Hi!
Three has started selling electric scooters (Xiaomi m365). But I’m wondering is this legal to ride in Ireland? 

Depends if they are motor assisted or fully motorised, if the latter I presume they require insurance, tax and registration

I suppose this is motor-assisted because you need to gain some speed and then the motor starts working but as soon it starts it will continue working without need to push more. 

https://www.independen...-tieup-37479634.html

Hi All

The Road Safety Authority (RSA) considers that an electric scooter may be a mechanically propelled vehicle which if in a public place is subject to all of the regulatory controls applying to other vehicles which include that it be roadworthy, registered, taxed and insured. A user of an electric scooter must hold an appropriate driving licence and a crash helmet. It is illegal for a person under the age of 16 to use a mechanically propelled vehicle in a public place.

You are advised to consult the following for further information regarding electric scooters  here

Thanks

What about the insurance? where I will get an insurance for these vehicles? Thanks!

Have you checked that the indo was correct before you quoted them. Because they weren't.

The media are wrong so often. How anyone can blindly accept what they publish without checking it.

So what was wrong?

RSA sucking the fun out of everything as per usual. Won't be bothering with them so.

A scooter does not start like an eBike. Even if it did, that still would not make them similar. 
They are implying a Scooter is just like a eBike in Law. It isn't. At least not currently. 
What defines an eBike is described in law. 

You wont. And you won't tax em. Or get an engineering cert for them.

For use on private land only. 

I'm probably not alone in day dreaming about how I can get to work off road or on cycle paths. I can do it about 65% of the way this far.

I've cycled the route but it will have to be different on a scooter.

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I have ordered one of these... At first I was thinking about xiaomi scooter. It looks cool, but you get tyre puncture often and it's really hard to change the tube. Also the power goes down rapidly when the battery is under 50%. So forget about going up the hill when the battery is low. I was thinking using it to go to and from the Luas. But then I thought that maybe, I could skip the Luas all together and just scoot all they way to work. And started to look for something more powerful, because from city centre to stepaside, it's about 10 km up the hill. I wanted cool design like xiaomi, more power, suspension and bigger wheels so the broken road and potholes wouldn't be an issue. And to keep the weight of the scooter under 20 Kg. Finally I found a perfect scooter – Dualtron Spider. It's much more expensive but it will last and I will feel much safer on it. I contacted about 10 different insurance companies, but non of them would help me with quote. I'll keep trying to get a quote and to make my commute as legal as possible. Ideal scenario would be, if the government allowed electric scooters in cycling lane if they don't go faster then 50 km/h. 

.. 50 would make them faster than car limit in many places. Which seems illogical.