License plates for my new Model X have not arrived yet, but I did receive the title from the DMV today. I paid $847 for auto registration and my license number begins with 9K. Almost seven years ago, I got my Model S, and the license plate started with 7W.
if we assume all letter and number combinations can be used, the last five digits of the California license number can support 676,000 combinations. That is 26 x 26 x 10 x 10 x 10. If we start at 7X to 9G prefix, that is 36 different prefixes. Therefore, in the past seven years, California incremented through around 24 million passenger car license plate numbers. Does that sound legit? Am I missing something from the calculation?
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As long as I have the license plate number, I can go ahead and apply for California HOV stickers!
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