>>Since the Prius launched in 1997, Toyota says it has sold more than 20 million electrified vehicles worldwide. The company says those sales have avoided 160 million tons of CO2 emissions, which is the equivalent to the impact of 5.5 million all-electric battery vehicles.
Almost all of those 20 million electrified vehicles worldwide have been conventional hybrids. So all of that electricity has been generated by gasoline engines.
The CO2 emissions have been avoided because the hybrid powertrains are more efficient and get better gas mileage.
Fair point about them being hybrids.
OTOH, I still don’t give a rat’s tail-section about carbon dioxide emissions. I’m tired of being lied to by de-growth communists posing as environmentalists.