Do you need a license to drive a low-speed electric car?

In recent years, the low-speed electric vehicle with its low price is easy to operate advantage in the third and fourth tier cities and the vast rural areas rapidly developed, it brings convenience to people at the same time, but also has brought a variety of safety risks to the road traffic. Among these hidden dangers, low-speed electric vehicle drivers driving without a license, the lack of traffic safety awareness of the phenomenon is controversial, especially some low-speed electric vehicle on the highway rampage, it is easy to cause safety accidents.

So, do low-speed electric car drivers need a driver's license?

Should not test driver's license laws and regulations say of calculate

According to China's road traffic safety law, any vehicle with a maximum design speed of more than 20 km/h and two or more wheels is regarded as a motor vehicle. Highway driving motor vehicles need a driving license, no driving license is a license without driving.

The top speed of the low-speed electric vehicle is much higher than 20 km/h, which belongs to the category of motor vehicles. That is to say, low-speed electric vehicle drivers need to obtain a driving license to hit the road.

Miao polder, minister of the ministry of industry and information technology, has publicly stated that after the new national standard for low-speed electric vehicles is issued, supervision and regulation should be strengthened to regulate low-speed electric vehicles according to the standard of motor vehicles. Low-speed electric vehicles must be licensed by the public security department, and drivers must obtain a driving license, so as to truly ensure road traffic safety.

In low-speed electric cars for the second time standard after the meeting, director of China automotive engineering society, the national standardization of auto electric cars quan-shi Chen also revealed, deputy director of the professional committee of low-speed electric cars of a major change in management ideas of new gb, low-speed electric cars on the road to be qualified, standard, licences, driver's license, insurance and other five requirements.

In other words, no matter according to the existing road traffic safety law or the new national standard, low-speed electric vehicle drivers who want to get on the road qualification need to obtain a driving license.

What kind of driver's license is a problem

Despite the need to get your driving license is an established fact, but drivers need to depend on what type of driver's license is not sure, the main reason is the industry of low-speed electric car authentication remains controversial, and low-speed electric car finally is classified as category of passenger car or motorcycle category, will be directly related to the type of low-speed electric vehicle driver's license and difficulty level.

According to several standard meetings held by low-speed electric vehicles, the new national standard seems to be more inclined to classify low-speed electric vehicles into passenger vehicles. According to the existing types of driver's licenses for passenger cars, C2 driver's license is closer to the driving conditions of low-speed electric vehicles.

Whether it can be carried out smoothly is also a question

From the current market situation of low-speed electric vehicles, low-speed electric vehicles are mostly sold to rural areas and the urban and rural areas, and the consumer groups are mainly middle-aged and elderly people. The reason for these people to buy low-speed electric vehicles is not only the high cost performance, but also the need for license plate and driving license. This also means that after the new national standard is issued, the five requirements of qualification, standard, license, driving license and insurance required for low-speed electric vehicles on the road will not be implemented smoothly in these regions, and the expansion of low-speed electric vehicle market will also be affected.

The implementation of the new national standard will affect the expansion of the low-speed electric vehicle market, but this effect is only temporary. Battery China believes that in the absence of relevant standards constraints, low-speed electric vehicle market in the rapid growth of a lot of industry problems at the same time, this lack of constraints of high-speed growth against the law of sustainable development. The development of low-speed electric vehicle market requires industry standards and the norms and guidance of laws and regulations. Even if these norms and guidance will affect the speed of development in the early stage of the market, in the long run, the low-speed electric vehicle market will certainly move towards a healthy and sustainable development path.

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