The UK Government has announced that plates with a green flash, for electric zero CO2 emission vehicles, will be implemented soon, maybe as quickly as Autumn 2020.
Green plates are expected to have a green flash to the left hand side of the plate (as illustrated above).
Its aim is to provide a UK-wide mechanism which will enable people to spot and differentiate vehicles based on their environmental impact, help inform road-users and normalise the idea of clean vehicles on our roads. This plays an important part in encouraging road users to shift to cleaner vehicles.
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help local authorities visually identify ZEVs for the purposes of locally led policies and incentives, and local communication and awareness campaigns.
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green number plates will only be available to vehicles with zero tailpipe emissions.
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These will be non-mandatory; opt-out; available to new and existing qualifying vehicles. This includes eligible cars, vans, taxis, motorbikes, as well as buses, coaches, HGVs.
For full details please refer to the Government website below: