Can you pass the e-bike and e-scooter questions in the new car driver’s licence test?
Adults who want to ride an e-bike or e-scooter in Queensland have to hold a car driver’s licence, or obtain a medical exemption, under laws passed this year.
And soon, people who want a learner’s permit in Queensland will have to answer e-bike and e-scooter rule questions correctly to get their L plates.
We’ve obtained a 10-question quiz from Transport and Main Roads with sample questions similar to those that will appear on the PrepL test.
The new module goes live on November 16.
Mandatory driver’s licence rules began on August 31, but people who are aged 16 years or older, and cannot hold a driver licence due to a medical condition or disability, must fill out an exemption form and have it signed by a health professional by November 30.
An assurance scheme, which requires e-bike owners to get a compliance sticker proving their bike complies with the international standard, EN15194, began on November 2.
This applies to any bikes that do not already have a sticker, and will cost a maximum of $70 per bike.
Bikes must be originally manufactured to provide assistance up to 25km/h while pedalling, with a maximum continous motor power of 250 watts.
However, there are still only nine authorised verifiers, all of them Trek stores, and only one outside south-east Queensland, in Rockhampton.
Transport and Main Roads is working with Bicycle Industries Australia to increase the number of inspection locations across the state.
The government’s assurance scheme website said people living in rural and remote areas without reasonable access to an authorised verifier would be able to access alternative arrangements, and TMR was working on options, including the potential for “a temporary, conditional permit”.
“TMR is committed to providing an alternative permit option for people who cannot reasonably access an authorised verifier,” a departmental spokesman told this masthead.
The verification process, currently only available to be booked at Trek stores, involves a permanent label attached to an e-bike or e-trike confirming it meets EN15194 or is designed for someone with a disability or medical condition, which remains with the bike even if it was sold or ridden by someone else.
However, the temporary permit would be issued to an individual for up to five years, and carried physically or digitally when riding.
More information about this option will be available at the start of 2027.
Legal e-bikes may continue to be used until the end of February 2027 during a transition period.
However, police have begun seizing and destroying bikes they allege are illegal.
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