While rental scooters are legal on UK roads, privately owned ones like the Nought One remain restricted to private land only.
In this episode, Jack meets with Ollie from Nought, a British e-scooter brand that’s not just making scooters, they’re actively lobbying the government to change outdated legislation. We discuss what safe scooter legalisation should look like, the essential safety features every scooter should have, and why micro-mobility is the perfect solution for short urban journeys.
0:00 – Breaking the Law on a Scooter
1:23 – The Legal Limbo of Private E-Scooters
2:35 – Lobbying the Government for Change
3:34 – Gambling on Legalisation
4:20 – Tour of the Naught One: Essential Safety Features
7:08 – The Micro Mobility Roadmap
8:17 – Enforcing Rider Behaviour
10:00 – The Perception Problem
11:20 – Are UK Cities Ready for Micro Mobility?
12:22 – Final Thoughts: Why We’re Missing Out
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31 Comments
My trip to Poland last year – got an e-bike (EDIT: actually I meant e-scooter) to move between places in Warsaw. There are designated places were you can use escooter on road and pavements. These are called bicycle lanes.
I feel UK legislation is still quite behind in that matter.
They hate stuff that cannot be taxed with regulations
I'm in the US, but I had one in college. It was technically illegal because it was too fast. It was a death trap, and I broke my arm on it, but it was fun and it was the only way I could get to class on time. With proper regulations, they're great. I do prefer ebikes in principle because they're so much more stable, but escooters have their place.
e scooters need larger wheels especially in Hampshire where most roads have lethal DEEP potholes!
no horn?
Hello Everyone. Question. If the E-Scooters are illegal in the UK because classified as a moper or something (as it is motor driven)… What about the delivery robots on the pavement? Battery powered, same as a E-scooter. Driven by an electric motor, same as a E-Scooter. Using a pavement. The delivery robots driven by AI technology. So are we reached the age when the robots are smarter than people or the robots has more right then a person who want to drive a E-Scooter to work??
It doesnt make sense that you can ride bikes on the road but not scooters….
Makes no sense..
You could buy a folding ebike to take up to your flat.
I think all these electric scooters are very dangerous on the roads -it is because they are highly manoeuvrable and motorists cannot react quickly enough to avoid them. They can be ridden by people who have no road sense or training and that makes them doubly dangerous! What the government are thinking of is beyond me. Probably it is something to do with their crackpot ‘net -zero’ idea. Bonkers!
Yeah go over a pothole and break your neck…make all escooters size/power legal let the public be free in this time of high cost of living. These 15mph escooters are crap slow and more dangerous to users
More powerful escooters are built with big wheels more better suspension better lights/brakes for a reason and its called safety,safety,safety…wake up Britain stop putting chains on the public
Yes, but you can only ride them on private land, so feck all use, we'll done once again the British government, NOT……Electric Bikes that can't have a throttle, we really are governed by Kunts…
When will it be legalised properly?
So they shouldn’t be on the pavements, and shouldn’t be on the roads with cars. How will this work in 95% of the uks towns and villages?
I don't think it is dumb at all that these things are illegal. They are very dangerous. Wheels too small for our pothole-ridden streets, just to cite one issue. Get an eclectically assisted bicycle, safer in several ways, plus you can get some excercise!
I use a escooter like i use an ebike. I take the safest route for everyone at that given time. If that means the path then its the path, if it means the road then its the road or if its the bike lane then its that. And dont be apllying to need insurence, a bike is bigger, heavier, and can do more damage, so there shouldnt be a difference in laws between ebike and escooter. Infact some ebike laws are outdated and they need adjustment, its 25mph in many places which can help in heavy traffic. The peddle assist and no throttle, so its ok to send full power to my wheel while im turning a corner and pedal i little bit? But its not ok to be able to control the amount of power using a throttle? Makes no sence. What about people that want to go further but there body is failing them? The no throttle is just stupid and makes it so that pedal assist is dangerous. Thats why there is a throttle on my ebike, i pedal to help get up to speed then let the bike take over. It also helps me focus on the road more. The laws need updating big time.
Bro stop trying to get reg plates on the scooters, stop kissing there ass to get your products acsepted. There shouldnt be any difference in ebike and escooter laws !!!
They need to follow all other country's and just let people be green UK is the worst
Escooter law needs rushing, we all want it, NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
Stability? Need 2 Tyres front and back. Simple
Nobody is considering us that live in rural area surrounded by big hills. We need good scooters too but some of them are just not powerful enough. I agree with speed limit, sticking to your lane, wearing correct gear but rural area need batteries with more mileage and greater watts. Please don’t forget about us lot. It’s a shame the few ruin it for everyone 😢
They are only illegal because our sleazy corrupt government can't make tax income from them.
They just need to make them legal FFS, give them a serial number that can be held on a national database and ensure the riders are insured and MUST wear a helmet, it will be so easy to spot the illegals as they would not be wearing helmets.
Fk the laws I scooter about illegal or not
You guys are well out of date whilst you put forwards a little children's scooter the reat of us are riding proper off road 45kmh speed electric scooters
A heavier rider on a 15mph scooter going up hill will have a maximum speed of 4 to 8mph on flat maybe 12 mph
Would totally buy one if they were legal.
But then all this law stuff would put me off.
I want to ride an e scooter, not have to pay extra for insurance and registration plates, certain battery or speed limits and all other sorts of things, why can’t we just ride the scooter, that’s it.
After all it’s not a car, it’s an e scooter.
County Durham police allow them, no action is ever taken, be it adult or child or even 3 kids on one of them, they absolutely allow it.. Maybe other soft forces in the UK do similar?
I am 61 and my wife is 54 yrs old.
We both have e-scooters and we use them everyday where we live in Baku,Azerbaijan. Baku is far busier than London due to its population density and the driving standard is far lower than the UK, but we manage journeys typically of 3-5 miles without too many problems.
If Azerbaijan can legislate for them so can the UK, but its lack of political will.
We keep hearing about net zero, ULEZ etc , but the government simply do not want to let people have a simple and cheap form of transport.
I've got an iscooter 5s
3:54 and love it ,though scared to use it due to the law. Full disk brakes Head light brake light , horn .why can the government not follow the rest of the world .
If they introduce a number plate system then a top speed shouldn't come into effect as you can speed in a car, also why do cyclists with e-bikes not need these credentials? Absolute mockery of our system in the uk. Cyclists should be registered aswell IMO