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 ...

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Some lucky California driver will soon receive a license plate with the number 9ZZZ999, marking the end of an era for Golden State motorists. The California Department of Motor Vehicles projects it ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...