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There’s only about 18 months’ worth of license plate numbers left in California under the decades-old numbering scheme, prompting the Department of Motor Vehicles to hit the gas on its transition plan ...

California is expected to run out of license plate numbers by the end of 2025. The current system for non-commercial vehicles, which consists of one number, three letters, and three numbers, was ...

Back in 1980, the Golden State adopted a new numbering scheme for its passenger-car license plates: A number followed by three letters followed by three numbers, i.e. "1AAA000." Given new car sales at ...