I also had to take my EV to the referee. He looked under the hood and scratched his head, made a phone-call to someone and essentially said he had no idea what he was looking at but it sure doesn't have an engine. Then he typed something into a computer and that was it.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Lawrence Rhodes via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > As many of you know I have been involved in EV's since the late 90's > repairing, reviving or building EV's of many sorts. It turns out that my > Aspire EV was registered by some numskull at the DMV as a hybrid. > Currently I'm in Class AE Fuel Q. I guess the clerk got frustrated. Back > 13 years I watched as 3 or 4 clerks and the manager were trying to figure > out how to register my conversion. http://www.evalbum.com/418 One of > them decided Hybrid was a good alternative as the computer allowed this > choice and I wouldn't recieve smog notices. It didn't allow Electric as > fuel. I never recieved smog notices but curiously I couldn't get the white > carpool stickers but it didn't matter as my range was down after > rearranging the battery pack and couldn't go far enough to use it. Jump 13 > years. Yesterday the same thing happened when I tried to fix their > mistake(because someone wanted to buy it and use it to get PG&E special > electric rate. Which is > not allowed anyway I found out so no sale) which is now my problem. > After spending hours there and a tow charge I was told I had to take the > car to the Referee at Bureau of Automotive Repair. I called.....they don't > seem to want to take it. So I called Sacramento for advice. I got a nice > guy named Ken who said he would research it. So for now my BEV is a Hybrid > and nobody can do anything about it even though the local DMV office staff > inspected it & agree it is a BEV. The computer says everyone is wrong and > it(based on the VIN) is a hybrid. MAN! Lawrence Rhodes > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140730/c1936d65/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- www.electric-lemon.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140730/5d02b4f4/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
