Well thats it for all of the kits sold in Australia then - there are no pedalec kits readily available, it looks like they are also trying to ban any internal combustion engines, and you have to be pedalling to get assistance as well (so there goes the cyclone style kits, Sachs rotary kits, 98% of hub motors - the retailers are going to be P1553D.)
It couldn't be any worse. So what happens to the thousands of (now non-compliant) kits sold? Are they sent to landfill as well? The environmental cost of this legislation is staggering.
May as well get a motorcycle - buying a compliant (with PABC compliance plate - with the details recorded - ostensibly for theft reduction - but allowing registration to occur - making the RTA MORE INCOME). A Sachs 150cc motorcycle is about $2500 onroad, with rego costs of 150-200 per year - a compliant ebike, heavily restricted and decently made (LiFePo4 batteries, decent groupset, good frame etc + added compliance plate costs (look at the compliance issues with LV jap imports for an example of added costs) - would be $1500-2000 or so...
Why the heck would you bother? RTA killed off the Moped, they will now do so to a usable PAB. Environmental lipservice as usual.
