Green number plates on non-BEV'S

[Irata]

UK classification is based on the official WLTP CO2 emissions rating. A PHEV will have a very low CO2 rating but it won’t be zero. Only zero rated vehicles qualify for a green stripe number plate, which today are BEV and HFCVs.

Why officially they always feel need to word things ridiculously more complex than it needs to be is beyond me.

 

[candida]

the plate manufacturers aren't checking closely enough.

Plate manufacturers don't need to check at all. You tick the box that says "show plates" and don't have to go through that faff in Halfords of showing your V5. Hence the rash of "4D" plates and egregious mis-spacing, all because they changed the regs because of a largely mythical cloning problem...

As a wise engineer once said "the more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain"

 

[MrBadger]

I recently heard that hybrid vehicles didn’t need an emissions test as part of MOT either. I haven’t checked but it surprised me. Part of that conversation was that was how some JLR vehicles will manage to pass their MOT’s.

 

[MrT3]

I recently heard that hybrid vehicles didn’t need an emissions test as part of MOT either. I haven’t checked but it surprised me. Part of that conversation was that was how some JLR vehicles will manage to pass their MOT’s.

Hybrid vehicles don't have an emissions test within the MOT. I believe it is because they don't have the equipment/knowledge to put the vehicle into the special mode required to keep the engine running.

 

[Meltroi]

definitely not a bev/phoebe/hybrid, not sure what the point is aside from maybe middle finger to electric drivers?

 

[NewbieT]

Probably doesn’t know what the green stripe is for and just wanted the car to look newer than it is.

 

[candida]

I’ve just had new plates and don’t bother with the green stripe

 

[M1tch]

I hate the green stripe. Looks stupid, achieves nothing and have so many people ask what it’s for! What a waste of time, effort and money - in a time where nobody has any time or money…..

 

[candida]

I hate the green stripe. Looks stupid, achieves nothing and have so many people ask what it’s for! What a waste of time, effort and money - in a time where nobody has any time or money…..

At best the stripe is virtue signalling on the cheap. When I wanted to do virtue signalling I had to spend fifty grand on a Tesla

 

[Jason71]

At best the stripe is virtue signalling on the cheap. When I wanted to do virtue signalling I had to spend fifty grand on a Tesla

They should have just got one of these instead of the Green plate

I wanted to put one on my wife's mini but she wasn't having it