As of Tuesday, July 1, 2025, paper license plates are no longer in the state of Texas. Instead, it's all metal from the very ...

Nestled on 12th Street in Sacramento, Jim Denny’s has been a fixture in California’s capital city for generations. The classic red and white exterior with that iconic sign announcing “HAMBURGERS” in ...

Starting in 2026, California will switch to a mirrored format: three numbers, three letters, and a final number. For example, a license plate could read "000AAA1." ...

It’s official: California’s love affair with cars is so intense, we’re about to literally run out of license plate numbers. After nearly 45 years of the trusty old format—one number, three ...

How did California run out of license plate numbers for its drivers? The system that they currently use in California has had some thought put into it. In the current system, rolled out in 1980, they ...

In its current form, California's license plate number recipe has been #XXX### for nearly 45 years, starting at license plate number 1AAA000 in 1980. According to a San Francisco Chronicle article ...

Some 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 projects ...

Prior to 1980, California license plates followed a different, shortened format. The six-figure plates consisted of three numerals followed by three letters. What comes next?

California’s standard automobile license plates have a configuration of one number, followed by three letters, followed by three numbers, according to Ronald Ongtoaboc, spokesperson for the DMV.

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 ...

The existing license plate format, introduced in 1980, follows a sequence of one number, three letters, and three numbers, for example 1ABC234.