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Sri Lanka's Motor Traffic Act defines motor vehicles broadly enough to include e-scooters with no power floor, requiring full registration, a driving licence, and insurance.
Sweden treats an e-scooter as a bicycle only below 20 km/h and 250 watts; exceed either limit and it legally becomes an unregistered moped barred from public roads and paths.
Taiwan has required e-scooters to be registered, plated, and helmeted since a grace period ended in November 2024, with a minimum riding age of 14 for its micro electric class.
Tanzania's Road Traffic Act has no e-scooter category, so broad vehicle definitions place e-scooters under the same registration and licensing rules as a motorcycle.
Thailand has no vehicle category that a throttle-based e-scooter can register under, making public road riding an offense even though rentals remain widely tolerated.
Tunisia has no dedicated e-scooter law and, per local reporting, no financial penalty framework at all for riders, leaving even informal safety norms unenforceable.
Turkey caps e-scooters at 25 km/h and bars operators from renting to riders under 15, but its regulation sets no statutory helmet mandate despite common assumptions otherwise.
The UAE has no single federal e-scooter law: Dubai runs a permit-zone system, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah restrict riding to designated tracks, and Ajman bans street riding outright.
Uganda's Traffic and Road Safety Act has no e-scooter category, but its broad vehicle definitions technically sweep scooters into the same rules that apply to motorcycles.
Ukraine's Rules of the Road have no dedicated e-scooter category, folding devices into the existing moped definition instead, which caps electric motors at 4kW.
Uruguay coordinates e-scooter rules through a 2020 circular each department adopts, setting a 25 km/h cap and age 16 minimum, though Montevideo admits near-zero enforcement.
Vietnam's 2025 traffic law licenses electric mopeds but does not recognize stand-up e-scooters as vehicles at all. See the rules, fines, and the drafting gap.