The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) says the new digital number plates, which are set to be rolled out, will provide capacity for more than six million unique registrations at each DVLA centre, eliminating concerns about the repetition of letters and numbers.
The new digital number plates will feature a suffix indicating the owner’s registration centre, along with two randomly generated letters by an algorithm, a system the Authority says eliminates predictability.
The plates will be available in various categories, including government, private, commercial, electric vehicle, diplomatic, trailer, private motorcycle, commercial motorcycle, customised and ceremonial.
Speaking during a sensitisation exercise on the new plates on Friday, July 11, the Chief Executive Officer of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Julius Neequaye Kotey, explained that the new digital plates, designed using a German system, provide an extensive range of unique combinations.
“We can have another 9999GRAA, 9999GRAB, 9999GRCC, 9999GRZZ, 9999GRQQ, but with the current one, we have, if it’s 9999GR, and then that’s the end. So this one takes more numbers than the old one. So this one, with one DVLA centre, we are expected to use 6.7 million cars,,” he said.
The Authority also announced that ceremonial digital plates, which were previously limited, will be available to the public. These plates will be issued for a specified period for special occasions and can be assigned to vehicles that are already registered.
