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 rejected more than 12,000 custom license plates between summer 2024 and 2025. Image courtesy of California Department of Motor Vehicles If you’ve traveled on California roads, you’ve likely ...

Ever noticed a clever custom license plate while traveling California roads? For every interesting license plate you’ve come across, there are numerous others that were rejected and will never see the ...

There’s only about 18 months’ worth of license plate numbers left in California under the decades-old numbering scheme, prompting the Department of Motor Vehicles to hit the gas on its transition plan ...