Road legal recumbent e trike

[chr4]

Hi
I was hoping to buy a second hand trike and convert it or get a Performer electric trike if they start making one next year as implied by some videos on youtube. But yesterday I stumbled upon this thread http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/cheap-kit-to-make-a-big-hill-feel-like-a-small-hill.32862/#post-463540
where some comments suggest that conversions might not be road legal unless officially approved. It made me think twice. What about type approval carried out by the manufacturer? If done in one EU country (Brexit aside) does it apply in the rest of EU?

 

[Woosh]

to convert a trike to e-trike, you only need to comply with the current road vehicule regulations. If you fit a road legal kit, you will be fine. If you fit a more powerful kit, you will need SVA.

NealH posted about it here:

http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/cheap-kit-to-make-a-big-hill-feel-like-a-small-hill.32862/#post-463683

 

[anotherkiwi]

250W nominative motor, 48v max battery, cutoff at 25 km/h and no "throttle". Don't forget your EN15194 sticker!

 

[chr4]

Thank you for your replies.

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[John_S]

In the link that Nealh provided us with, it didn't mention anything about kits one way or the other. Perhaps we can assume that if there was a need for a kit to be tested after being put together in order to be legal, something would have been stated about it on that page. But I couldn't say for sure.

 

[anotherkiwi]

In EN15194 there is the acceptance that kits exist, for example the cut off speed has a tolerance of + or - 5% rather than 10% for factory built bikes. If you stick to the rules your trike won't be sent off to be tested unless you run down one of the queen's corgis... or something like that.

How goes your build John?