Five months after sales began, the 2007 Toyota Camry hybrid has found 12,409 buyers. While that’s a small percentage of overall Camry sales, which totaled 42,227 for August alone, the new version boosts support for tandem gasoline-electric engine technology. With the inclusion of its luxury Lexus brand, Toyota Motor Sales has delivered 126,249 hybrid vehicles in the first eight months of the year, including 25,994 in August alone. The pioneering Toyota Prius has found more than half-a-million owners since its 1997 Japanese introduction, which was followed by an American debut in 2000. In 2005, sales of Prius in the U.S. reached more than 107,000, making it Toyota’s third-best selling car after the Camry and Corolla. The hybrid fleet will continue to grow with the April 2007 launch of the Lexus LS 600h L hybrid sedan, the first vehicle powered by a full-hybrid V8. Beyond that, Toyota is working to develop a ‘plug-in’ hybrid that can travel greater distances on its electric motor, requiring less use of the gasoline engine, according to Jim Press, president of Toyota North America. ‘We estimate that all the hybrids we have sold in America have saved more than 155 million […]