Iceland license plate: Moped

Issued today Documented since 2003. Moped plates for moped and quadricycle, issued by Samgöngustofa (Icelandic Transport Authority). One of 11 Iceland license plates.

Iceland license plate, Moped (documented since 2003), sample BO-482

Format, years and the law

Format
LL-999, for example BO-482 (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
Documented since 2003; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Moped: insurance/registration plates for mopeds (NL/DE small plates). Issued for moped and quadricycle.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #003399
Size
168 × 133 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE BLUE MOPED PLATE, Iceland inverts the usual convention, putting the colour in the GROUND and the white in the characters, so a létt bifhjól plate is the visual negative of an ordinary plate.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 20. gr.: blue ground with white border, characters and bandstrik on a létt bifhjól. https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/751-2003
  2. gerð E and the orange flokkur I variant. https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/1515-2020

This plate in your app

The series id is is-moped-2003. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Iceland's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/is \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "is-moped-2003")'