Let’s explain to you how to register your electric scooter in the DGTone of the procedures that all owners of these vehicles they must perform in addition to having mandatory civil liability insurance.
As you already know, this new regulation finally begins to put a little control on electric scooters in Spain. Specifically, the standard affects all vehicles with one or more wheels that are moved by electric motors and that reach speeds between 6 km/h and 25 km/h.
When you register your scooter with the process that we are going to tell you, you will be given a PDF with which you can acquire an identification tag that you are going to have to place on your vehicle, a license plate for the electric scooter. In addition, you will also have to take out mandatory insurance.
Scooter registration is a procedure what has a cost of 8.67 eurosbut then the 20 or 40 it costs to issue the license plate. If you do not do so, you may be fined like the owner of any other unregistered vehicle.
How to register your electric scooter
To register your electric scooter or VMP in the DGTyou can do it in person or through the DGT website. The URL of the website you have to go to is headquarters.dgt.gob.es/es/vehiculos/matriculaciones-de-vehiculos/inscripcion-vmp/index.html.
Now you will have to identify yourself on the DGT website, for which you will need to use the Cl@ve system. You can use the Permanent Key or mobile or digital certificatelike the FNMT certificate. You can also do it by phone or through the app. myDGT.
Once you have logged in, your basic personal data will be automatically loaded, such as ID, name, address, etc. You will have to check that everything is correct and continue. Then, you will go to a screen where you will have to enter vehicle detailssuch as serial number, certificate number (you can watch it here), brand, model and type of use.
Once you have completed this information, you will be taken to a page where you will have to Enter the data to pay the fees. When you do so, the registration will be confirmed and a PDF will be sent to your email, which will serve as proof of the operation.
Now, with this document you can go create the registration for your scooter, and you will also have to take out the mandatory insurance. Just remember that when you stop using the scooter, just like with a car or a motorcycle, you will have to go to an authorized scrapyard or clean point to proceed with its destruction and have it definitively removed from the DGT, with the proof that they will give you at this center.
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