Dear collective mind of Reddit,

I’m thinking about a fun summer project. Buy a small electric car in Norway and drive it through Denmark and Germany to Czech Republic. It will be a great newspaper article. The catch is, that it looks like, that Norway export plates are valid only in Norway and neighbour countries.

But, in Denmark, I should be able to buy local “test plates” – prøvemærker. And they should be valid in Germany too. (Than I’m almost home.)

The question is. Can I buy and put prøvemærker on a car, which was registered in Norway?

Main source of information is this page so far. [https://skat.dk/data.aspx?oid=2234514](https://skat.dk/data.aspx?oid=2234514)

Thanks for any hindshights.

3 comments

  1. If you are actually a journalist or something working on that specific story, yeah it could work. But if you are just a private citizen moving from A to B, I don’t think it’s going to fly. The test plates are for special purposed, such as trying out a car, a dealer that has to move it from one shop to another, or import/export, or some special cases such as journalists reviewing a car, maybe going to an autoshow to exhibit the car etc., they are not for general transportion, which your trip sounds like, unless you can argue you are working on a story/documentary or something about your journey, then it would be a maybe.

    But I do think your are at best skirting the rules a bit here, it doesn’t really sound like the intend of the rules. So I would be doubtful about if it works

    Also for the journalist angle to work, your primary subject needs to be motoring.

  3. Testmærker is made for a specific purpose. To get an uninsured car to the mechanic, or for a MOT roadworthy test.
    You’re not allowed to drive a car with those plates around without a purpose like above. If so everyone would just be doing that and skipping taxes.
    In stead I suggest you talk to the car owner about loaning the car for the drive home. If you pay him up front but he is still registrered as the owner you could drive all the way home and the reregister the car in Czech Republic. This is legal as insurance and everything is in order. The trick is to make the seller help you. In Denmark you have 2 weeks to transfer ownership after a car is sold. And what could make it more complicated, is if the seller need the car physically to deregister it in Norway to get the tax returned. Try asking in /Norway subreddit

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