Granite Bay digital license plate company ReviverMX Inc. has added Texas and Colorado to places where its plates are approved by state law.
Any legal plate has reciprocity for other states, so that a California digital plate is acceptable in any other state, but state laws have to be amended to make digital plates legal to be issued by states.
"Texas is huge, and Colorado was opportunistic. A lot of fleets run through Colorado, and the approval came very quickly," Neville Boston, Reviver co-founder and chief strategy officer, told the Business Journal.
Texas has the largest number of registered vehicles after California.
Reviver’s Rplates are available for sale in Texas now and they will be available soon in Colorado, he said.
Reviver's digital license plates are legal for sale and registration in California, Michigan and Arizona for passenger cars and commercial fleet vehicles, and 10 more states are on the way, Boston said.
Reviver’s Rplates are now being installed by 190 car dealerships on new passenger cars and trucks, and the company earlier this year rolled out its RFleet digital license plates for fleet managers.
The digital plates automate annual registration, feature geotracking, and they can display custom messages. The Reviver plate uses a bistable digital screen, which requires no flowing electrical current to show an image.
The RFleet Rplate offers fleet managers real-time vehicle tracking, geofencing, trip logging and speeding alerts. The plates have a mode that flashes "STOLEN" if the vehicle is stolen. And Reviver is adding functionality including automatically paying and tracking bridge and road tolls, which will be software that can be updated to all existing Rplates in the next few months, Boston said.
Automating paying tolls is something customers have been asking Reviver to include for some time, he said.
Reviver doesn’t give out revenue numbers, he said. The 2009 startup moved to Granite Bay from the East Bay in 2020.
