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Those HOV lane permits were time limited.  (And they had to have those ugly stickers on the bumper -- don't know if it was worth it. :)

truedat, who wants the yellow HOV sticker lanes on the bumper. Lets see....0 mph, battery draining rawking to Brittney Spears and Will I Am....or going into the HOV lane. Hmmmh.....

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CA use to allow the Prius to drive the HOV lanes but not anymore, its only full electric now. Ugh.

Yes! and I'm very happy about this, after all the HOV was designed for fully electric vehicles from the beginning, not hybrids or so it should have been.  It was meant to be an incentive to get fueled cars off the road.

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HOV lane usage has been "abused" in many ways.  In the late 90's AZ passed an alt fuels bill that would let you retro fit your vehicle to run on CNG as an alternate fuel.  The State thought the credits would run 3-4 million and be used in commercial vehicles.  Companies started putting 3 gallon CNG tanks onto trucks and cars and outfitting them for under $2000, and you could get credits in the $10K+ range.  It cost AZ 100s of Millions before they figured out how to pull the plug. 

 

Any of these retrofit vehciles qualified for Clean Air plates and could use HOV lanes...

 

Another case of unintended consequences....

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