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Germany license plate: Electric E

Issued today 2015 to today. Electric plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, set by the Fahrzeug-Zulassungsverordnung (FZV). One of 13 Germany license plates.

Germany license plate, Electric E (2015 to today), sample DF-IJ 513E
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-LL 999E, for example DF-IJ 513E (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The trailing E marks an electrically powered vehicle under the 2015 Elektromobilitätsgesetz, unlocking bus lanes and free parking where municipalities allow it. The letter is optional, plenty of EVs drive unbadged, and the rest decodes like any German plate.

E
elektrisch (electric vehicle)

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

Years issued
2015 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Electric: EV-distinct plates or suffixes (German E, CN green plates). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
TIME BOMB WORTH RECORDING: EmoG § 8 Abs. 2 provides that the Act ceases to be in force at the end of 31 December 2026, inside the current audit horizon.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Elektromobilitätsgesetz, Ausfertigungsdatum 05.06.2015 (BGBl. I S. 898), the enabling statute § 11 FZV keys off; note § 8 Abs. 2: the Act EXPIRES at the end of 31.12.2026 https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/emog/EmoG.pdf
  2. § 11 Abs. 1-2: an E-Kennzeichen is the § 9 Abs. 1 plate (optionally also a green or seasonal one) with 'den Kennbuchstaben "E" als amtlichen Zusatz hinter der Erkennungsnummer'; Abs. 4: the Anlage 3 badge route for... https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fzv_2023/__11.html
  3. Anlage 4 Abschnitt 5a: E-Kennzeichen executed per Abschnitt 4, plus the Saison variants and position caps https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fzv_2023/anlage_4.html
  4. 50. ÄndVstVR vom 15.9.2015, BGBl. I S. 1573, inserts § 9a FZV 2011 ('den Kennbuchstaben "E" im Anschluss an die Erkennungsnummer') and Anlage 3a; 'tritt am Tag nach der Verkündung in Kraft' = 26.9.2015, the first day... https://media.offenegesetze.de/bgbl1/2015/bgbl1_2015_36.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is de-electric-e. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Germany's series:

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