A moped car is a four-wheeled vehicle that is registered as an EU moped, formally called moped class 1.
This means, among other things, that the top speed may not exceed 45 km/h, and that the weight of the vehicle in drivable condition may not exceed 425 kilos.
But what about the parking rules for mopeds compared to regular mopeds? We’ll figure that out here.
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Parking rules for EU mopeds (class 1)
According to SKR the same rules apply to an EU moped as to a passenger car, which means that it may not be parked on footpaths or cycle paths. However, local traffic regulations may provide exceptions to this, which must be signaled with a suitable additional board.
A Class 2 moped, on the other hand, complies with the same parking rules as a bicycle, and may therefore be parked on footpaths and cycle paths.
An EU moped may be parked in a motorcycle parking lot – Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT
An EU moped may also be parked in parking spaces with the additional Motorcycle plate.
Sweden’s motorcyclists also points out that motorcycles and EU mopeds do not need to be parked in the direction of travel in parking spaces indicated with road markings, referring to an update of the traffic regulation from 2017.
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For mopeds, however, it was unclear for a long time exactly which parking rules apply.
According to Sweden’s motorcyclists, this was due to a ruling from the Court of Appeal in Skåne, where the owner of a moped car escaped a fine after parking in a motorcycle parking lot.
As the law was formulated at the time, it appeared that the additional Motorcycle sign signals the parking of a “two-wheeled motorcycle or class I moped without a sidecar”.
The Court of Appeal concluded that the description in the current case was unclear, as it does not state that only class 1 mopeds without a sidecar with a certain number of wheels may be parked.
Since 2017, however, no such ambiguities remain, but now only EU mopeds that are two-wheeled and do not have a sidecar may be parked in MC parking lots.
Moped cars must therefore comply with exactly the same parking rules as a regular passenger car.
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