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Fine by me, just say them to obtain a driver's license and insurance for a scooter, since basicaly it is what they would drive. Or drop the need of the license for the scooters and light bike.
The point is that a ebike with a throttles is basically a scooter (or bike) and then it is a different things, with differnt rules.
But is there really a fundamental difference? If I build a throttle on my bicycle, it still has the same breaks, the same lights, the same driver, the same max speed. The only difference is that I do not have to pedal, everything else is exactly the same. There are countries where it is totally legal to do this and others where you get quite harsh fines. There is no reason for it to be a different thing.
I would point out that an ebike with a throttle are more like this one (sorry, only find in Italian) than a normal bicycle from a road code point of view.
Is this what we call "Mofa" in Germany? What are the rules for it?
The same used for a scooter since it was a scooter. But it is no longer produced :-(
As this one is capable of reaching 45 km/h it's a "Moped", not a "Mofa".
The problem is infrastructure.
We have pavement for trucks/cars at >30km/h... We have pavement for pedestrians <5km/h
What we lack is the dedicated pavement for the stuff in between.
Regulating these light-motorized devices to be banned on the other two has been the real issue of acceptance and adoption of the tech.