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Select electric, plug-in hybrid and other alternative-fuel vehicles will lose access to the carpool lane starting Sept. 30, 2025, unless federal and state lawmakers act.
A high-occupancy vehicle lane on Interstate 5 in Seattle. A high-occupancy vehicle lane (also known as an HOV lane, carpool lane, diamond lane, 2+ lane, and transit lane or T2 or T3 lanes) is a restricted traffic lane reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles with a driver and at least one passenger, including carpools, vanpools, and transit buses.
Some hybrids may qualify for reduced license fees. Arizona has allowed 10,000 EV and plug in hybrids to gain access to the HOV lanes, but this incentive has reached its capacity. [17] California- The state government offers rebates through the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) where taxpayers who purchase an EV or plug in hybrid can receive ...
In 2022, there were over 90,000 electric vehicles registered in Washington, the fourth most of any state, despite it being the 13th most populous state. [3] It similarly had the fourth highest percentage of registered vehicles be battery electric or plug-in hybrid, behind California, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii, respectively. [29]
California has led the charge to reduce vehicular greenhouse gas emissions, adopting legislation in 2022 that will require all new vehicles sold within its borders to be electric or plug-in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday restored California's ability to set its own zero-emission vehicle sales mandate and tailpipe emissions limits ...
Quebec became the first Canadian province to pass such legislation, joining ten U.S. states, including California, that have similar ZEV laws. Quebec aims to have 100,000 zero emission vehicles on the road by 2020. [237] [238] Initially, the provincial government set the goal in 2011 to have 300,000 plug-in vehicles on the roads by 2020. [234]
A few years later, California moved the climate change goalpost and only qualified all-electric and plug-in hybrids for the special carpool lane status, sticking me back in the interstate version ...