The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) It is studying the possibility of creating a new category of driving license in Spain, called B1 and aimed at young people from 16 years of age, and is in favor of its implementation. This has been confirmed to Europa Press by sources from the department headed by Pere Navarro, which values a proposal made by the consulting firm Pons Seguridad Vial and the Business Association for the Development and Promotion of Electric Mobility (Aedive).
This license would allow young people to drive quadricycles whose unladen mass is less than or equal to 400 or 550 kilograms, in the case of vehicles intended for the transport of goods, (not including the mass of batteries for electric vehicles), and with an engine whose maximum power is less than or equal to 15 kilowatts (kW).
The proposal of both organizations aims to incorporate European standards regarding access to mobility into Spanish regulations, where the B1 permit has already been adopted and successfully tested by some of the neighboring countries such as Portugal, Italy, France and United Kingdom.
According to estimates from both entities, based on data from the National Statistics Institute (INE), this new driving license would give the possibility of a first access to electric mobility to about one million people each year. In his opinion, one of the main advantages of the implementation of the B1 in the short term would be the increase in safety when traveling, since this permit would allow “a rational and staggered access to driving cars, and a more alternative mobility. safe to traditional means of transport “, according to Pons Seguridad Vial.
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Another advantage of the B1 permit is that the L7 quadricycle shares safety features with category M vehicles, the conventional vehicle for transporting people. Likewise, these vehicles present a fundamental element for safety that category L6 quadricycles do not have, such as the provision of rollover protection structures (ROPS).
Pons and Aedive highlight that, for the period 2020-2024, Regulation (EU) 2019/631 confirms the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions targets of the Union vehicle fleet for cars in 95 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer.
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