US hybrid sales up 38 percent in 2007; Prius leads the pack

Kim Fenske, of Copper Mountain, Colo., poses for a photo beside his 2008 Toyota Prius sedan before he sets out for a day in the snow at Arapahoe Basin Ski Resort near the Colorado mountain resort community of Keystone on Friday, April 18, 2008. U.S. registrations of new hybrid vehicles rose 38 percent in 2007 to a record 350,289, according to data to be released Monday by R.L. Polk & Co., a Southfield-based automotive marketing and research company. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

(AP) -- Kim Fenske drives a bus in Colorado by day, but when he's not working, he zooms around the mountains in a 2007 Toyota Prius. Fenske, an attorney by training who has also worked as a forest ranger, was an environmentalist long before hybrid cars like the Prius hit the market. In the early 1990s, he ran unsuccessfully for the Wisconsin state legislature on a renewable energy platform.

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