Minnesota motorists purchased over 470,000 "Blackout" license plates in 2025, per state data, nearly doubling sales from the ...

Traffic moves along Interstate 94 near the Minnesota Highway 15 intersection near St. Cloud. Nearly a quarter of a million blackout license plates were sold to Minnesotans last year, by far the most ...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s new blackout license plates had a powerful first year of sales. More than a quarter-million vehicles in the state now have the plates featuring a simple design of white letters ...

Minnesota’s new blackout license plates are selling like hotcakes, and they have already become by far the most popular of any 123 specialty plates available. As of Monday, the Department of Vehicle ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota's "blackout" license plates are off to a red-hot sales start. In the first 100 days of 2024, the Department of Vehicle Services has sold 52,304 sets of plates. "We thought for ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz shows reporters an example of the newly available "blackout" license plates after applying for one himself Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2023, at the Driver and Vehicle Services office in ...

You may have noticed a black license plate with white lettering while driving around lately. A lot of people have. Blackout plates seem to be showing up more often, whether you’re in traffic, at your ...

ST. PAUL — Just three months after they first went on sale, nearly 50,000 of Minnesota’s new blackout license plates are on vehicles traveling the state’s highways. Predictions of high demand for the ...

Dear Answer Man: Why does Minnesota now have black license plates? We have so many options I think another one is just a waste of money. — Too Many Options. Well, this continued growth in license ...

As a librarian, Patrick Jones loves words and likes to play word games. So when he saw a specialized license plate that read “BBQ-007″while driving recently, he smiled and quickly gave it a meaning ...