What is interesting here is that electric bikes
‘exclusively’ used in race competitions and equipped with electric motors with a maximum power of over 250W and over 25km/h maximum speed do not have to be type approved. For e-MTBs that word exclusively is not used. Here it says “vehicles
primarily intended for off-road use and designed to travel on unpaved surfaces.” This means that e-MTBs with over 250W motors capable of (supported) speeds of over 25km/h fitted with knobby tyres as well as stickers stating “off-road” are excludes from the costly type approval procedures. To what extent this will trigger abuse in the near future remains at this moment the question.
Kirjanmerkit