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The Future is Closer than you Think...® |
As of November, 2020, there were 276,491,174 motor vehicles on the roads in the United States. This includes over 108 million automobiles, 158 million trucks, nearly 9 million motorcycles and just under 1 million buses. Each is required by law to display either one or two license plates. There has been little to no innovation in license plates for the past 126 years. License plates first became available in Florida in 1906. Those original plates were crafted out of dark leather and metal lettering. A whopping 174 vehicles were registered, most of them powered by steam. There was no Department of Motor Vehicles, no tag agencies and most residents bought their plates at local hardware stores.
But the leather didn't hold up too well in the subtropical climate. By 1910, the state re-designed the plates to be all-metal, then porcelain, and eventually tin. (Today, the plates are made with a reflective metal material that often glints in the sunlight.)
The Florida Legislature launched the state's first uniform license plate in 1917; these were steel plates with yellowish lettering. Florida only requires a license plate on the rear of the vehicle.
In the United States and its territories, 19 require only one license plate on the rear of a vehicle, 34 require 2 plates, front and back, although 15 of those only require one rear plate for truck tractors, trailers, motorcycles and special equipment.
The deployment of the electronic digital license plate will yield immeasurable returns to the states, its drivers and insurers. Perhaps the most significant return on investment will be public safety, which will result from ridding the nation’s highways of uninsured motorists.
The only available digital license plate on the market today is the RPlate created by ReviverMX. Reviver has been quite successful in its fund-raising and participated in a testing program in the state of California which demonstrated the viability of the digital license plate. Reviver, formerly based in the Silicon Valley area and now based in Sacramento, received their first “exterior display” patent in 2015, some six years after Compliance Innovations patent was issued. Reviver has a formidable public relations capability, and their communications has generated awareness of the product throughout the US and now the world. The marketing of the product by Reviver, in the words of its own CEO, will prove to have been invaluable and enhance any competitor's acceptance into the marketplace, as the digital license plate becomes more acceptable in the public jargon. The race is on!
But the leather didn't hold up too well in the subtropical climate. By 1910, the state re-designed the plates to be all-metal, then porcelain, and eventually tin. (Today, the plates are made with a reflective metal material that often glints in the sunlight.)
The Florida Legislature launched the state's first uniform license plate in 1917; these were steel plates with yellowish lettering. Florida only requires a license plate on the rear of the vehicle.
In the United States and its territories, 19 require only one license plate on the rear of a vehicle, 34 require 2 plates, front and back, although 15 of those only require one rear plate for truck tractors, trailers, motorcycles and special equipment.
The deployment of the electronic digital license plate will yield immeasurable returns to the states, its drivers and insurers. Perhaps the most significant return on investment will be public safety, which will result from ridding the nation’s highways of uninsured motorists.
The only available digital license plate on the market today is the RPlate created by ReviverMX. Reviver has been quite successful in its fund-raising and participated in a testing program in the state of California which demonstrated the viability of the digital license plate. Reviver, formerly based in the Silicon Valley area and now based in Sacramento, received their first “exterior display” patent in 2015, some six years after Compliance Innovations patent was issued. Reviver has a formidable public relations capability, and their communications has generated awareness of the product throughout the US and now the world. The marketing of the product by Reviver, in the words of its own CEO, will prove to have been invaluable and enhance any competitor's acceptance into the marketplace, as the digital license plate becomes more acceptable in the public jargon. The race is on!
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Reviver CEO Robert Wood claims that they will have 100,000 digital license plates on the roads by the end of 2021 and 10 million in the US and Middle East by 2025 and he also believes that in 20 years, every new vehicle will be equipped with a digital license plate as standard. He also stated that Hyundai are rolling out their all electric vehicle which will come with the digital plate installed in California and Arizona.
Mr. Wood stated in a webinar in May 2021 that Reviver “embrace and support competitors as it will help with recognition of the product and the technology.”
A bill has been filed for the Florida 2022 Legislative session to compel FLHSMV to commence a pilot program and have digital license plates introduced throughout Florida by 2025.
Mr. Wood stated in a webinar in May 2021 that Reviver “embrace and support competitors as it will help with recognition of the product and the technology.”
A bill has been filed for the Florida 2022 Legislative session to compel FLHSMV to commence a pilot program and have digital license plates introduced throughout Florida by 2025.
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In the fourth quarter of 2020, there were nearly 280 million motor vehicles operating on roads throughout the United States, more than any other country in the world.
As of May 13, 2021, there were 38.6 million licensed vehicles in Great Britain, 2.1 million vehicles were registered for the first time in Great Britain during 2020, which included 179,000 ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs), registered for the first time, an increase of 125% on 2019. The overall proportion of new vehicle registrations that were ULEVs in the UK increased significantly during the course of 2020. The proportion grew from 5.1% in January 2020, up to 17.8% in December 2020. The overall proportion for 2020 was 8.4%, compared to 2.7% in 2019.
The most popular new car models registered in Great Britain in 2020 were Ford Fiesta (48,000), Vauxhall Corsa (46,000) and Volkswagen Golf (44,000). |
During the UK lockdown (applied from 23 March 2020), vehicle dealerships and showrooms were required to close, removing the main method by which new vehicles are sold in the UK, which had a heavy impact on new registrations during 2020 Q2. These restrictions were subsequently lifted at various times for the devolved countries of the UK - England (1 June), Northern Ireland (8 June), Wales (22 June), and Scotland (29 June).
In 2020, there was continued decline in new diesel car registrations in Great Britain, falling by 51% compared to 2019. Over the same period, new petrol car registrations fell 35%. Diesel car registrations have been falling in recent years since peaking in 2016. Over the four year period from 2016 to 2020, new diesel car registrations fell 77%. |
By contrast, new registrations of alternative fuel cars increased sharply by 87% in 2020 compared to 2019. More new alternative fuel cars (338,000) were registered this year than new diesel cars (295,000).
In 2020, across all new alternative fuel car registrations in Great Britain, there were 164,000 Hybrid Electric (HEVs), 107 thousand Battery Electric (BEVs), 67,000 Plug-in Hybrid Electric (PHEVs), and fewer than 1,000 using other alternative fuel types.
New registrations of BEV cars nearly tripled in 2020 (+184%) compared to 2019, with more registered than in all previous years combined (2001 to 2019 new registrations: 101,000), which equates to 51% of all new BEV car registrations since 2001 occurring in 2020.
New registrations of BEV cars nearly tripled in 2020 (+184%) compared to 2019, with more registered than in all previous years combined (2001 to 2019 new registrations: 101,000), which equates to 51% of all new BEV car registrations since 2001 occurring in 2020.
In 120 years there has been a tremendous evolution of what is arguably two of the three most important elements of the automobile, the car itself and the key – but what happened to the license plate? Why are we still seeing a 12” by 6” piece of metal or plastic fastened to the front and/or back of such high-tech vehicles? Click here for more.
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