United Kingdom number plate: Green zev
Issued today 2020 to today. Electric plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), for the Secretary of State for Transport. One of 10 United Kingdom number plates.
Every design of this plate 3
The same registration series, issued on 3 looks. Same format, same size; pick one to see it above.
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Rear plate (yellow) default
2020 to today
Black characters on yellow with the green flash at the left (reg 16(4A)-(4B)).
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Front plate (white)
2020 to today
Black characters on white with the green flash at the left.
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Rear plate, flash with the UK identifier and Union flag
2021 to today
The green device may carry one identifier with one flag above it (reg 16(4D)).
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LL99 LLL, for exampleMY02 ZRO(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
- 2020 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Electric: EV-distinct plates or suffixes (German E, CN green plates). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Rear plate (yellow)#FFCC00Front plate (white)#FFFFFF - About this plate
- The flash is OPTIONAL, a zero-emission vehicle without one is entirely lawful, so a green flash is evidence of a ZEV and its absence is evidence of nothing.
- Format notes
- THE MARK IS UNCHANGED AND THAT IS THE POINT: a British zero-emission vehicle is NOT identifiable from its registration string. Contrast the German E-Kennzeichen, which appends a literal "E" to the Erkennungsnummer and is therefore parseable.
- Who can have one
- Reg 16(11)(a), verbatim: an "'eligible vehicle' means a vehicle to which these regulations apply and which cannot produce any tailpipe emissions." Note what this is NOT: it is not a tax class, not a CO2 threshold and not a battery-capacity test, so a plug-in hybrid is excluded by construction.
Legal basis and sources
- reg 16(4A)-(4D) and (11), inserted by The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1276) regs 1, 4, in force 8.12.2020: Pantone 7481c, 40-50 mm, retroreflective,... https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/561/regulation/16
- INF104 § 09: 'From 8 December 2020 eligible zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) are permitted to display a green flash on the left hand side of the number plate' https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6694e379fc8e12ac3edafc60/inf104-vehicle-registration-numbers-and-numbe...
- 'display a green flash, if you have a zero-emission vehicle' https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/rules-number-plates
This plate in your app
The series id is gb-green-zev-2020. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of United Kingdom's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/gb \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "gb-green-zev-2020")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/gb/gb-green-zev-2020.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/gb/gb-green-zev-2020/template.svg
