Lithuania license plate: Electric

Issued today 2016 to today. Electric plates for car and van, issued by AB Regitra (State Enterprise Regitra. One of 16 Lithuania license plates.

Lithuania license plate, Electric (2016 to today), sample EK7132

Format, years and the law

Format
EL9999, for example EK7132 (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
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 #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Lithuania license plate, Electric 300×150 mm (2016 to today)

    Electric 300×150 mm

    electric · 300 × 150 mm

About this plate
Note that this is a DISTINGUISHING mark rather than a different-coloured plate: unlike China's green EV plates, the Lithuanian EV plate is an ordinary white plate whose serial begins with E, so the class is readable from the string alone, which is what makes it worth a series rather than a flag.
How numbers are issued
The second letter advances in alphabetical order across serial blocks (Regitra). This is the only published progression rule in the Lithuanian system and is the one place a Lithuanian mark carries era information.
Who can have one
rule: Originally pure electric vehicles. Regitra: from 3 April 2018 the type was extended to plug-in hybrids, vehicles with "an electric rechargeable energy storage system, which can be recharged externally".

Legal basis and sources

  1. PRIMARY (authority): E + one free letter + four digits; formats 1 and 2; white with black characters, blue EU strip and the Vytis; first available 1 July 2016; extended to plug-in hybrids from 3 April 2018 https://www.regitra.lt/en/services/state-number-plates/types-of-vehicle-registration-number-license-plates/for-electr...

This plate in your app

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

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