in October 2013, and 4 million in April 2016. Sales of hybrid vehicles in the U.S. began to decline following the financial crisis of 2007–08, and after a short recovery, began to decline again in 2014 due to low gasoline prices, and had a small rebound in 2019. Hybrid sales in the American market achieved its highest market share ever in 2013, capturing 3.19% of new carsales that year. At the end of 2015 the hybrid take rate had fallen to 2.21%, dropped to 1.99% in 2016, slightly recovered to 2.4% in 2019.
  Since their inception in 1999, a total of 5,374,000 hybrid electric automobiles and sport utility vehicles have been sold in the country through December 2019. The Toyota Prius family is the market leader with 1,932,805 units sold through April 2016, representing a 48.0% market share of total hybrid sales. The conventional Toyota Prius is the top-selling hybrid model, with 1,643,000 units sold through April 2016, accounting for 40.8% of all hybrids sold in the U.S. since inception. The United States accounted for 44.7% of Toyota Motor Company global hybrid sales through April 2016.
  As of April 2016, sales of the conventional Prius are followed by the Toyota Camry Hybrid, with 345,640 units sold since 2006, the Honda Civic Hybrid, with cumulative sales of 234,610 vehicles since 2002, the Ford Fusion Hybrid with 166,341 units since 2009, and the Toyota Prius c with 165,075 units since 2012. Among the hybrids built by American manufacturers, the siblings Lincoln MKZ/Mercury Milan/Fusion Hybrids rank first, with combined sales of 200,899 units since 2009 through 2015.
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