EA rules out now — these electric combinations won’t work
After EA, nothing less than EU will follow. But then, the Norwegian Road Administration only has five electric letter combinations in reserve...
10/06/2026 07:22 | Updated 09:25
During the infancy of electric vehicles, they received EL plates in this country.
That infancy period was at least as long as a typical childhood: It took nearly 19 years for new electric vehicles to get EL plates before the EK series took over in 2016.
Since then, we’ve had registration plates with various E combinations in a somewhat random order. They were issued in the following sequence after the EK series was exhausted: EV, EB, EC, ED, EE, EF, EH, EJ, EN, EP, and ER.
Right now, it’s mainly EA plates that are installed on new electric vehicles.
Six remaining E combinations
Senior advisor Jon Terje Presthus at the Norwegian Road Administration says that after EA, the moderately EU-friendly letter combination EU will adorn newly registered electric vehicles in Norway.
Next are five more truck combination codes starting with E that will be introduced:
- The current active code combination is EA, followed by EU. Existing code combinations where the first letter is E are ES, ET, EX, EY, and EZ – but the order isn’t fixed, says Presthus.
- We are working on it
And after that, what?
– As for what will happen if there are no more code combinations starting with E, we can’t answer that yet. We are working on it, says Presthus.
Statens vegvesen also provided a slight clarification:
It’s not entirely accurate to say that all codes starting with E are pure truck license plates. There are some regular license plates starting with E, such as EZ in Bodø, but they account for very little in the overall picture, according to Vegvesen.
The others are ES (Fredrikstad), ET (Hamar), EX (Hammerfest and Finnsnes), and EY (Kirkenes).
Many choose “geographic” license plates – and some choose “personal” ones
It is also entirely possible to register electric vehicles with regular registration numbers – using letter combinations assigned to the geographic area where the traffic station that issued the plate is located.
Today, there are also around 15,000 vehicles with so-called personal license plates, distributed among electric and fossil fuel vehicles. Such plates cost 9,000 kroner, but they are valid for ten years.
In 2018, we wrote about Norwegian electric vehicle owners who clearly had fun when they customized the plates on their cars; you can read it here:
Additionally, hydrogen vehicles have their own letter combination (HY), and the same applies to gas-powered vehicles (GA).
In addition, embassy vehicles have their own letter combination (CD, standing for Corps Diplomatique), and the plates are blue with yellow letters and numbers.
Wondering where a plate in the country comes from? You can check it yourself on Statens vegvesens own information page about the various plate series.
Three things you definitely knew about plates:
A registration number consists of a combination of letters and numbers, unless it’s a personal car plate.
The number ranges for cars and trucks are from 10000 to 99999, while for other vehicles it’s from 1000 to 9999.
The special Norwegian letters Æ, Ø, and Å are traditionally not used on car plates.
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