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I wanted to know if HOV access was "driving" Prius sales in Northern Virginia (NoVA).

To find out, we recorded the following data for any Prius we saw in NoVA during the last two months: (a) first 3 digits of license plate, (b) Prius type 1,2,3,c,v, and (c) HOV access as regulated by Clean Fuels license plates - three versions, logo on the left, right , middle . We deleted duplicate entries, and ended up with 122 Prii on our data base.

Survey Results:
122 Prii total
4 Gen1's and 100% with HOV access (all CF logo on left - best free HOV access)
61 Gen2's and 44% with HOV access (40% CF logo on left; 60% logo on right)
51 Gen3's and 21% with HOV acesss (~40% CF logo on left; 60% logo on right)
5 Prius v's and one with HOV
1 Prius c no HOV
0 We saw no Prii with newer Clean Fuels (logo in middle= lousy HOV access)

Conclusions
Bottom line is newer Prii are not getting good HOV access, but older Prii get great...

Sounds promising !

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So Saturday afternoon, my wife and I are watching Smithsonian channel and found out about:
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Just the thing for wolf hunting in Alaska or dealing with DC...

PriusChat members,

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm headed out on maternity leave for a few months so I won't be responding to PC threads/PMs. That said, I wanted to ensure proper introductions to our team so that if you see their names replying, you know who they are.

Natalya Edwards works with me on Prius, Prius v and Prius Plug-in. Angie White is the product manager for Prius c and RAV4 EV and Stacey Peterson works with her on those two products. You may see PriusChat responses from any of them in the future. They hope to see/meet many of you at the To Go Before event in June in CA.

Best wishes for a great summer,
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