Which vehicles can be driven without a driver's licence?
Verified 08 July 2022 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)
You do not need a driver's licence to drive the following vehicles:
- Electric car with power of 1 kW: titleContent maximum
- Vehicle participating in training, sports, competition in a place approved and closed to public traffic. The organisation must be organised by a sports federation and all participants must have a sports licence.
- Agricultural or forestry vehicle or apparatus attached to an agricultural or forestry holding, a ETA: titleContent or Cuma: titleContent. You must be at least 16 years old and use the vehicle only during the agricultural or forestry activity.
- If you born on or before 31 December 1987, moped and light quadricycle.
However, you must ensure vehicle (moped, cart, agricultural tractor or self-propelled vehicle,...)
FYI
if you born in or after 1988, you must have road safety certificate (category AM) to be able to drive a moped or a light motor quadricycle.
- Route Code: Articles L221-1A to L221-10Proficiency Check, Issuance and Categories
- Route Code: items R211-1 to R211-2Road safety certificates and certificates
- Route Code: items R221-4 to R221-8Issuance and categories of driving licences
- Route Code: items R221-14 to R221-21Exemptions from the requirement to hold a driving licence
- Order of 8 November 2012 fixing the conditions for obtaining the road safety certificate corresponding to category AM of the driving licence
FAQ
- Which licence for which category of vehicles?
- At what age can you drive a scooter or a motorcycle?
- Can I drive a 3-wheeled scooter or a 125 motorcycle with a B licence?
- Which vehicles can be driven with the B licence?
- Mini motorcycle, quad: what rules for reporting and driving?
- carte grise: do you have to register a car without a licence?
- Do you need insurance to drive a car without a licence?
- What documents do you need to ride a scooter of less than 50 cm3?
- How do I insure a tractor or self-propelled farm vehicle?
- Motor insurance (vehicle)Service-Public.fr
- carte grise (Certificate of Registration)Service-Public.fr
- SportService-Public.fr
- BSR corresponding to category AM of driving licenceService-Public.fr