Electric Vehicles: Speed Limits

(asked on 25th April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the assisted speed limit of electric bikes in the UK to 20mph.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 28th April 2022

The Department’s position is that the safety disbenefits of doing so would outweigh the potential benefits.

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