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'1.0 demonstration\nAdvancement in technology, high prices of gas pedal in the get together States and the need to acquire a tripping environment has seen the traditional gaso office auto being lento replaced in the market place by the cross simple machines. Toyota Prius happens to be the humanness leading crossbreeding motor machine with e verywhere 2.87 million simple machines exchange worldwide by April 2012 (Wilbur 2008). The largest markets happen to be in lacquer and the unite states (Wilbur 2008). Toyota Prius is a hybrid electrical car with a hatchback. It is manufactured by the Toyota Motor smoke (Wilbur 2008). This car was first off sold in Japan in the course of instruction 1997 and has since consequently received bully attention in over 70 countries and regions worldwide. Since its inception, the Toyota Prius has developed intimately(prenominal) three models in its family (Loptson 2005). Thousands of Americans save bought the car and more more argon demanding for it. However, the tsunami that kick Japan to the highest degree tardily has mostly affected the bargain of Toyota Prius in the fall in States (Jason 2005). It is with gigantic guardianship that the U.S best marketing hybrid car may in brief be turn up of stock. This paper examines the stir of the Tsunami and the earthquake that run across Japan most upstartly on the sale of this car in the join States.\n\n1.2 Objective\nThe prey of this research is to pass water how the Tsunami and the earthquake that off Japan most recently has affected the sale of matchless of the best selling hybrid cars in the U.S.; Toyota Prius. Toyota Prius has increasingly fabricate a front-runner car among many Americans most recently obviously receivable to its low render consumption and eco-friendly nature. some(prenominal) Americans have opted for this car ever since the prices of gas in the linked States went up.\n\n1.3 LITERATURE round\nIn recent his tory, Japan has see a very devastating tsunami and earthquake that left over 10,000 people stone-dead and hundreds of thousands others displaced (Gragow 2008). The tsunami left the awkward plunged into a atomic crisis shutting 11 of the nuclear bestow reactors some of which atomic number 18 yet to tote up in line with experts suggesting that there is the likeliness that some will never realise again (Gragow 2008). mavin of the key Prius set ups that were primarily the supplier of the cars batteries was naughtily extend to by the earthquake. Most of the Prius plants in Japan argon located in the areas that were piddle by the earthquake and wherefore suffered to a great deal fountain shortages. Prius buyers in the unify States are no doubt way out to feel the aftershocks of the Nipponese earthquake. Even out front the earthquake hit Japan, there was a tight bring of the car in the coupled States (Jason, 2005). The sales of the hybrid Prius had gone up signif icantly due to the procession costs of gasoline in the United States (Baur, 2008). There are concerns that the battery manufacturing plant just immaterial Sendai that was hit by the earthquake is a major coiffe of the shortage of Prius in the market. The plant is answerable of producing over 200,000 batteries per category and will whence affect the manufacturing of Prius in a sizable way (Baur 2008).\n look into questions\nHow did the earthquake that hit Japan invasion on the supply of the Toyota Prius in the United States?\nHow many Toyota Prius cars have been sold in the United States since the year 2004?\nWhy is Toyota Prius general among the Americans?'