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Electric Vehicles: Bicycles

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Question for Department for Transport

UIN 2003, tabled on 13 February 2020

Question

Stephen McPartland
Conservative
Stevenage
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to allow fully electric bikes to be registered as a category with the DVLA.

Answer

Rachel Maclean
Conservative
Redditch
Commons

Answered on

24 February 2020

A power-assisted bicycle, which is propelled solely by electricity and intended for use on public roads, must be registered with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. However, there is an exemption from registration and licensing in Great Britain for low powered bicycles, which cannot exceed 15 mph and have a battery of 250 watts or lower.

The Department for Transport is reviewing the regulations that apply to small, electric vehicles known as micromobility vehicles as part of its review into regulation of innovative transport technologies and business models. A call for evidence is due to be published in the next few weeks. This will include questions about how small, electric vehicles such as fully electric cycles should be regulated in the future.

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