The Toyota Prius has the distinction of being the world’s first mass-produced hybrid and has been around since 1997, though the first generation was only sold in Japan. The first of the Toyota Prius generations to be available internationally was codenamed the NHW11, which went on sale in the US in 2000 as a 2001 model. It stuck around for only three model years before a redesign of the Toyota Prius in the form of the second-gen car arrived as a 2004 model.
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