Did you order your first Prius Prime WITHOUT ever having seen one in person ?

Over 102,000 miles and still going strong sounds great !

I've heard the self driving program mentioned before, I still need to research it more.

I do believe we'll be very pleased with our Prime XLE when it gets delivered, so not that I plan on ever getting a RAV4 Prime myself, I still look forward to hearing about how buyers like it after it is available.

 

It would be nice if cars could simply be sold the same everywhere without special incentives limited to just some areas, but I understand it's because some states are carb and others not.

I am surprised that our state being a non-carb state has as many public charging stations as they do, not complaining though, just puzzled.

 

Okay, I'm still a relative noob as far as details about "carb" states (since we live in a non-carb state) so I'm guessing the litigation is by automotive corporations fighting to prevent any more states from joining "carb" ?

I did a search online and found this article from March of 2019 so I'm not sure how up to date it is -

What are CARB states, ZEV states and 'smile' states? Autoweek explains | Get the latest car news, car reviews, auto show updates, and racing news from Autoweek. News for the auto enthusiast.

(the article clarified my understanding some more (I didn't even know what "carb" actually stood for, I assumed it was something like carbon emissions )

Anyhow, anyone know if there is a list of non-carb states that are currently working to join "carb" ?

I'm guessing the "mixed blessing" another poster mentioned is because of the requirement for car owners to have annual or biannual emissions testing ?

In hindsight I remember over 15 years ago when we used to live in Maryland having to have emissions testing done, but at that time we had not really thought about hybrid cars way back then and did not realize about carb and non-carb states, just thought it was something Maryland decided to do to make people with cars that had excessive exhaust pollutants get their car fixed.

 

I was thinking before that the oil industry was likely resistant to hybrid and EV vehicles as it would erode their oil profits more and more over time, but you would think they would realize hybrid and EV cars are getting more plentiful and they need to invest in that industry somehow so the profits they lose from declining oil sales can be offset from profits from investing in some aspect the hybrid/EV industry.