{"id":2802,"date":"2018-12-03T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2019-02-05T22:16:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T11:16:44","slug":"can-you-use-an-electric-bike-to-take-your-motorbike-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/can-you-use-an-electric-bike-to-take-your-motorbike-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you use an electric bike to take your motorbike test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While electric bicycles have a motor, you can&#8217;t use one to take your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/learners-permit\/motorbike\/\">motorbike test<\/a> because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They don&#8217;t have indicators and other requirements that a road-registered vehicle must have.<\/li>\n<li>They aren&#8217;t (or, at least, shouldn&#8217;t be) capable of high enough speeds. The motor should be limited to 200 watts and the maximum speed should be less than 25km\/h &#8211; read more about the limitations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/electric-bikes-an-option-for-those-too-young-for-motorbikes\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Can you use an electric scooter or electric motorbike?<\/h2>\n<p>There are electric scooters on the market which comply with road regulations and you can use them to take your motorbike test if they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/why-do-novice-riders-have-to-ride-approved-motorbikes\/\">LAMS-approved<\/a> but, in general, the public has been slow to adopt electric motorbikes and scooters in Australia because we don&#8217;t have the mass-market cheap scooters that are available everywhere in places like China. <a href=\"http:\/\/amcn.com.au\/editorial\/silent-rise-electric-bike\/\">This article<\/a> has a good round-up of the challenges faced by early adopters to electric motorbikes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2803\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2803\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/electric-scooter-595x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/electric-scooter-595x532.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/electric-scooter-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/electric-scooter-768x686.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/electric-scooter.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Electric scooters could make for cheap, non-polluting, city transport, as they are already doing in many Asian cities<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While electric bicycles have a motor, you can&#8217;t use one to take your motorbike test because: They don&#8217;t have indicators and other requirements that a road-registered vehicle must have. They aren&#8217;t (or, at least, shouldn&#8217;t be) capable of high enough<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/can-you-use-an-electric-bike-to-take-your-motorbike-test\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}