"New cars, even small ones, have become very expensive, and one reason for that is the mandatory safety equipment that has to be legally sold in the European Union. But the EU wants to change that for city cars, creating a new class of vehicles that will have less safety gear on them, specifically to bring down their acquisition price."
"So while they will be less safe than a regular vehicle that has to meet all the safety criteria, they will be considerably safer than quadricycles such as the Citroen Ami and others coming in from China, which don't have to go through the battery of safety (and crash) tests that a normal car has to undergo. These new E cars will be crash tested and offer similar structural rigidity to larger vehicles, but they will have fewer active safety aids."
European Union plans a new 'E car' category for affordable urban vehicles with size and power limits similar to Japan's kei cars, to be defined within a couple of years. The objective is to lower acquisition costs and help local manufacturers compete with Chinese carmakers. Mandatory safety equipment will be reduced for qualifying city cars to cut prices. The category will include strict size and power restrictions and likely tax exemptions to encourage adoption. E cars will still undergo crash testing and provide structural rigidity, but will omit several active safety aids to achieve 10–20% lower prices.
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