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Californians seeking access to the state's High Occupancy Vehicle lanes need look no further than the Honda Civic GX, a compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicle that's permitted to use HOV lanes until January 2015.

The Honda, which is the only CNG-fueled light-duty passenger vehicle available in the U.S., earns Inherently Low Emissions Vehicle (ILEV) status and therefore qualifies for California's white sticker. These stickers are available in unlimited quantities, unlike the state's yellow stickers that expired on July 1, 2011.

The CNG-burnin' 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas will launch in the fall and gets, according to Honda's estimates, 27/38/31 miles per gasoline gallon equivalent (that's city/highway/combined). Compared to the outgoing 2011 model, city fuel economy improves by 12.5 percent, and highway mileage is up 5.5 percent.

It's important to note that the latest Civic Hybrid, although it does indeed earn darn good fuel efficiency marks, does not qualify for HOV lane usage.

So, drivers in California seeking access to HOV lanes have a handful of options, including snatching up a a late model Civic GX, waiting for the upcoming Civic Natural Gas, buying a Nissan Leaf or hunting down one of these remaining qualified vehicles.

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