“Some scooters should be transferred to the vehicle category with all the consequences: registration with the traffic police, OSAGO, transport tax,” the senator said.
Such a measure, in his view, is caused by the urgent need to reduce a sharp increase in the number of incidents involving similar means of individual mobility in Russia. He believes that some of the electric scooters should be transferred to the “vehicles” category and registered with the traffic police according to rules similar to those for motor vehicles. Electric scooters must be registered depending on the capacity of their batteries, maximum speed, motor power and weight, reports RIA Novosti.
At the same time, at a press conference in Izvestia, the head of the Russian traffic police, Lieutenant General Mikhail Chernikov, announced the appearance of documents regulating the rules for the use of electric scooters in our country.
“We will cover this category by the end of the year and streamline it as much as possible,” Chernikov promised.