Since 1980, California’s passenger car license plates have followed the same format: one number, three letters, and three numbers (think 1ABC234). But that tried-and-true combo is at the end of its ...

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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 ...

In recent weeks, San Diego drivers have been learning an expensive lesson about something most people barely think about once ...

California is nearing the end of numbers available for its current license plate format. It has taken more than 45 years to exhaust the entire available library of numbers. The change in format will ...

It was bound to happen eventually; California is about to run out of license plate numbers. That’s according to reporting from nonprofit newsroom LAist, which spoke to the Department of Motor Vehicles ...

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