California aims to get less affluent plug-in drivers into carpool lanes
“The main purpose of California’s sticker program to let clean-air vehicles into carpool lanes was always simple: It helped induce people to buy hybrid and electric cars. But now the state has additional goals. Besides promoting cars with better fuel economy through rebates and access to carpool lanes, lawmakers also want to help poor people get into these expensive vehicles. And they want to salvage the value of used plug-in cars that would be hard to sell without the stickers.”