Hybrid car owners can continue to use faster carpool lanes in Virginia thanks to a new state law, but they risk a ticket if they don’t have the right license plate.

This year’s General Assembly extended indefinitely a rule allowing drivers of fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles to ride in the faster “high occupancy vehicle” lanes along the Dulles Toll Road, Interstate 66 and Interstate 95/395, even if they’re riding alone.

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