Ontario licence plate: Green
Issued today 2010 to today. Electric plates for car, van, and truck, issued by Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO); plates and permits issued through ServiceOntario. One of 12 Ontario license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLLL 999(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2010 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Electric: EV-distinct plates or suffixes (German E, CN green plates). Issued for car, van, and truck.
- Colours
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Characters
#00843DBackground#FFFFFF - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- The ELIGIBILITY, PRIVILEGE and RESTRICTION text above is quoted from ServiceOntario and is as good as Ontario evidence gets. The former MTO programme page (mto.gov.on.ca/english/vehicles/electric/ green-licence-plate.shtml), which the article cites, is dead; its content moved to the ontario.ca page cited above, which does not date the programme.
- How numbers are issued
- GVAA-001 onward, continuing into the GW block; VEAA-001 onward for the French legend
- Who can have one
- ServiceOntario, verbatim: eligible are "plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV)", "battery electric vehicles (BEV)", "hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs)", "used 2010 or later model year PHEVs and BEVs" and vehicles running in Ontario pilot programmes. Explicitly NOT eligible: "low-speed vehicles, e-bikes, motorcycles, off-road vehicles, conventional hybrid electric vehicle (HEVs), vehicles that have been converted to plug-in capability, commercial vehicles with a registered gross weight (RGW) of more than 4,500 kg". Note the PHEV inclusion, the Ontario test is a plug, not a tailpipe, which is the exact inverse of the British reg. 16(11)(a) "cannot produce any tailpipe emissions" test.
- Restrictions
- ServiceOntario, verbatim: "Green vehicle licence plates are available at any ServiceOntario centre. Online orders and personalized green vehicle licence plates are not available." and "Green licence plates are not customizable with the Veteran licence plate design or other personalized licence plate design." The plates are OPTIONAL and cost the same as ordinary plates, so a green plate proves an eligible powertrain and its absence proves nothing.
Legal basis and sources
- ontario.ca https://www.ontario.ca/page/get-green-licence-plate
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ontario
This plate in your app
The series id is ca-on-green-2010. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Ontario's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-on \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-on-green-2010")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-on/ca-on-green-2010.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-on/ca-on-green-2010/template.svg