Toyota sold 665,740 hybrids in the first six months of 2014, 4.1% ahead of last year’s record tally.

Honda’s sales jumped 105.8% to 158,696 units with Hyundai volume up 33% to 27,118, WardsAuto.com reported.

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The Japanese automakers saw growth in global hybrid sales in the first half but the Korean brands reported mixed results, according to WardsAuto.

Hybrid deliveries between January and June, not counting Nissan and truck makers like Hino, grew to more than 892,000 units, up more than 20% year on year.

Toyota’s 4.1% jump kept it at the top of the sales chart.

Fuji Heavy Industries’ Subaru delivered 12,941 of the XV Hybrid models introduced in June 2013, so a H1 comparison isn’t possible.

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WardsAuto said Kia’s six-month total, mainly on the strength of the Optima Hybrid, was 10,057, down 25%, while sales of Mazda’s Axela Hybrid totaled 4,600. The Axela, called the 3 in export markets went on sale last October and uses Toyota parts in its hybrid system.

According to the report, Mitsubishi in H1 2014 sold an estimated 13,000 Outlander plug-in hybrids worldwide (just-auto.com/JATO Dynamics data for the EU showed 6,837 by the end of May), nearly triple the tally in H1 2013 when problems with the model’s lithium-ion battery forced the suspension of production for several months after the model’s January 2013 introduction. Deliveries to the end of June included 5,500 in Japan and 7,500 in Europe, according to WardsAuto.

WardsAuto data showed Nissan’s global hybrid sales for the first half included 8,387 units in Japan and 3,715 in the US. It also sells two other hybrids in Japan.

Of hybrids sold globally in the year’s first six months, the Japanese market accounted for 84.5%, or 134,163 units, followed by the US (14,055), Asia and Oceania (5,834) and Europe (4,106).

Japanese automakers produced 779,689 hybrids during the period, including 604 trucks and 43 buses. Production value, according to Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, totalled JPY1.7 trillion (US$174.5bn).

The top-selling models were Toyota’s Aqua, sold outside Japan as the Prius C (148,250), the mainstream Prius (128,940), Honda’s Fit/Jazz Hybrid (74,717), Toyota Prius Alpha, exported as the Prius v (65,490) and the Toyota Camry Hybrid (37,590), WardsAuto said.