Norway license plate: Electric
Issued today 1999 to today. Electric plates for car and van, issued by Statens vegvesen. One of 17 Norway license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LL 99999(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
- 1999 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Electric: EV-distinct plates or suffixes (German E, CN green plates). Issued for car and van.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 520 × 110 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE EV LETTER SERIES. NOT A LEGAL CLASS, and this is an evidenced negative worth having: neither FOR-1990-01-25-92 kapittel 2 nor kjøretøyforskriften kapittel 39 mentions elbil, elektrisk drift or EL-kjennemerke anywhere. The allocation is made under the § 39-1 delegation and published only on the authority's website. No government page states it. The best available source is a 2016 TV2 report quoting Statens vegvesen ("De ble innført i 1999"); the more precise 1 January 1999 appears only on no.wikipedia, resting on that same report. Two sibling series are recorded on the same authority page and are NOT modelled separately, having no distinct design or period evidence: GA for gas-driven and HY for hydrogen-driven vehicles.
- How numbers are issued
- Nationwide and NON-GEOGRAPHIC, an electric vehicle takes an E-series combination wherever in the country it is registered, which is exactly why these combinations are excluded from the trafikkstasjon allocation. Series are opened as each fills: EL first, then EK, and so on.
Legal basis and sources
- Statens vegvesen, 'Felles bokstavkombinasjoner': 'Elektriskdrevet kjøretøy: EL EK EV EB EC ED EE EF EH EJ EN EP ER EA EU'. https://www.vegvesen.no/kjoretoy/eie-og-vedlikeholde/skilt/skiltserier/
- 2026-07-16): the EL series introduced 1 January 1999, and the approximate dates at which each later series opened. https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjennemerke_for_motorkj%C3%B8ret%C3%B8y_i_Norge
This plate in your app
The series id is no-electric-1999. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Norway's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/no \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "no-electric-1999")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/no/no-electric-1999.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/no/no-electric-1999/template.svg