I don’t understand how it’s not a requirement to pass these safety regulations before manufacture. How can a company fully produce and sell a dangerous product as big and complicated as a car before someone regulatory sees it and cuts it off at the head?
This alone has left me with zero faith in pretty much anything I buy anymore. It’s like it’s a surprise when something works as advertised anymore.
I cannot speak for EU regulatory bodies. But Canada gave it a provisional pass pending testing because the US gave it a full pass
Fooled you once, shame on America…
… Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.
Well i guess the EU can’t stop something being manufactured in the US.
No, but it should have required a passing test before going on sale in the EU
It never was for sale in the EU, it was always imported via loopholes where the EU assumed that the US would put roadworthy stuff on its roads.
Not so much loopholes as existing mechanisms. There are ways to import vehicles and modify them to be road safe / legal, called homologation which involves submitting a lot of paperwork, taxes, inspections and certifications to an EU government and having a car be certified. And also more restrictive special permits so a vehicle can be shown at events or whatever. The cybertruck however is simply too far over the line that no amount of modification would make it road legal.
I heard stories about people not even doing that, only abusing grace periods where you can drive a vehicle from abroad on our roads while you do the paperwork.
I’ve heard of people trying to get Cybertrucks road legal. Some guy in Czech republic almost managed it until a public outcry had his certification revoked. Another guy in UK had his car impounded. So if people are stupid enough to try driving their extremely recognizable illegal vehicle then they risk losing their it entirely.
“failing to comply” makes it sound like they ever had any intention to do so.
Reader, they did not.
And ‘banned’ makes it sound like it was at some point allowed here.
It just never passed regulations. Not a shock.
It was not banned. It just never got a permission in the first place because it does not comply to rules and regulations.
Move fast and break the law.
Canada here. Please, Europe, make it a condition for any future trade deals between us that we have to ban the Cybertruck here as well. I’ve already seen too many of them on the roads here for comfort…
Cybertrucks were never “banned” per se, just defacto illegal to drive on the road because they do not comply with vehicle safety standards. People have tried to import them, making token efforts to make them road legal based on requirements for one-off importations but they haven’t succeeded.
There are videos that explain what they would need to be legal and basically it amounts to being completely redesigned. They don’t have the correct light clusters front or back, they’re too heavy to be privately driven and they are so unsafe for pedestrians that the entire outward appearance / frame would have to be changed.
It’s not actually banned it’s just it doesn’t meet the safety requirements so it’s not allowed.
It’s like saying you’re banned from bars when you’re 12, you’re not really banned you’re just not allowed in, it’s not really the same thing.
