{"id":266011,"date":"2023-10-13T14:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T14:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/its-official-e-bikes-are-actually-bikes-not-motor-vehicles-according-to-new-eu-rules\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T14:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T14:35:02","slug":"its-official-e-bikes-are-actually-bikes-not-motor-vehicles-according-to-new-eu-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/its-official-e-bikes-are-actually-bikes-not-motor-vehicles-according-to-new-eu-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official: E-bikes are actually bikes, not \u2018motor vehicles,\u2019 according to new EU rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/10\/its-official-e-bikes-are-actually-bikes-not-motor-vehicles-according-to-new-eu-rules.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe EU Court of Justice yesterday announced a landmark ruling stating that pedal-assist e-bikes are actually bikes, not motorbikes or (gasp) motor vehicles, which means e-cyclists aren\u2019t obligated to be insured in the same way as motorists and can be compensated as a cyclist, not a \u201cmotor vehicle driver,\u201d in the case of an accident. <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2023\/10\/13\/its-official-e-bikes-are-actually-bikes-not-motor-vehicles-according-to-new-eu-rules\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/its-official-e-bikes-are-actually-bikes-not-motor-vehicles-according-to-new-eu-rules\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":266012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}