Month: May 2022

The UK making moves to legalize private e-scooters.

So far in the UK, the public has only been officially allowed to use shared electric scooters. People who own their own private escooters have been restricted to using them only on private lands and not in public at all but in reality, people have been breaking this rule quite often.

Now the cabinet and public are pondering is there any point to this rule as people brake it and making a distinction between shared and privately owned ones doesn’t really make any sense: if it’s the same scooter with the same specs it should be treated the same.

As followers of this blog might know the UK also has had escooters available for the public in the forms of shared fleets for a long time now and people have really taken a liking to them as they are especially convenient in huge cities like London where the government has introduced congestion and other limitations in a fight for a cleaner environment. In Bloomberg’s article, the committee had recognized that escooters are a “convenient, cheap and environmentally-friendly form of transport”

Thus it seems that the regulators are now waking up to the situation where they already are, people want and already use escooters so it is time to legalize it. Naturally, the legislators also take note that making an official law about scooters makes it possible to regulate them in a proper way. The speed limit is likely to stay the same at around 15.5mph. Riding would be possible on the road and not on pedestrian ways which have been discussed in an excellent column: The electric scooter ban doesn’t make sense | The Spectator.

What does it mean for the industry?

So all in all the direction of escooter has been set and step by step the regulation is coming to match the needs of the public. For the industry, manufacturers and dealers will most likely mean that in the UK and other countries where the regulations and legal status of escooters have been set the sales are more than likely to increase.

As people get the confirmation that they can legally use their own escooters and don’t need to rely on the shared ones the worries of buying a scooter and then getting fined or having the escooter confiscated are gone.

There is quite possible a group of shared scooter users who have been on the edge or on the lookout for more premium rides than what the shared ones have to offer just waiting to buy their own. Once the law is in effect this group can cause a peak in demand that’s likely last for the summer – especially as the legislators are discussing that the new rules might come to effect already this May which is the start of the peak sales and riding season for escooters.

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