MADISON -- The Wisconsin Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) anticipates new vehicle license plates with seven characters will be issued beginning mid-April.
Local DMVs and 3rd party vendors will continue to issue the 6-character plates until their inventory is exhausted.
Jeremy Krueger, supervisor, License Plate Issuance Unit stated the following in a news release:
Krueger calculated that the additional character will yield 100 million combinations.
The combination on the current design reversed from letters to numbers (WRZ-999 to 123-ABC) in 2000. The new configuration will return three letters beginning with AAA- then followed by four numbers (AAA-1001). The plate artwork will stay the same.
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