Japan's Toyota Motor Co. said it was working on 10 new hybrid vehicles, after seeing sales of the environmentally friendly autos rocket in the United States.

　　Jim Press, president of Toyota Motor Sales USA, said the world's second-biggest car maker aims by early in the next decade to sell a million hybrid vehicles a year globally. Of that total, 600,000 would be sold in the United States.

　　Toyota was the first automaker to introduce a hybrid vehicle powered by a combination of gasoline (petrol) and electricity. Two years after it was introduced, Toyota's hugely successful Prius still has a waiting list and some buyers are waiting more than six months for delivery.