How to register an electric car in Russia

This electric car does not require registration with the traffic police and a driver's license.

Sales of new Chinese electric vehicles BYVIN have begun in Novosibirsk.

According to the director of the Mega-Auto company, Yuri Mergel, his company began selling the new product on August 1; previously, no one had sold vehicles of this brand in Novosibirsk.

BYVIN electric car is produced in China and supplied to Russia in two body styles: a three-door hatchback and a mini-pickup. The machine has extremely modest dimensions: 2560x1300x1560 mm.

The car runs exclusively on electricity. An electric motor with a power of 3 kW and a nominal voltage of 48 V is powered by a battery with a capacity of 210 Ah. The battery is charged from a 220-volt network, and on one charge the electric car can travel up to 120 km. With a weight of 780 kg and a load capacity of up to 380 kg (in the case of a mini-pickup), the BYVIN electric car is capable of reaching a maximum speed of 60 km/h.

The cost of BYVIN electric car in Novosibirsk is 270 thousand rubles. According to Yuri Mergel, an electric car does not require registration with the traffic police or a driver’s license. At the moment, the new product is only available upon order from China within 1-4 weeks.

Information: According to the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs No. 1001, motor vehicles with an internal combustion engine displacement of more than 50 cubic meters are subject to registration. cm or a maximum electric motor power of more than 4 kW, as well as a maximum design speed of more than 50 km/h, intended for driving on public roads.

Rules for the operation of electric vehicles in Russia.

Many people, before purchasing an electric vehicle, are puzzled by the question of how to operate it, what permits are needed, and whether registration is required. All this is discussed in detail in our article.

Let's sort it out in order. Let's start with registration. Let's open the rules - 1 point of general provisions. Vehicles with a volume of more than 50 cubic cm, a maximum electric motor power of more than 4000 W and a design speed of more than 50 km/h are subject to registration.

Thus, no matter what kind of electric vehicle you purchased, if the motor power is up to 4 kW , you do not need to register! As for speed, the most widespread are low-speed electric vehicles - golf carts, electric bicycles, electric scooters. At high speeds, energy consumption increases significantly. But even if your vehicle is capable of accelerating over 50 km/h, then the likelihood that you will be caught doing this is practically zero...

What if the power is more than 4 kW? If the vehicle is two-wheeled, then most likely it already resembles a motorcycle, and there is no need to delude yourself - the presence of pedals does not exempt you from responsibility... Registration of such a two-wheeled vehicle must be carried out at the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, and accordingly, to drive on public roads you need a category “A” license. If a powerful motor of more than 4 kW is in a four-wheeled electric vehicle, then you need to contact GOSTEKHNADZOR for registration; this vehicle is already equivalent to ATVs and, accordingly, you need a tractor driver’s license to drive. There is one more unpleasant moment - you do not have the right to drive on public roads. Exceptions are possible if you managed to “agree” with the local traffic police department.

What documents are needed to register with the State Technical Supervision Authority? Passport + copy, purchase agreement + transfer and acceptance certificate, PSM, insurance, state duty, application in the established form. It is not necessary to present the vehicle. Well, to top it all off, the Internet is full of well-wishers who will do this for you for 5 thousand rubles. Exceptions are full-fledged, certified electric vehicles, which are registered as a regular car.

Now we move on to less powerful devices. Consider electric bicycles. Everyone naively thinks that an electric bicycle is the same bicycle only with a motor. In reality, this is still the case now - traffic police officers are still turning a blind eye to electric bikes, BUT...

Let's look from the point of view of legislation. We carefully read the traffic rules, the definition of a bicycle:

“ Bicycle ” is a vehicle, other than a wheelchair, which has at least two wheels and is generally propelled by the muscular energy of the occupants of the vehicle, in particular by means of pedals or handles, and may also have an electric motor of rated maximum power in continuous load mode not exceeding 0.25 kW, automatically switches off at speeds over 25 km/h.

And most electric bicycles and scooters that are currently sold and actively used have a power of more than 250 W... Thus, these vehicles fall under the category of scooters up to 50 cc. and you can drive them only with a category M license in your pocket. If you received your license a long time ago, when there was no category M yet, then you have an open category B, and this means that you can drive these vehicles. But you have the right to demand your license only if you are driving on public roads. If you are moving at low speed along the pedestrian sidewalk, observing all safety measures and avoiding pedestrians, then the traffic police officer will not be able to present or demand anything from you.

In practice, it is impossible to enforce the law, since there may be no inscriptions on the engine indicating its power, and the traffic police inspector will not be able to determine the engine power “by eye.” And also, according to the law, a cyclist should not have or present to a policeman a license for a bicycle with a motor. Differences in the law can cause confusion for both the bike owner and the police officer. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the traffic police are not very picky about cyclists. But this does not mean that you should neglect the Rules of the Road, and it is likely that in the near future the necessary amendments will still be made regarding bicycles with powerful motors. So registering your bike as a moped and getting a license for it is a purely personal matter, but everyone without exception is required to follow the rules in order to avoid accidents.

Well, in conclusion, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that concrete, dirt, forest roads, as well as roads in villages and summer cottages are also public roads, therefore, they must also comply with traffic regulations.

Electric vehicle registration

Electric vehicle registration procedure

Today, most vehicle owners are thinking about purchasing or converting their car to run on electric fuel. The reason for this is the significant financial savings, environmental friendliness and noiselessness of this installation. After conversion, you need to go through the electric vehicle registration procedure.

According to the law, electric vehicles with a power of less than 4 kW are not subject to registration. If more than 4 kW it is necessary to legalize your vehicle. To save your time and effort, below we will tell you step by step how to do it correctly.

First, you need to take and fill out a permission form for conversion to the traffic police. (If you make this certificate before the conversion, it will be free);

Then, with this permission, we go to the institute and fill out an application. It must be accompanied by a copy of the technical passport, as well as an abstract describing your converted car. The abstract must include photographs. These documents can be submitted by email. At the institute, specialists inspect and check the car;

After the commission checks and approves our application, we need to come to the institute and pay for this service. After 10 days we take away the “Scientific and Technical Expertise Conclusion”;

With the conclusion from the institute, we go to an automobile expert, pay for the service, and in a few hours we receive an automobile examination;

The last step is to submit all the collected documents to the traffic police, pay for the service, submit your converted car for examination and receive the long-awaited, but technical coupon.

We advise you not to delay this process, since registering an electric vehicle is a rather lengthy process. The entire registration procedure lasts about a month.

Russians will now have to register even electric cars with the traffic police

A few days ago, changes to the Russian government decree “On state registration of motor vehicles and other types of self-propelled equipment on the territory of the Russian Federation” came into force. In accordance with them, it is now necessary to register not only cars with a conventional gasoline engine, but also those with an all-electric power plant under the hood, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes.

This is the first time that Russian authorities have paid such attention to electric vehicles. Moreover, we are not talking about hybrid models, which are now becoming increasingly popular and which will no longer surprise our drivers. Hybrids, remember, run on gasoline or diesel engines and then switch to electric. Such vehicles are registered as vehicles with traditional internal combustion engines (ICE).

Now owners of all-electric cars will also have to come to the traffic police department. Previously, the owner, for example, of a Mercedes Sprinter imported from abroad with an electric motor accelerating up to 80 km/h, did not know what to do with it, because on the one hand, in all respects except the engine, it is a completely normal vehicle, but on the other hand, the other is that it is not provided for by law to register it. Is everything clear now? Such a car must be registered. So, if the engine power of an electric car is more than 4 kilowatts (5.4 hp), and it can reach a speed of more than 50 km/h, then this car must be registered with the traffic police in the same way as cars with traditional internal combustion engines. Moreover, the law on compulsory motor liability insurance also applies to owners of such vehicles.

It should be noted that electric cars are currently being produced in very small series. But due to rising fuel prices and the global fight for the environment, most automakers began to create such models. Apparently, in a few years there will be thousands of cars using only an electric motor. A whole program has already been developed in Moscow to convert passenger transport to electric traction. The new buses will refuel at electrical outlets at night and transport passengers during the day.

Changes to the Russian government resolution also affected the issue of issuing so-called “thieves” license plates. Let us remind you that now it will be very problematic to get them? Traffic police officers were officially prohibited from reserving certain series or combinations of symbols on vehicle license plates for legal entities and individuals. The issuance of state signs will take place exclusively in the order of increasing their digital values.

And the third innovation of the new document will come into force only on August 1 next year. From this date, a certificate-invoice will no longer be required for registration with the traffic police. True, this document is not always needed even now. For example, when drawing up a contract for the purchase and sale of a car with a legal entity, it is not required at all - an agreement and documents confirming that this legal entity can engage in such activities are sufficient.

But if we are talking about buying a car from an individual, then the parties need to come to a consignment store, where they will issue a certificate-invoice, on the basis of which the car will be registered. Starting from August 2009, you will no longer need to go to a thrift store, writes RG.