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Maximum speed of 12.5 mph, that's not great. Why do they not simply let electric scooters be treated the same as bikes?
by opportune 6y ago
Maximum speed of 12.5 mph, that's not great. Why do they not simply let electric scooters be treated the same as bikes?
- andylynch 6y agoThe law is out of date. e-bikes are just cycles under the road transport act, electric scooters are 'mechanically propelled vehicles' - i.e. just like cars and trucks. In theory a scooter would be legal on roads if you could convince the DfT you met the safety regs, had a type certificate, license plate, VIN etc - it would still be illegal to use on a bike lane and I don't know that anyone has managed to do this!
- mattlondon 6y agoOr 15.5 potentially. I believe that the popular Xiaomi m365 does 15.5mph I agree it is not super-fast, but for use in urban environments 15mph would be pretty usable I reckon. My pre-lockdown commute in london on the tube would take about 35 minutes door to door. Walking it is 4.2 miles, cycling 4.9 miles. lets call it 5 miles for sake of argument. So for a 12.5mph scooter it would be 24 minutes. For a 15.5mph scooter it would be 20 minutes. That is pretty good I reckon - it takes me 10 minutes to walk to the tube station, so to be half-way/almost half-way to work before I would have even got to the station would be pretty decent I think. Only thing is, this all makes sense when it is glorious sunshine and warm outside. It might be less appealing in December :-)