What does the green license plate on a car mean?
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Car green license plate refers to new energy vehicles, which mainly include three types: pure electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles. New energy vehicles use green license plates, which aligns with their green and environmentally friendly characteristics. Additionally, green license plates make it easier to identify and distinguish new energy vehicles. Besides green license plates, there are also the most common blue license plates, yellow license plates, white license plates, black license plates, etc. Blue license plates are used for ordinary small vehicles, including special number segments for government agencies and administrative vehicles other than police vehicles. Yellow license plates are used for large vehicles, mainly including buses, transport vehicles, motorcycles, and driving school training vehicles. White license plates are used for vehicles of the national political and legal departments, such as public security, courts, procuratorates, police vehicles, and military vehicles. Black license plates are used for foreign-related vehicles, such as consulate vehicles. Usage time of new energy license plates: The first batch of new energy license plates was piloted on December 1, 2016, in five cities: Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuxi, Jinan, and Shenzhen, where the issuance of new energy vehicle license plates was carried out in sequence. On December 28, 2017, Beijing officially began using special license plates for new energy vehicles. Differences between new energy license plates and ordinary license plates:  New energy license plates have a dedicated logo, with green as the main color, representing the meaning of electric and new energy. The license plates have an additional digit compared to traditional vehicle license plates, making it easy to distinguish them from ordinary license plates. The production process has been improved, using pollution-free manufacturing methods.
