This bugs me. Part of the reason that I'm still hanging onto my vanity plates in the garage. It's like plate squatting.
Don't let them go! They really hiked the cost of vanity plates recently.
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This bugs me. Part of the reason that I'm still hanging onto my vanity plates in the garage. It's like plate squatting.
Just picked up my green plates... I had to wait forever, while they called the MTO to verify things etc...
The upside is that I got a 2 year old set of green plates with a very low # on them.
What's the process? Do you have to turn in the Blue plates at the same time? Costs?
When I picked my Model S up, I thought they were going to flip the plates over from my trade-in, but the Model S was already fitted with new Blue plates and I had to return the old car's plates myself. I'm still waiting for the refund (even though I've already received my $8,500 EV rebate). I was a bit pissed because I had renewed my old car's plate just before my birthday, and ended up turning them back in still before my birthday, and got dinged with some sort of service charge. They gave me a receipt and said the cheque would be in the mail. Still waiting.
Totally off topic but wondering if any Ontario owners got the green license plates? And if so, are there any highways that can actually benefit from it?
Totally off topic but wondering if any Ontario owners got the green license plates? And if so, are there any highways that can actually benefit from it?
Yes, of course there are thousands of them. Here's the very first Ontario Green Vehicle plate ever registered... GVAA 001, from back in 2010.
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Is that yours (and you), Doug?
Yep and yep. Passenger is Ian Law of ILR Car Control School.
Love the colour of your Roadster.
Did you get a heads up on the plate being available, or were you just hanging out at your local MTO office daily? ;-)
I actually delayed delivery of my car by a month and a half (extremely painful to do!) so I could take advantage of the Green Vehicle Program... i.e. get the very first $8500 rebate. As a result my car was registered with the MTO on the very first day of the Green Vehicle program. So the plate number was part timing and part sheer luck; when Tesla went to the MTO office to get my plate, it just happened to be the office that had received the 001 plate. So appropriately enough the first Green Vehicle plate ever registered was #001.
I think that's it. Oh, maybe the 417 in Ottawa.
On a small, east bound, portion of the 417 between Kanata and the 416/417 split that never sees traffic at all.
Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but for all the 2012/Signature folk, did you have a hard time getting a Green plate? My CPO Signature was delivered with blue plates almost a month ago, and the delivery specialist told me that the MTO has 2012 Teslas listed as hybrids and couldn't get me a plate. As of last week he still hadn't been able to get me a green plate, and I suspect he's moved on to other deliveries. Any experiences from other folk and suggestions for me? It just seems wrong to have a non-vanity blue plate on this car.
It would probably be wise for anyone with blue Vanity Plates to check your registration and make sure it is listed as a Model S electric vehicle. You might not even be aware of a problem until you get a Drive Clean notice in the mail!
I don't think this is an issue anymore with newer Teslas (mine is from April 2014).