San Marino license plate: Electric VE

Retired 2019 to 2023. Electric plates for car and van, issued by Ufficio Registro Automezzi, Repubblica di San Marino. One of 19 San Marino license plates.

San Marino license plate, Electric VE (2019 to 2023), sample VE613

Format, years and the law

Format
VE999, for example VE613 (9 any digit)

VE stands for Veicolo Elettrico, electric vehicle, printed green like everything else on the plate. Take-up was so small that the whole green-plate experiment was wound up within four years.

VE
Veicolo Elettrico (electric vehicle)

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

Years issued
2019 to 2023. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Electric: EV-distinct plates or suffixes (German E, CN green plates). Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #4D7B2E Background #FFFFFF
Size
390 × 120 mm · every country's size
About this plate
GREEN PLATES FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES, 2019-2023. The whole regime lasted just over four years. Take-up was reported to be very small, which is the stated reason for abolition; that figure is journalistic and is not carried as data here.
About its years
Decreto Delegato 31 gennaio 2019 n. 22 is DATED 31 January 2019 and came into force that day, but it does not start the series on its own date. Its art. 4 (Decorrenza) says in terms: "Le targhe di immatricolazione dei veicoli ad alimentazione elettrica saranno rilasciate a decorrere dal 2 maggio 2019." THREE MONTHS LATER. Shipping 31 January 2019 as the series start would be exactly the Spanish error, and the instrument itself forbids it. END: repealed by DD 132/2022 art. 10 on 16 September 2022, with existing stock issuing until 30 June 2023 under art. 9(1). The series therefore runs 2 May 2019 to 30 June 2023 at the latest, both ends instrument-fixed.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Decreto Delegato 31 gennaio 2019 n. 22, artt. 1, 2, 4, the VE grammar, RAL 6018, and the 2 May 2019 issue date https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17106679.html
  2. DD 132/2022 artt. 9(1) and 10, repeal and run-off to 30 June 2023 https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17134662.html

This plate in your app

The series id is sm-electric-ve. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of San Marino's series:

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