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Low-speed Vehicle
In the United States and Canada, low-speed vehicle (LSV) regulations allow relaxed design and registration laws for four-wheel vehicles that have a maximum capable speed of about . Several other countries have similar regulations. Canada Under Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations, a low-speed vehicle is defined as a vehicle, other than an all-terrain vehicle, a truck or a vehicle imported temporarily for special purposes, that is powered by an electric motor, produces no emissions, is designed to travel on 4 wheels and has an attainable speed in 1.6 km of more than but not more than on a paved level surface. Low-speed vehicles are currently street legal in British Columbia, Quebec, and Ontario. SC Carts was the first Canadian manufacturer to begin producing street legal low-speed vehicles. France Quadricycles (the EU vehicle classification covering this type of vehicle) can be driven without a car licence, and are known as ''voitures sans permis'' (VSP), literally “cars with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slow Moving Vehicle
A slow moving vehicle (or SMV) is a vehicle or caravan of vehicles operated on a street or highway at speeds slower than that of other motorized traffic. The term "slow moving vehicle" is generally applied to equipment and vehicles such as farm equipment (including tractors), construction equipment, trucks towing trailers, or any such vehicles which cannot operate above a specified speed. It does not include vehicles normally known to unlikely be operated at that speed or incapable of reaching that speed, such as bicycles, mopeds and disabled vehicles being towed. SMV emblem North America In the United States and Canada an individual vehicle, a vehicle which is being towed, or caravans of vehicles, which are unable to reach a maximum speed of 40 kilometres an hour (25 miles per hour) are required by law to display a special reflective emblem sign at the rear of the vehicle or vehicles, or on the rear vehicle in the caravan. The sign is only allowed to be placed where it is visibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medium Speed Vehicle
Medium-speed vehicle (MSV) is a vehicle registration category in some states of the United States where applicable vehicles are allowed to travel on roads at speeds up to . The safety regulations for MSVs are more stringent than those for Low-speed vehicle In the United States and Canada, low-speed vehicle (LSV) regulations allow relaxed design and registration laws for four-wheel vehicles that have a maximum capable speed of about . Several other countries have similar regulations. Canada Under ...s. Montana's SB0185 was the first law to define this class of vehicle.Moore, Bill"The Medium Speed Electric Vehicle Conundrum" EVWorld.com, May 25, 2007, accessed December 15, 2018 Minnesota has laws that allow for vehicles that travel up to , Tennessee's laws allow for vehicles that travel up to , and Colorado, Kentucky, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Washington all have laws allowing MSVs that travel up to . Maryland's law considers the speed capability of the particular vehi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microcar
Microcar is a term often used for the smallest size of cars, with three or four wheels and often an engine smaller than . Specific types of microcars include bubble cars, cycle cars, invacar, quadricycles and voiturettes. Microcars are often covered by separate regulations to normal cars, having relaxed requirements for registration and licensing. Predecessors Voiturette is a term used by some small cars and tricycles manufactured from 1895 to 1910. Cyclecars are a type of small, lightweight and inexpensive car manufactured mainly between 1910 and the late 1920s. Europe 1940-1970: Microcars The first cars to be described as microcars (earlier equivalents were called voiturettes or cyclecars) were built in the United Kingdom and Germany following World War II, and remained popular until the 1960s. They were originally called minicars, but later became known as microcars. France also produced large numbers of similar tiny vehicles called voiturettes, but they were rar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voiture Sans Permis
Voiture (French, 'car') may refer to: * Vincent Voiture (1597–1648) French poet * 333508 Voiture, an asteroid See also * Car (other) * Passenger car (other) * Voiturette (other) * Eurofima coach, or ''Voiture Standard Européenne'', a passenger rail car * Voiture État, passenger rail car * Voiture État à 2 étages, passenger rail car * Voiture de banlieue à 2 niveaux The VB2N (', "two-deck suburban car") is a double-deck passenger car used on Transilien suburban rail services in the Île-de-France region of France. The cars are unpowered and designed to be paired with an electric locomotive. The coaches, ..., passenger rail car * Bugatti ''La Voiture Noire'', a prototype show car concept automobile {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vehicle Law
A vehicle (from la, vehiculum) is a machine that transports people or cargo. Vehicles include wagons, bicycles, motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, mobility scooters for disabled people), railed vehicles (trains, trams), watercraft (ships, boats, underwater vehicles), amphibious vehicles (screw-propelled vehicles, hovercraft), aircraft (airplanes, helicopters, aerostats) and spacecraft.Halsey, William D. (Editorial Director): ''MacMillan Contemporary Dictionary'', page 1106. MacMillan Publishing, 1979. Land vehicles are classified broadly by what is used to apply steering and drive forces against the ground: wheeled, tracked, railed or skied. ISO 3833-1977 is the standard, also internationally used in legislation, for road vehicles types, terms and definitions. History * The oldest boats found by archaeological excavation are logboats, with the oldest logboat found, the Pesse canoe found in a bog in the Netherlands, being carbon dated to 8040 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Low-speed Vehicles
In the United States and Canada, low-speed vehicle (LSV) regulations allow relaxed design and registration laws for four-wheel vehicles that have a maximum capable speed of about . Several other countries have similar regulations. Canada Under Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations, a low-speed vehicle is defined as a vehicle, other than an all-terrain vehicle, a truck or a vehicle imported temporarily for special purposes, that is powered by an electric motor, produces no emissions, is designed to travel on 4 wheels and has an attainable speed in 1.6 km of more than but not more than on a paved level surface. Low-speed vehicles are currently street legal in British Columbia, Quebec, and Ontario. SC Carts was the first Canadian manufacturer to begin producing street legal low-speed vehicles. France Quadricycles (the EU vehicle classification covering this type of vehicle) can be driven without a car licence, and are known as ''voitures sans permis'' (VSP), literally “cars with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
