The bar chart presents the comparison in the sales of hybrid cars between three countries – Japan, the US, and the other location – over a 3-year period.
Overall, the number of sold hybrid vehicles in three nations shown upward tendencies across the surveyed time. In addition, the US was the leader in sales of cars using both electricity and fuel before suddenly being surpassed by Japan by 2009.
According to the column graph, the totals of dual-power vehicles sold in Japan, the US, and an undefined country in 2006 were 50, 250, and 50 thoundsand, respectively. In the next year, the figure for the US rose dramatically to 350 thoundsand units, while that of Japan and the other nation only increased slightly to just above 50 thoundsand and 75 thoundsand, in the same order.
Despite the sum of sold duel-power vehicles in America dropped gently to roughly 300 thoundsand in 2008, the figures of Japan and an undefined location hiked simultaneously to 100 thoundsand units. Noticeably, the sales of mixed-energy cars in Japan surprisingly peaked at just below 350 thoundsand, while that of the USA continued decreasing by 25 thoundsand and the other nation just increased to 125 thoundsand.