Electric Scooters

electric scooters are legal to own in the UK. However, there are lots of restrictions surrounding where they can be used.

It's currently illegal to ride a privately owned e-scooter on a public road, pavement, cycle lane or bridleway. Privately owned e-scooters can only be ridden on private land with the permission on the landowner.

The UK government are running trials of rental operations through 2020-2022, in selected major cities. These pilot programs could potentially pave the way to a version of the UK in which e-scooters are generally legal for use on roads and cycle lanes, carefully regulated to promote safety, and socially accepted as a sustainable means of transport.

Private electric scooters are now set to be legalised for use on public roads across the uk under upcoming transport bill introduced at queen speech may. this means that over course of year ahead government will work through details regulations enable legislation e-scooters.