From January 1 will have new license plates

20 September 2018

Developed new standards for motorcycles, Japanese and American cars

Soon in Russia will start issuing new license plates. Soobschaetsya that Rosstandart has already approved the new standard, although the official document is not yet published. Exclusive details shared "Kommersant".

The order of Rosstandart 555-St will take effect from 1 January 2019. He will Commission new standard "Signs state registration vehicles."

Format of certain license plates to be substantially revised. For example, the size of the motor numbers will be reduced from 245 x 160 mm to 190 x 145 mm, which is about half. State policies has finally adapted to the foreign tales, which are still the numbers simply wouldn't fit.

The good news is available for owners of Japanese and American cars, imported in circumvention of official dealers. They provided sites for more square rear of the hotel. In the end they had to bend the numbers or use different brackets. New Gosznak size 290 x 170 mm is perfect for these cars.

The new standard also introduces a special room for mopeds. In size they are similar to a new motorcycle (190 x 145mm), but they will be a different set of characters (ММ55АА77RUS is 1133АА77RUS).

This change does not end there. Special license plates will be used for the rare machines. Thus, the vintage cars will receive the additional symbol "To" before the main characters ("classic"), sport — "S" ("sport").

While the authors of the new GOST has left without consideration the idea of creating a special series of license plates for electric vehicles. It could be performed by analogy with the signs for sports and old cars, but with the letter "E".