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China Ponders Rules for Low-Speed EVs
China is reviewing proposals that would create regulations for low-speed electric vehicles, at least in the country’s largest cities, Bloomberg News reports.
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China is reviewing proposals that would create regulations for low-speed electric vehicles, at least in the country’s largest cities, Bloomberg News reports.
In China, EVs with a top speed below 70 kph (43 mph) currently are not required to meet safety standards and don’t need to be registered. Bloomberg notes these inexpensive vehicles are popular in rural areas and small cities.
Miao Wei, China’s minister of industry and information technology, says governments in large cities are pondering a move to reclassify low-speed EVs as motorcycles. Doing so would require the vehicles to be registered, a step seen as discouraging their use in already-congested urban areas.
At the same time, regulating such vehicles would give them legitimacy and support their growth as a vehicular step up from electrified bicycles, Bloomberg says.
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