Sweden license plate: Motorcycle

Issued today 1972 to today. Motorcycle plates for motorcycle and moped, issued by Transportstyrelsen. One of 13 Sweden license plates.

Sweden license plate, Motorcycle (1972 to today), sample ZXW 281

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example ZXW 281 (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
1972 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle and moped.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
170 × 150 mm · every country's size
  • Sweden license plate, Motorcycle 520×110 mm (1972 to today)

    Motorcycle 520×110 mm

    motorcycle · 520 × 110 mm

  • Sweden license plate, Motorcycle 300×110 mm (1972 to today)

    Motorcycle 300×110 mm

    motorcycle · 300 × 110 mm

Legal basis and sources

  1. 6 kap. 3 § ('För motorcykel och moped klass I tillhandahålls en skylt som avses i 2 § 4') and 6 kap. https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/TSFS/TSFS%202015_63k.pdf
  2. 3 kap. 4 § (one plate for motorcycle/moped klass I) and 3 kap. https://data.riksdagen.se/dokument/sfs-2019-383.html
  3. Transportstyrelsen 2013-05-08: 'Slopandet av kontrollmärkena har möjliggjort en minskning av storleken på MC-skylten. https://web.archive.org/web/20161225212648/http://www.transportstyrelsen.se/sv/press/pressmeddelanden/sveriges-regist...

This plate in your app

The series id is se-motorcycle. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Sweden's series:

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