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China license plate: New energy large

Issued today 2016 to today. Electric plates for truck and bus, issued by 公安部交通管理局 (Traffic Management Bureau, Ministry of Public Security). One of 22 China license plates.

China license plate, New energy large (2016 to today), sample 京A88562D
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Format, years and the law

Format
L999999, for example 京A88562D (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Same powertrain letter as the small NEV plate, D battery electric, F plug-in hybrid or fuel cell, on the yellow-green split ground of large vehicles. The reported positions (letter first on small plates, last on large) have no primary source; treat them as folklore.

D
纯电动 (battery electric)
F
非纯电动 (non-pure-electric, plug-in hybrid, fuel cell and the rest)

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

Years issued
2016 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Electric: EV-distinct plates or suffixes (German E, CN green plates). Issued for truck and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #57B948
About this plate
The large new-energy vehicle plate, the yellow-and-green split plate, for the vehicle sizes that would otherwise take the yellow large-vehicle plate. Modelled as its own series rather than a colour variant because the Ministry names the two grounds separately and because the two are scoped to different vehicle sizes; the split proportions and the plate dimensions are unsourced.

Legal basis and sources

  1. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20161122160811/http://www.mps.gov.cn/n2254098/n4904352/c5550094/content.html
  2. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20181024152732/http://www.mps.gov.cn/n2253534/n2253535/n2253537/c5757013/content.html

This plate in your app

The series id is cn-nev-large-2016. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of China's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/cn \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "cn-nev-large-2016")'
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