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Hi all!
I have been studying how to make an electric conversion street legal in Spain. Every EU country has different regulations; and some are more friendly than others like Germany or the UK. However it seems that in the near future the rules will be standard for all EU countries and conversions will be much more easy.
In my particular case in Spain, although it is allowed to retrofit a motorcycle to electric, there is no availabe certificated kit on the market which makes virtually impossible to transform a motorbike, unless you pay a lab to certificate your transformation kit.
Paying a lab will represent, at least if everything goes smooth, something in between 6000 to 10000E to get the papers.
If there was a kit available on the market the transformation would only cost 300E in paperwork fees which is not much.
Although investing 10000E seems a bit pricey for a single enthusiast, it seems surprising that no electric motor/kit manufacturers has done it yet. I bet that investing in tests/certification would serve for most EU countries and represent a big market for their products.
Spain has recently changed the laws to make retrofit possible and France as well, but still no manufacturer has dare to certify their kits. I have found in Fance a company who does retrofit but only to a few sprecific motorbike models, and probably those kits are not certified for Spain
https://www.noil-motors.com/nos-modeles/
Perhaps I am wrong, If so please let me know if there is any kit supplier/manufacturer who markets certified electric transformation kits out there?
BTW,I did this little beast, see attachments below, which was intended to be a pedal chopper but the frame was two wide for pedals so I transformed it with a junkyard kawasaki wheel. One option was to put a bicycle electric kit with throttle but find out that it was ilegal without pedals. That is when my research about motorcycle retrofit was started...
Thanks,
I have been studying how to make an electric conversion street legal in Spain. Every EU country has different regulations; and some are more friendly than others like Germany or the UK. However it seems that in the near future the rules will be standard for all EU countries and conversions will be much more easy.
In my particular case in Spain, although it is allowed to retrofit a motorcycle to electric, there is no availabe certificated kit on the market which makes virtually impossible to transform a motorbike, unless you pay a lab to certificate your transformation kit.
Paying a lab will represent, at least if everything goes smooth, something in between 6000 to 10000E to get the papers.
If there was a kit available on the market the transformation would only cost 300E in paperwork fees which is not much.
Although investing 10000E seems a bit pricey for a single enthusiast, it seems surprising that no electric motor/kit manufacturers has done it yet. I bet that investing in tests/certification would serve for most EU countries and represent a big market for their products.
Spain has recently changed the laws to make retrofit possible and France as well, but still no manufacturer has dare to certify their kits. I have found in Fance a company who does retrofit but only to a few sprecific motorbike models, and probably those kits are not certified for Spain
https://www.noil-motors.com/nos-modeles/
Perhaps I am wrong, If so please let me know if there is any kit supplier/manufacturer who markets certified electric transformation kits out there?
BTW,I did this little beast, see attachments below, which was intended to be a pedal chopper but the frame was two wide for pedals so I transformed it with a junkyard kawasaki wheel. One option was to put a bicycle electric kit with throttle but find out that it was ilegal without pedals. That is when my research about motorcycle retrofit was started...
Thanks,