"Conventional" hybrids kicked out of California carpool lanes

[trooper Tdiesel]

a little known bit of info.

a truck or car that is duel-fuel gas/LPG or gas/CNG can get CA clean air stickers,

and not be ran on alt fuel ever, if the driver chooses to and run in the HOV lane

[cfg83]

trooper Tdiesel -

Originally Posted by trooper Tdiesel

a little known bit of info.

a truck or car that is duel-fuel gas/LPG or gas/CNG can get CA clean air stickers,

and not be ran on alt fuel ever, if the driver chooses to and run in the HOV lane

That sounds like the Arizona scandal (tax breaks for dual-fuel cars that never use the cleaner fuel).

I don't see a dual-fuel car in this California list (going back to 1991) :

Eligible Vehicles - Single Occupant Carpool Lane Use Stickers

Which one is the dual-fuel?

CarloSW2

[trooper Tdiesel]

under the white one its says CNG
January 1, 2015 is when the white ones expire


go to say year 2004 on that list it has ford F-150 CNG model listed
theres nothing on there that says dedicated or duel fuel. just CNG fueled

fueleconomy.gov list 2004 f-150 as being made bolth ways that year, and several other years.
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also the CA clean air/HOV form is very loose in regards to duel-fuel
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/forms/reg/reg1000.pdf

[dcb]

I'm not getting it trooper. If it isn't dual fuel, "dedicated" is implied, i.e. "dedicated gasoline". The form says "check one", of which CNG is an option and gasoline is not. There are no provisions for dual fuel, likely because they cannot guarantee you will use the preferred fuel as has been mentioned.

The fueleconomy site lists the truck as CNG, it isn't dual fuel as far as I can tell. They have Dual Fuel trucks, but they are not on the form.

[HighMPG]

Man, At least I won't feel bad taking the stickers off to clean up the black trim! Sucks we don't get any love but if a plug in mod was performed isn't there a way to get the car reclassified? At least being a 2 seater I can get away in 3 person carpool lanes with one more person.