FREMONT, Calif. - The Clean Air Vehicle decal program is ending in California, which means those stickers will no longer allow electric vehicles in the carpool lane.

Program ends Sept. 30

Tuesday is the last day those decals will get EV drivers in the carpool lane or express lane. As of Wednesday, drivers must have enough people in their car in order to use the carpool lane.

The stickers were an incentive to get people to buy clean-air vehicles. In fact, drivers of hybrids and electric cars with one driver have been allowed to use California's carpool lanes since 2001. That also meant reduced tolls for those drivers.

Half a million California drivers

To date, there are more than half a million California drivers with such a sticker, and Caltrans said the Bay Area has some of the hig

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