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China license plate: New energy small

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

Announced for five pilot cities in 2016 and nationwide within two years: six characters instead of five, a white-to-green gradient ground, and a small mark shaped like a plug and the letter E at once where the dot would otherwise sit.

China license plate, New energy small (2016 to today), sample 京A·D88562
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Format, years and the law

Format
L999999, for example 京A·D88562 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Six serial positions instead of five, on graded green, and one letter with meaning: D is 纯电动, battery electric; F is 非纯电动, everything else that plugs in or runs on fuel cells. Where in the six positions that letter sits, no public document actually says.

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 car and van.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #A9D8A0
About this plate
The small new-energy vehicle plate, the graded-green plate. FOUR THINGS ARE SOURCED VERBATIM and they are the four that matter: the serial went from five positions to SIX; the small-vehicle ground is 渐变绿 (graded green) while the large-vehicle ground is 黄绿双拼 (a yellow-green split); the letter D means 纯电动 (battery electric) and F means 非纯电动 (plug-in hybrid, fuel cell and the rest); and the plate carries a dedicated identifier mark. THE POSITION OF THAT LETTER IS NOT SOURCED.

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
  3. hbba.sacinfo.org.cn https://hbba.sacinfo.org.cn/stdDetail/328b77ee80fdee1dee33d20e83d01d2ad128f380aa93c7dbe5c58c67d9d2075e

This plate in your app

The series id is cn-nev-small-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-small-2016")'
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