YOU may have noticed some cars now have a green section on the left-hand side of their numberplates these days. That green bit lets you know the car is a pure-electric model. What are green number … ...

Number plates with a green flash can be fitted to new or existing 100 percent zero-emission vehicles. In practice, this usually means electric cars, although hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles such as ...

But the primary rationale for green number plates – to facilitate the introduction of such zones and other measures encouraging people to switch to electric vehicles – no longer applies.