If you are in Amsterdam or Rotterdam, you can’t miss it. In numerous places, you will see a small black vehicle, and the Birò. In terms of size, seems to be the thing to do, the Canta, it’s well-known red-gehandicaptenvoertuig. More recently, its use is restricted, but there are glimmers of hope.

The Birò is a model of the Italian start-up Estrima. The Start-up may not be the right name for it since the vehicle is already in for the 2009 sale. A year later, the Birò in the Netherlands, when it was still at a sale price of 8.500€.

Today, the cost of a Birò, soon to be 15,000 euros, which is the bias on the trolley is reinforced, so it would be mostly a toy for the well-to-do city dwellers have.

But even if you have, literally, three high-back resident, you may have a Birò is interesting. The vehicle is equipped, depending on the version, a removable battery, so you can get this at home, you can recharge it. The range is smaller, and 55 km compared to 100 km for the Birò is with a fixed battery.

However, not everyone can just get behind the wheel. You must be at least eighteen years of age and possess a valid driver’s license. For the board members at least 24 years of age and older need a moped licence.

The electric Birò is dependent on the performance of up to 100 miles away. (Photo: Birò).

in the Meantime about a hundred of copies in our country,

, According to Peter Vermeer, director of the Birò, the Netherlands, there are now a hundred copies of it in our country. The fact that the majority of it has been purchased. The majority of vehicles, approximately 70 percent of the people, driving in Amsterdam, the netherlands. Rotterdam, 20 per cent of the total, while the rest are in Eindhoven, you can drive.

“The Birò, because of its compact size, the less space in the street, means less traffic jams and congestion, and the convenience of four Birò in a space suit, there is more room for, for example, public parks and gardens. In addition, the Birò is completely uitstootvrij, allowing him to contribute to a cleaner and quieter living environment,” says Vermeer.

The Birò is a good example of a so-called stadsvlo. (Photo: Birò).

Now kentekenplicht for the Birò

you can Now have the advantages of a very compact and fully-electric vehicles in the city are unknown, but the school may have a completely different reason for the rise of the Birò. The card was central to the gehandicaptenvoertuigen considered to have serious consequences.

the meaning of The word, that is the thing in any car park to be proud of. And, although many of the board of directors, with Birò neatly between the bikes and scooters are left behind, there are just as many that are in the Birò course in the middle of the pavement and parked.

A year ago, the court of first instance that the Birò, as brommobiel is considered to be just like the other cars, is now available for an additional fee, in a parking bay should be. The Birò is a kentekenplicht. The people who actually have a disability, you may be granted exemption.

“We’re in favour of clear rules and regulations, and the city in the future, to live, to love, it is a transition plate is used. This is the parking is better regulated,” said Vermeer.

Here we need to point out the kentekenplaatje sit down. (Photo: Birò)
Research cost run

in november, the first copy of a registration number will be provided. To ensure that there is a Birò file through the canals of Amsterdam-South and winds its way to the yellow plates, the city of Amsterdam in recent weeks, with transitional arrangements for the work, confirms a spokesperson from the responsible alderman, Sharon Dijksma.

This is not the kentekenplicht be maintained in order for the Birò-owners, who are still in the process of their application, are protected.

“We are not opposed to the Birò. It is a clean and silent electric vehicle, helping to ensure clean air in the city. As these vehicles instead of cars with internal combustion engine, is to come in the room. Therefore, at this time, stadsbrede cost for such electric vehicles to be examined,” let Dijksma, through its spokesman, to know.

Vermeer, and confirms that it is the church speaking. “Our aim and ambition to meet to the needs of diverse communities, the aim is to, among other things, the promotion of sustainable mobility, and the low of town centres and to reduce the number of car parking spaces in the centre of the city. The Birò, however, continue to be encouraging, there is more space and attention to so-called ” light electric vehicles. For this purpose, we are using a variety of governments in a conversation.”