Here's how California's license plates will look different next year

Here's how California's license plates will look different next year

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. The DMV told the outlet that the current license plate format will be exhausted at some point of next year. That format — one number, followed by three letters, then three more numbers — has been in use since 1980 beginning with 1AAA000. So after …

California moves to crack down on license plate concealing devices with steep new fines of up to $10,000 per violation

Assemblywoman Catherine Stefani has AB 1085 legislation directly targeting sellers and producers of license plate concealing devices