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Electric Moped/Scooter from China

  • 14-12-2019 6:25pm
    #1
    ...Ghost...
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭


    What is the situation with getting one these on the road? Most are advertised with CE and EEC certification. Is there a problem getting insurance when they are imported from the likes of china? The ones for sale here seem to be a bit of a rip-off with very little choice.

    Would rather not get a petrol yoke, as we have moved to electric vehicles.

    Here's an example I was looking at. Very simple, cheap, low range.

    eec-approved-ebike-bicycles-high-speed-electric.jpg

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  • #2
    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,373 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    Next to impossible I'd imagine. Also the CE on those usually stands for Chinese Export or something not the typical CE mark we have over here.


  • #3
    ...Ghost...
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭...Ghost...


    iwillhtfu wrote: »
    Next to impossible I'd imagine. Also the CE on those usually stands for Chinese Export or something not the typical CE mark we have over here.

    Unless they are falsely advertising, the CE is for European Conformity and the listing I linked says that they work to the EEC standard.

    It could be a load of BS, but most of the electric mopeds for sale from Irish and British retailers are made in china and can be purchased on Alibaba.

    I wanted to throw out the feelers and see if anyone had knowledge of and experience in this area. Maybe one of the UK biker forums will provide some info.

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  • #4
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,102 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    I'd say that most are like the first bikes that came from China, the UK or Irish retailer owned the name and just sourced the bikes from wherever.

    The problem with self importing is getting the Certificate of Conformity sorted, you have to get this from the EU distributor and since these have no EU distributors you'd have to submit it for conformity yourself. The savings from importing it yourself will be wiped out trying to get it registered. Then try insuring a no name bike!

    That's not even considering where you'll get spares when something goes wrong and Chinese bikes are still in the very low quality period.

    I don't doubt they we will be riding Chinese made bikes but it'll be a few years before they do what the Japanese did in the 70s.


  • #5
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    ...Ghost... wrote: »
    What is the situation with getting one these on the road? Most are advertised with CE and EEC certification. Is there a problem getting insurance when they are imported from the likes of china? The ones for sale here seem to be a bit of a rip-off with very little choice.

    Would rather not get a petrol yoke, as we have moved to electric vehicles.

    Here's an example I was looking at. Very simple, cheap, low range.

    eec-approved-ebike-bicycles-high-speed-electric.jpg


    Avoid.

    If you want to buy a chinese electric scooter, that's fine: but buy one from a shop or distributor here selling them that has had to do the VRT, registration etc (which includes all the EU homologation work).

    I've seen chinese vehicles imported here gone straight to the crusher due to lack of paperwork - the comment about CE in those cases most assuredly meant Chinese Export over anything else...........

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  • #6
    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,373 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    ...Ghost... wrote: »
    Unless they are falsely advertising, the CE is for European Conformity and the listing I linked says that they work to the EEC standard.

    I'm not sure you'd call it false advertising just falsely but definitely using an acronym and selling it to people that confuse it with the actual CE safety mark. It's a well known thing with goods from China and pretty much every product on those asian ebay sites etc


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