imma pull u here to continue the chat, so we don’t derail Artem’s thread.
its a long read, walls of text, either grab a cup of coffee or skip to TL:DR
actually in HK, there is a definition of what “vehicle” is. in short, anything that isn’t powered by human but can carry a person and move is define as vehicle, even those little battery powered toy car that baby can sit inside is also technically a vehicle. now this was fine, as those toy car are consider toys, and noone actually try to mod them to get on roads anyway, law was not violated, noone cared.
how does electric vehicle went from illegal to legal
when the first hybrid car came out, gov’ did nothing as they are still living in the stone age, and also those cars were still powered by gas (partly), a car is a car, licensed and insurance all that crap. then came along Daddy Elon’s Tesla, fully electric car that consumed 0 fossil fuel. shit hit the fan real fast, as gasline companies (yes, companies) has full control of gas prices (basically they price all different types of gas around the same price with each other, so no matter where u go, shit cost the same).They demanded Tesla get gas tax as well, but how? S3XY doesn’t run on dinosaur juice. thats when the vehicle definition changed to include all battery-powered-motor-operated-human-carry-machine. if it wasn’t for this change, tesla and other full electric car would have been illegal as well, but eventually it won’t be, because of public demand.
now, since all battery powered human carry machine is define as vehicle, naturally, a vehicle require licenses to operate, which makes it that now even baby toy cars needs a license, then gov’ added exceptions, vehicle operating in privately own area doesn’t need license, but u say PEV is street use, welll yes, so technically if u can somehow obtain a PEV license, u can ride it on street. how to obtain the license u ask? there is no way u can. the transport department does not have such license that u can get, it simply doesn’t exist, even if they do, to be actually street legal, u need insurance, which no insurance company would sign such contract…so now u know
TL:DR its not possible to obtain PEV license in HK, so shit will forever be illegal, unless gov’ made PEV an exception, so its not define as vehicle.
e: i forgot to mention one thing, gov’ can’t tax something u made at home, so that’s also why there is no licnese for PEV, even with prebuilt made by the most well known company, the gov’ will pull the safety uno reverse card, so…again, not license-able. im getting tired of this shit, but hey, 0 import tax, can’t beat that 