Do you think HOV stickers will be available when 2015 PIP comes out?

If you're following the active Hybrid News posts, we just learned the next PiP version is due approx. end 2016 or early 2017. Right now the green stickers are projected to last thru 2014 maybe early 2015. After that AB2013 may give more, but there is some question how that legislation will go.

 

Inquiring minds really want to know. That's much later than I would have thought. With emerging EV technology, is Toyota waiting for other manufacturers to show their hand prior to commiting to a new PIP model? If the 2016-2017 timeline is correct, a new model PIP with only a marginal increase in EV range "ain't" going to hack it.

 

I like a curious mind. But our motto here: clean mind, clean body, take your pick (old Limeliters joke)
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Well you have approx. 6 to 9 months to decide if the HOV green sticker is important to you, if so then you should buy a PiP. Also you should follow the posts here for the next green sticker crisis when they start running out again. If you wait a 6 months or so, there is a possibility we will learn California's longer term plans on HOV access and vehicle qulaifications. Also we might learn more about what the what the new Prius and PiP will look like. If the HOV is not important to you, you can jump into a nextgen Prius (non-Plug-in) by late 2015.

Me, I just changed my spark plugs at 135k miles...and I don't want to see if I can get them back out. So I got about 10-yrs til the next set of plugs. I hate wasting perfectly good Iridium.

 

AB2013, increasing the sticker limit to 70,000, cleared the last Senate committee yesterday. The only likely question is whether Governor Brown will sign it. If he does, there should be stickers available in late 2015, possibly into 2016, unless plug-in sales accelerate significantly.