For years, many owners of electric and hybrid vehicles in California have qualified for temporary "clean air vehicle" decals that let them freely cruise the carpool lane even when driving solo. That ...

California's long-running perk that let electric cars glide solo through carpool lanes has flipped into a costly trap for drivers who miss the rule change. Anyone who keeps using high-occupancy ...

Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. You may notice clean air stickers on cars ...

If you've driven a car through a major metropolitan area, then you've probably sat in rush hour traffic staring at a free-flowing carpool lane wondering whose bright idea it was to make a whole lane ...

Electric vehicle drivers will lose special carpool lane privileges Sept. 30. The federally sanctioned, state-run Clean Air Vehicle Decals program — which allowed solo drivers of electric vehicles to ...

Caltrans says its analysis of the current conditions should be completed by the end of January and a change could take place ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A program that began in 1999 to encourage ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- If you enjoy cruising through the carpool lane with your clean air vehicle sticker, those days may soon be ending. Without federal and state intervention, those stickers won't be ...

Bad news, electric vehicle owners. Starting Monday morning, one of California’s longest-running incentives for people to buy electric cars — a program that provided access to carpool lanes regardless ...

Q: Jane Block asked for further clarification about who can drive in carpool lanes. Block said she drives an electric car and asked whether EVs can use carpool lanes. A: Motorcycles, mass transit ...