Electric bike management, where to go?

Electric bicycles are popular in large and medium cities because of their speed and convenience. However, due to the lack of effective management, the phenomenon of excessive speeding, and some drivers' actions such as retrograde, robbing the road, brought a lot of security risks. As for how to manage the issue, the reporter visited many places and found that various management departments had different opinions: the traffic control department stated that the regulatory power could not keep up, the vehicle management agency believed that it was necessary to strengthen source supervision, and the bicycle industry called for raising the speed limit standard... Electric bicycle management, Where do you go from here?

More than 200 million electric bicycles in the country are exceeding standard speed. There is no difference on the license. According to the "General Technical Conditions for Electric Bicycles" (GB17761) promulgated in 1999, the maximum speed of electric bicycles should be no more than 20 km/h, the quality of whole vehicles. (weight) not more than 40 kg. Reporters in Beijing, Xi'an, Wuhan and other places found that excessive speeding of electric bicycles is common. At the junction of Shilipu, Chaoyang District, Beijing, Ms. Xu, an environmental sanitation worker who returned from work on an electric vehicle, told reporters: “It's generally about 30 to 40 kilometers per hour. The current car is basically at this speed.”

According to data from the China Bicycle Association, the number of electric bikes in the country has exceeded 200 million, and the vast majority of these are super cars. “Many companies have illegally sneaked away, improved, and increased their power, and some electric vehicles have even reached 80 kilometers per hour,” said Dong Haifeng, deputy section chief of the order management section of the Xi'an Public Security Bureau Traffic Police Detachment Order Department. This brings about a lot of road traffic safety. Hidden danger.

For factory-qualified products, modification is also easy. An owner of an electric vehicle sales point in Haidian District, Beijing, told reporters: “As long as the speed limit valve is removed, it will do.”

This reporter learned that in order to regulate electric bicycles, some places have implemented the electric bicycle registration system. Du Yong, head of the vehicle management department of the Traffic Police Detachment of the Public Security Bureau of Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau, told reporters that citizens are required to bring their ID cards, vehicle certifications, and car purchase invoices to the vehicle management office and check with the vehicle management authority whether they are in compliance with the “electric bicycle products”. List of Market Inspection Catalogues, "Registration of Electric Vehicles Compliant with Catalogues, Registration of License Plates, and Issuance of Driving Licenses, Costs 6 Yuan."

However, some owners disapprove of licensing. Because the treatment is the same as whether it is on the road or not, "Nobody has any license at all." An electric car owner in Xi’an told the reporter, “When I buy a car, the boss has already hung up the imitation small blue card.”

The Beijing Traffic Management Bureau also stipulates that from January 4, 2006, all electric bicycles that meet the national standards can be registered. However, an assistant policeman at the crossroads in Beijing’s Wangfujing told reporters that many electric bicycles have exceeded the standard and cannot be branded. The traffic control department also did not impose a request for licensing. "There are no licenses that can't be controlled."

Speeding over the speed of electric bicycles is not a new problem. Is it difficult to control? Do not belong to me? Or nobody?

The concern raised by over-standard electric bicycles is not new. In fact, in March 2011, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and the General Administration of Quality Supervision and Inspection and Quarantine jointly issued the “Circular on Strengthening the Management of Electric Bicycles”, requiring all localities to regulate the management of electric bicycles in terms of production, sales, and use, and combine them with local Actually, the use of "excessive" electric bicycles will be eliminated within a time limit. However, the intensity of implementation varies across regions and the effect is not obvious.

When interviewed by the traffic management departments in various places, it was believed that there was indeed more than enough excess capacity for the vehicles that had exceeded the standards, and the police were insufficient. Exceeding the speed of electric vehicles, small body, easy to escape. Once strict law enforcement, it is also easy to increase conflicts with individuals. In the opinion of the traffic control department, curbing the flow of illegal products to the society is the key to solving the problem.

People in charge of the quality supervision department stated that electric vehicles are limited in speed when they leave the factory. Problems such as "speeding up the conversions" appearing in the sales process should be investigated and dealt with by the industrial and commercial departments.

The industry and commerce departments believe that this should be resolved by the quality supervision department. “Why can electric vehicle transmissions be modified casually? Is this not a quality failure?” The industrial and commercial department also believes that related illegal activities such as “sets of cards” also need to be finalized by the traffic control department. .

The reality is that "even if some places strictly manage the production of electric bicycles, there will always be other places that produce electric vehicles that exceed the standard," said Liu Jianjun, a professor of traffic management engineering at the Chinese People's Public Security University.

Public security and market demand are inextricably linked. Experts believe that the key to government management lies in strict law enforcement. The core of the problem of overriding electric vehicles is the contradiction between public safety, government management, and market demand. Yu Lingyun, professor of Law School of Tsinghua University, said that from the individual In terms of demand, ordinary people like electric vehicles that are quick and easy. Manufacturers have thus produced large-scale electric vehicles on a large scale. However, many people do not have enough awareness of their own safety and cause safety problems.

For this problem, the Bicycle Industry Association advocates raising the speed limit standard and introducing a new national standard as soon as possible. “The current national standard for electric bicycles was revised in 1999. It neither noted the reality that product performance has improved, nor did it take care of people’s access needs and industrial development needs,” said Guo Jinzhi, secretary general of the Beijing Bicycle Electric Vehicle Industry Association.

Zheng Xiaoling of the China Bicycle Association Publicity and Research Department disclosed that the China Bicycle Association had completed the “General Technical Conditions for Electric Bicycles” (draft draft of the revised draft) by the end of 2012 and was seeking opinions from various departments. Among them, the speed limit standard is set to 26 km/h.

It is understood that the Ministry of Public Security considers this speed to be too fast. In some places, the traffic control department also believes that in the premise that electric bicycles are still non-motorized, maintaining low-speed standards can only take into account the situation of pedestrians and human bicycles.

There are also viewpoints that put into the management of motor vehicles or juxtaposition of the third category outside of motor vehicles and non-motor vehicles. The "Technical Conditions for Safe Operation of Motor Vehicles" promulgated on May 11, 2012 once included the electric vehicles with speeds over 20 kilometers per hour and weighing over 40 kilograms into the motor vehicle management category, causing strong opposition from the public, manufacturers and industry associations. On the 16th, the National Standards Commission issued a notice on its official website that the revision of the national standard is not limited to the "Technical Conditions for the Safe Operation of Motor Vehicles." "It is tantamount to suspending this standard," said Ma Zhongchao, chairman of the China Bicycle Association.

In the interview, the speed limit was appropriately released under the premise of safety, and it was approved by many experts. However, since the 20-kilometer limit cannot be raised to 26 kilometers, can it be restrained? Experts stressed that the most important thing is that the functional departments must strictly enforce the law.

Liu Jianjun believes that legislation should be enacted as soon as possible to clarify the legal responsibilities and obligations from production, sales, and use to various stages of use, and intensify efforts in strict management to perform their duties.

Yu Lingyun believes that the protection of safety requires the introduction of science and technology: For example, the traffic control department has introduced technology for taking pictures and speeding up the speeding of electric bicycles, and manufacturers have to install unsupervised or adjustable speed limiters on electric bicycles. In addition, all electric bicycles are required to be registered, and compulsory third-party liability insurance systems for electric bicycles exceeding the standard are established. All over-standard electric bike users must wear helmets, and so on.