>>1033351Too powerful with speed up to 60km/h, involved in many traffic accidents, and some drive them on pedestrian roads which result in even greater danger. Although official rule say any ebike faster than 20km/h or heavier than 40kg are motor vehicle that require license, this rule is too strict and thus ignored by basically everyone. Thanks to that de facto no regulations, many of those ebikes currently in use in China are electric motorbikes repackaged with pedal, so some cities would simply choose to ban all of them.
Also the ban is not universal just like what happened to electric motorbike back in 2008-2013, some cities ban it while others welcome it, with some other cities flipping their policies from time to time. There are also situations where provincial government openly critize the ban enforced by some city government for not in line with national policy on promoting new energy.
