Wow! 6 months in California is IMPRESSIVE!!! In Texas, car registration is so cheap that no one cares where you register your car.
But in Seattle, where people will have to plug-in and then unplug their cars in the 35 degree rain for 6 months every year, probably twice a week, they’ll get pissed seeing their neighbor not having to do any of that crap.
I really screwed up, too. Kept the car in the driveway. If I’d cleared out the garage and put it away where it belonged, I probably would never have gotten caught.