Groperzenegger OKs hybrids using carpool lanes...
| Sacramento --
Supporting hybrid drivers and upsetting car collectors, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed bills Thursday allowing some hybrid vehicles carrying one person to use freeway carpool lanes and requiring older autos to pass smog checks. ....Hybrids that will qualify must get 45 mpg, which currently is only the Prius or Honda Civic hybrid. Pavley said she set the standard high to encourage automakers like Ford, which is about to release a hybrid sport utility vehicle that gets well under 45 mpg, to increase their vehicles' efficiency. Pavley's bill has some caveats. Hybrid drivers will have to buy a decal to use carpool lanes, and they won't be able to use some lanes that are classified as already congested by the state Department of Transportation.... |
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