Hungary license plate: Electric 2015

Retired 2015 to 2022. Electric plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Belügyminisztérium. One of 16 Hungary license plates.

Hungary license plate, Electric 2015 (2015 to 2022), sample YHV-231

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example YHV-231 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
2015 to 2022. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Electric: EV-distinct plates or suffixes (German E, CN green plates). Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #B5E3B5
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
HUNGARY'S GREEN PLATE, FIRST GENERATION. Introduced in October 2015 for pure-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, as a coloured ground on the ordinary serial rather than as a distinct serial space. Hungary is therefore unlike China (a distinct format for NEVs) and like Austria (green LETTERING on the ordinary plate, KFG § 49 Abs. 4 Z 5) in kind, though the Austrian rule is instrument-sourced and this one is not.
About the format
A parse API must take the colour from the image, not from the string.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Hungary
  2. hu.wikipedia.org https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarorsz%C3%A1gi_forgalmi_rendsz%C3%A1mok

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is hu-electric-2015. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Hungary's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/hu \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "hu-electric-2015")'