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 ...

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 ...

TL;DR: California is on pace to run out of license plate character combinations by the end of the year. Since 1980, the state has used a sequence consisting of one number, followed by three letters, ...

California is preparing to update its standard vehicle license plate sequence for the first time in nearly half a century. The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) announced that the state’s current ...