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Watch the video:

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/tech/2007/04/15/strickland.ga.prius.failed.emission.wsb

Or more correctly, the State of Georgia needs to go back to the drawing board on their emissions testing.

It doesn't emit pollution long enough for them to measure it. That's a new one.

In other news, there are plenty of ways to keep the ICE running. One would be to get it running and let it idle in neutral. And I'm pretty sure the user manual said something about "B" mode keeping the engine running.

makes me wonder the phrase "you get paid more for what you know not what you do".... like geez c'mon how much prius bashing will they go until they are satisfied?

Hi Sledge:

___Where do you dig this stuff up :D

___Gotta love that Heather Abrams, the lady in charge of the Atlanta’s air pollution program. She appears not to know what she is talking about either?

Reporter: Shouldn’t Hybrid cars be exempted from this test in general to encourage their ownership.

Abrams: “Not at this point, we have not come to that conclusion and it is something we look at on an on going basis but we are not at that point yet.”

___A 2004 Prius II is still going to meet the California ARB SULEV-II specs which is far cleaner then anything else on Georgia’s roads other then another PZEV Hybrid or the rare clean-State PZEV. A failing CAT or O2 sensor will throw a CEL so WTF? Poor guy :(

___Great thread by the way!

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Guys, don't think of it as the Prius failing the test. Think of it as the Prius is smart enough to figure out that it's a test and declines to waste any fuel on it. To paraphrase the Juggernaut from X-Men 3 "Don't you know who I am? I'm the Toyota Prius, bitch!" :D

I went through this just recently. The Mass. inspection machine
refused to complete the OBD-II based testing unless it could
get an RPM figure. Since the kid doing the inspection was already
getting his first hybrid tech lesson, I showed him the footwork
to fire up the engine and then drop into "N" and keep idling [which
is better than "B" since the car isn't trying to drift away]
and then the test completed.
.
_H*

When ZEVs are common place, these inspections will be redundant!