National Standardization Administration: Electric vehicles with a speed of more than 20 kilometers per hour will be managed as motor vehicles. Full text: Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 6 (reported by Zhu Lisheng) - The National Standardization Administration released an explanation on the evening of December 6 regarding the standards for electric motorcycles. It stated that the newly approved and issued four "electric motorcycle standards" have clear boundaries with the "electric bicycle standards." Electric bicycles and electric lightweight motorcycles are two products with significantly different characteristics.
The explanation stated that the national standard for "General Technical Conditions for Electric Bicycles" issued in 1999 stipulates that the maximum designed speed of electric bicycles should not exceed 20 kilometers per hour, the total weight (weight) should not be greater than 40 kilograms, and the continuous mileage after one charge should be no less than 25 kilometers. Additionally, it must have a riding function. Moreover, according to China's Road Traffic Safety Law, the maximum speed of electric bicycles traveling on non-motorized vehicle lanes should not exceed 15 kilometers per hour. Currently, consumers who purchase and use electric bicycles that meet the standard are classified as non-motorized vehicles, and there is no issue of needing to obtain a driver’s license or registering a motor vehicle license plate.
The explanation introduced that the four standards, including the "General Technical Conditions for Electric Motorcycles and Electric Lightweight Motorcycles," approved this year were agreed upon by relevant departments such as the National Development and Reform Commission and public security traffic management, based on the national standard formulation and revision procedures. They were formulated through extensive solicitation of opinions from the Motorcycle Division of the National Automobile Standardization Technical Committee and repeated arguments over many years by related research institutions and experts.
According to the introduction, the standards specify that the highest designed speed of electric two-wheeled lightweight motorcycles is greater than 20 kilometers per hour but less than 50 kilometers per hour, or the weight is greater than 40 kilograms and the highest designed speed is no more than 50 kilometers per hour. In addition to the above speed and weight regulations, the standards also specify safety technical requirements for electric motorcycles in terms of power performance, steering, lighting signals, and other aspects. The National Standardization Administration stated that electric motorcycles are a type of motorcycle, and "electric motorcycles that meet the standards will be managed as motor vehicles."
Since they are considered to classify most electric vehicles as motorcycles and require them to be managed as motor vehicles, the "General Technical Conditions for Electric Motorcycles and Electric Lightweight Motorcycles" to be implemented next year has attracted attention from consumers, enterprises, and multiple parties.
Regarding data-related issues, please have the relevant personnel fill in the blanks. As one of the citizens, I only exercise my right to raise questions.
Firstly, will these involved electric bicycles automatically upgrade to motor vehicles once they are motorized? If so, this would truly be a stroke of luck for every electric bicycle! I believe they will perform at their best, striving to race across the well-off continent. As the owner, we are deeply grateful. Originally, our family has long been part of the car-owning class! We sincerely request the vehicle administration office to coordinate with relevant departments to further upgrade them into aircraft or yachts.
Therefore, secondly, if you upgrade bicycles to motor vehicles, will they travel on motor vehicle lanes or non-motor vehicle lanes? This question allows us to see whether your ethics are red or black.
Are you letting it run on non-motorized lanes? Is that just an upgrade in management? Are you discovering here an opportunity to extract benefits? Then go ahead, we warmly welcome it! But let me remind you: how unreasonable! You deliberately categorize it as a motor vehicle without proper clarification!
Or, do you place it on motor vehicle lanes? Don't be too cruel! It cannot exhibit the power performance, especially acceleration, of motor vehicles. On motor vehicle lanes, it will become very dangerous due to insufficient mobility. And once it encounters an accident with real motor vehicles, it will be like an egg hitting a stone!
Moreover, with its highest speed, on motor vehicle lanes, it purely acts as a road flow damper! As a responsible manager, based on safety and performance, even if existing electric bicycles transform into four-wheeled cars with shells and steering wheels, they should not be allowed to enter motor vehicle lanes given their current various performances.
Are you just trying to restrict the design speed of existing electric bicycles? Your legal clauses are unclear to us, and we don't understand the human technology environment when they were formulated. We just know that ordinary pedal bicycles usually have a speed of over 15 km/h; what is the actual speed of existing electric bicycles? Where is the problem? What is the basis for setting a speed limit of 20 km/h? Will those problems change drastically after being restricted to 20 km/h? Yes, you can say anything, but lacking professionalism undermines dignity, do you understand?
Or, are you just looking to collect management fees?
You should know how many hardworking people still use pedal or electric bicycles under your repeated incentives (suspected private division of state-owned interests) to encourage car consumption. For example, opening a small store, purchasing some goods, all placed on a bicycle. Why doesn't he send a car like your sir to transport the goods? You understand, it involves costs, and they cannot handle reasonable costs like illegal costs handled by big shots casually incorporated into operating costs and turned into selling prices!
Just an example, merely reminding you that anti-people measures may win temporarily, but will surely lose in the end! The harder the win, the worse the loss!