You can get an EZ-Pass that has no initial purchase fee and no monthly fee. For example, Virginia.

There is a difference between EZ-Pass and E-Pass. My EZ-Pass from Ohio worked on all Florida toll roads except the Turnpike. I now have E-Pass, from the Central Florida Expressway Authority, which works on all east coast toll roads and the Florida Turnpike. E-Pass was more usable than EZ-Pass. Here is a link to their website:

E-PASS Purchase-Register-Reload

. We drive to PA with only an ez pass. I got rid of our sunpasses.

We have both, for the discounts and backup for misplacement (happened between cars)

use EZPASS MA for the MA discounts
use SunPass for the FL Discounts in FL.

The battery life is about 7-8 years, so they will fail eventually, and you can get a free one (usually, they may decide to charge in the future)

For those who snowbird / travel, pick the state where you spend the most in tolls and get that state's transponder if going with a single one. The Sunpass app works very well to change plates if flying in and using a rental car and your own transponder, prefer that one for traveling to the EZ pass

Once you register the car and plate, and you forget to put the transponder up, or it falls off or the transponder battery dies, your account is still billed based on the plate reader, so no bill in the mail but no discounts. (first hand experience and confirmation call with FL DOT when our MA EZ Pass battery died during a trip between MA and FL)

good luck. .

Yes...you are correct. We purchased a SunPass Pro specifically for our trips back to New England. SunPass Pro works everywhere. The SunPass Pro mounts with the suction cups and we remove it when we return to Florida.

We access our SunPass account and deactivate the permanent mini SunPass that is stuck behind the rear view mirror. There is a simple pulldown box on the website to deactivate any transponder. The morning we leave we deactivate the permanent one and stick up the SunPass Pro. This way we will not get charged twice.

Obviously, when we return the SunPass Pro goes into the desk and we "re-activate" the regular credit card size SunPass mini permanently mounted behind the rearview mirror.

TIP: Remember to deselect the SHOW ACTIVE TRANSPONDERS button on the Sun Pass website (it is at the top right) so you can see the transponders to activate or the site will "hides" the deactivated transponders.

Easy-Peasy.

Why not deactivate the "regular" SunPass permanently and work exclusively off the SunPass Pro?

Odd, our PA EZ Pass works on all FL toll roads including the FL Turnpike. E-Pass provided no advantage, Sunpass provided no advantage. Downside is if you use Tampa or Orlando airports it doesn't work in their parking areas but, we never take our car to those airports so no issue. I travel through almost all the EZ Pass states once a year and have never had an issue, which was the intent of the revenue sharing agreements. I canceled Sunpass because I couldn't see an advantage to pay to upgrade to Pro. So far, no issues anywhere.

The SunPass mini is permanently affixed to the windshield (we have one in each vehicle).

The SunPass Pro is portable--so we can use it on whichever car we take north--we swap it out and deactivate the mini.

We also loan it out to out-of-state visitors so they can use it in their rental car while they are visiting (and that way we don't have to drive them everywhere :-)

We also use the SunPass Pro on those odd trips we take on the east coast when we use a rental car. Easy to update the plate on the app....

When we purchased the pro ONLY came with the suctions cup mount. It works out quite well and it is very versatile.

I have an easypass but plan to get a sunpass and cancel the essy pass. I belive they both cover the same hightways.

I have a SunPass Pro & from personal experience the customer service is excellent.

Same experience with customer service here and I find it works in more places (not Houston)