 The ZH2 was built especially for the U.S.

, more than 17 million hybrid electric vehicles have been sold worldwide since their inception in 1997.Japan ranks as the market leader with more than 7.5 million hybrids sold , followed by the United States with cumulative sales of over 4 million units through April 2016, while about 3.0 million had been sold in Europe by April 2020.Hybrid sales in the rest of the world totaled over 500,000 units by April 2016. , more than 130,000 hybrids have been sold in Canada, of which, over 100,000 are Toyota and Lexus models.