Austria license plate: Electric

Format, years and the law

Format

LL-999L, for example WO-787Z (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The characters decode exactly like a standard plate: district letters, then a meaningless serial ending in a letter. Electric status lives entirely in the green script, Austria wrote it in ink, not in the alphabet.

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued

2017 to today. Still issued.

Vehicle class

Electric: EV-distinct plates or suffixes (German E, CN green plates). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and moped.

Colours

Characters #007A3D Background #FFFFFF

Size

520 × 120 mm · every country's size

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  Electric 300×200 mm

  electric · 300 × 200 mm

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  Electric 210×170 mm

  electric · 210 × 170 mm

About this plate

F-2, THE PERIOD IS TWO COMMENCEMENTS AND THIS SERIES RECORDS ONE. § 49 Abs. 4 Z 5 AS ENACTED by BGBl. I Nr. 9/2017, in force 1 April 2017, read verbatim "Kraftfahrzeuge der Klasse L, M1 und N1 jeweils mit reinem Elektroantrieb oder mit Wasserstoff-Brennstoffzellenantrieb, weiß / grün". M2, M3, N2 and N3 were added later, by BGBl. I Nr. 102/2017 Z 18, verbatim: "In § 49 Abs. 4 Z 5 wird der Ausdruck „M1 und N1“ ersetzt durch „M1, M2, M3, N1, N2 und N3“.", in force "mit Ablauf des Tages der Kundmachung" of a Bundesgesetzblatt "Ausgegeben am 26. Juli 2017", i.e. 27 July 2017, which is also RIS's own Inkrafttretensdatum for that Fassung. The clean resolution is a second series id, which append-only permits, and it is the maintainer's call. Corroborated off-host by the ministry that owns the plate: infothek.bmimi.gv.at, "Grüne Kennzeichen jetzt auch für Elektro-Lkw", "Neu zugelassene E-Lkw der Fahrzeugklassen N2 und N3 sowie E-Busse der Fahrzeugklassen M2 und M3 erhalten das Kennzeichen mit grüner Schrift automatisch". Where the ministry's loose "August" meets the Bundesgesetzblatt's day, the instrument governs. The ellipsis removed the SUBJECT of the second clause. Clause 1 puts Z 5 inside the red-white-red rule, excepting only mopeds and light quadricycles; "solche gemäß Z 5" in clause 2 means the electric ones AMONG THOSE. An electric car therefore wears green script on white with RED-WHITE-RED top and bottom edging; only an electric moped or light quadricycle wears a green border. This file already reads the parallel exception in the FIFTH sentence correctly, one sentence away, in the band note below.

Legal basis and sources

1. the § 49 Fassung in force 01.01.2017-31.03.2017, NO Z 5, no 'Elektroantrieb'. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49&FassungVom=2017-0...
2. the § 49 Fassung in force from 01.04.2017 (BGBl. I Nr. 9/2017), Z 5 appears. The pair of Fassungen is the period evidence. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49&FassungVom=2017-0...
3. current § 49 Abs. 4 Z 5 (weiß/grün), the green border rule, the EU-field exception for Z-5 moped plates, Abs. 4b (the two-way option). https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49