In Milan or Paris curves in. long on the streets, well, E could be a scooter soon in Germany. The Cabinet has decided on the admission. How can turning the E-Scooter to Transport?

Lars Thüner in Cologne has not been waiting for: He sold for years, E-scooter in his little E-mobility store on Cologne’s outskirts. Even if his customers are not allowed to use this scooter in the traffic until today. “People write to me, call, ask, when it is decided, and then I say, deliver My importers will, as soon as it is clear,” he says.

In the United States has long been a Hit

abroad have Long been a E-scooter in the traffic: for example in Madrid, Tel Aviv, Paris or Washington. Especially in the United States, the business with the new means of locomotion is booming. Especially the Sharing variant is good there, but it also makes for resentment.

Because often users leave at the end of your loan, the electric scooter just lying around in the area. A Problem to be reckoned with in Germany, too, is, in this respect, E-scooter will be a similar Hit after they are approved. The Federal government has already given the green light. Now, you just need to agree to the Federal Council.

But that was not the main problem, which is why approval took longer than anywhere else in the world. The biggest sticking point here was the safety, and the question of how they can be integrated in the road.

In other countries, like here in the Danish capital, Copenhagen – E-scooter long for the city’s image.

Ministry of transport of E-scooters free

The Federal Ministry of transport has established a set of rules to be able to electric micro-vehicles with handlebars for road traffic, once the Federal Council has agreed. This also includes E-scooter.

Who was previously with such a vehicle on the road, in fact, this is not legal. Only in a German city, there has been Tests with the new means of locomotion: in Bamberg, Germany. Here the market leader Bird was allowed to present his electric scooter. As soon as the decree of the Federal Ministry of transport enters into force, is planning to upgrade the Start-up of its Bamberger fleet to 100 scooters.