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SAN DIEGO — The California Department of Motor Vehicles has announced plans to introduce a new license plate format in 2026, as the current system is projected to exhaust all available combinations.

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 next year, according to the state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). This has prompted the department to prepare the launch of a new ...

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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One 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 is quickly ...

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 ...