Maryland Changes Autocycle Law – Don't Panic!

[Thomas Bushaw]

According to a 5/5/2022 CleanTechnica article “Maryland Stops Treating 3-Wheeled Cars Like Motorcycles”. Maryland’s autocycle law (applicable to the Aptera, Polaris Slingshot, Archimoto FUV, and ElectraMeccanica among others, presumably) required that the vehicle have a steering wheel. The Archimoto FUV has a handlebar. Maryland changed the law to replace “wheel” with “mechanism.” This would have affected the Aptera only if a “yoke” is not considered a “steering wheel” (probably not the case). But now that ambiguity has been eliminated.

Anyway, Aptera is mentioned in the article a few times, which is a good thing.

[Len Nowak]

Did you attach the link? Since I an not sure of topic(s)

Is different than this article for “autocycles”?

https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/22/04/g26759685/arcimoto-vehicles-reclassified-as-autocycles-in-the-state-of-maryland#:~:text=The%20bill%2C%20HB%201391%2C%20the%20Clean%20Cars%20Act,an%20autocycle%20such%20as%20those%20built%20by%20Arcimoto.

[Thomas Bushaw]

Sorry, posted the item inadvertently before finishing it. Fixed now. Yes, both articles refer to the same change to Maryland’s law.

[kerbe2705]

One wonders if they’ll distinguish between the standard “roll cage”-bodied Arcimoto and the more motorcycle-esque “unbodied” Roadster version…

I wish the distinction between motorcycle and autocycle included “fully enclosed cabin” but, then, a fully-open 4-wheeled “sit-inside” vehicle is still an automobile…