Hi,

The current HOV stickers in CA expire Jan 01, 2011. What are the odds that they will be extended?

I thought it was 2012? Maybe I'm just crazy.
Anyways there currently isn't any legislation that would extend them. So in order for the date to be extended, they will have to make one and pass it. Not really sure what the odds of that happening are. Hopefully they will renew it or make some other incentive for driving a hybrid, like the tax credit which is also on its way to expiration.

All Clean Air Vehicle stickers will expire January 1, 2011, unless the law authorizing their use is extended beyond that date. (http://www.dmv.ca.gov/vr/decal.htm)

I am guessing by 2010 Hybrids will be a norm so I do not see any special incentives to buy one. My 2 cents!

Yeah. I guess so. I'm still mad that I never even got the stickers... I bought right after the cutoff. I see an SUV w/ 2 people in the carpool lane and I know that if they were each driving their own HCH, they would still be using less gas than carpooling in that SUV.