Are electric skateboards legal in Italy?

Each row is the statute's own content, reduced to plain wording where it is long and quoted directly where the exact words matter. The section in the last column is a link to the text.

• Legge 27 dicembre 2019, n. 160, art. 1, commi 75–75-vicies quinquies — Bilancio di previsione dello Stato per l'anno finanziario 2020 (monopattini elettrici). Official source, read 2026-09-27.
  Normattiva, text in force. Italian text; translations are ours.
• D.M. 4 giugno 2019, artt. 2 e 7 — Sperimentazione della circolazione su strada di dispositivi per la micromobilità elettrica (GU n. 162 del 12-07-2019). Official source, read 2026-09-27.
  Gazzetta Ufficiale, original text; articles read one by one. Annexes 1 and 2 not read. Italian text; translations are ours.
• D.L. 30 dicembre 2019, n. 162, art. 33-bis, and its amendment history — Monopattini elettrici (proroga della sperimentazione). Official source, read 2026-09-27.
  Amendment history: https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/vediAggiornamentiAllArticolo?art.dataPubblicazioneGazzetta=2019-12-31%2000:00:00.0&art.codiceRedazionale=19G00171&art.flagTipoArticolo=0&art.idArticolo=33&art.idSottoArticolo=2&art.idSottoArticolo1=10&art.versione=3. Interior Ministry, 'Le regole per i monopattini elettrici' (16 March 2020): https://www.interno.gov.it/it/notizie/regole-i-monopattini-elettrici. Italian text; translations are ours.
• D.Lgs. 30 aprile 1992, n. 285, art. 190, and its amendment history — Nuovo codice della strada — Comportamento dei pedoni. Official source, read 2026-09-27.
  Normattiva, text in force since 16 June 2022; amendment history: https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/vediAggiornamentiAllArticolo?art.dataPubblicazioneGazzetta=1992-05-18%2000:00:00.0&art.codiceRedazionale=092G0306&art.flagTipoArticolo=0&art.idArticolo=190&art.idSottoArticolo=1&art.idSottoArticolo1=10&art.versione=16. Italian text; translations are ours.
• Legge 25 novembre 2024, n. 177, artt. 14 e 35 — Interventi in materia di sicurezza stradale e delega al Governo per la revisione del codice della strada. Official source, read 2026-09-27.
  Normattiva, text in force from 14 December 2024; art. 35 read at the same URL with ~art35. Italian text; translations are ours.

Every source on this page is the text as published by the legislature or the state agency itself. Open them.

What one costs today. The cheapest complete electric skateboard in stock at a shop we read is 38" Hurricane Electric Longboard Electronic Skateboard, at US$240 (the cheapest one, tracked daily). 34 boards under $500 · 94 under $1,000 — every price checked at the shop, not copied from an ad. The full picture, from entry boards to the top of the range: how much an electric skateboard costs.

Deciding between a board and a single wheel? Onewheel or electric skateboard. A word in the texts above you do not know? The glossary.

The same four questions, across every jurisdiction whose primary sources we have read. Neighbouring jurisdictions link to their own page and citations; every other one is a click away on the full list.

The spread is the point. These are neighbouring jurisdictions regulating the same object, and they do not agree on what it is, how fast it may go, who may ride it, or whether it may be ridden at all. A rider who crosses a state line is, quite often, subject to a different legal category rather than a stricter version of the same one — which is why a single national answer to this question does not exist and why anyone offering you one has stopped reading the law.

It also explains why so many rows say the device is unaddressed. Most vehicle codes were written before this machine existed, and a legislature that has not revisited them has not thereby permitted anything — it has left the question to a general classification and to your city.

No text we read for Italy names a board with a single wheel. The reading above is for electric skateboards; whether a Onewheel falls in the same class, another one or none is a question the statutes here do not answer, and neither do we. 11 jurisdictions do name it — Are Onewheels legal?

• It is not legal advice, and it never says you may ride. It says what the statute says, and links it.
• It does not cover municipal law. Cities regulate sidewalks, parks, paths and often these devices by name. Those rules sit on top of everything above.
• It does not cover private property, insurance, or what happens after an accident.
• It may be out of date. Every source carries the day we read it. A statute amended since then will not have updated itself here.

Across the border: France · Switzerland · Austria. Every other jurisdiction: the full list.

Are electric skateboards legal in Italy?

No law we can find defines an electric skateboard. What applies instead is a general vehicle classification and, in practice, your municipality. No Italian text we read names the electric skateboard. The statutory regime for light electric vehicles (Law 160/2019, art. 1, paras. 75 ff., as rewritten by Law 177/2024 with effect from 14 December 2024) covers only electric kick scooters (“monopattini a propulsione prevalentemente elettrica”). Other electric micromobility devices had a separate route: a 2019 ministerial decree allowed them only in municipal trials, admitting “esclusivamente” (exclusively) hoverboards, Segways, kick scooters and monowheels. Skateboards were not among them. No text we read states when the trials ended. By our arithmetic from the texts, the end date was 27 July 2024, and we found no later extension. Law 177/2024 (art. 14(2)) still fines anyone who rides an electric micromobility device other than a kick scooter that does not conform to the ministerial decree, or outside the trial area, €200 to €800. The Highway Code separately bans riding boards on the carriageway (art. 190(8)); that provision does not distinguish powered from unpowered boards, and Law 177/2024 did not amend it.

Is a Onewheel legal in Italy?

No statute we read for Italy names a board with a single wheel, so the law there does not answer directly. For electric skateboards, the status we found is: no statute names the device. Only 11 of the 99 jurisdictions we read name a one-wheel board: Utah, Quebec, Queensland, Tasmania, Seattle, South Korea, Belgium, British Columbia, New York, Victoria, the Netherlands.

Do I need a helmet in Italy?

No rule naming this device addresses helmets in the sources we have read for Italy. Your municipality may have one.

How fast am I allowed to go in Italy?

No speed limit specific to this device appears in the sources we have read for Italy.

Does this cover city rules?

No. This page reads state, provincial or national law only. Municipal codes frequently add rules — on sidewalks, parks and paths especially — and where the state has written nothing, the city has written everything.

How do I check this myself?

Open the links in the sources below. Every row in the table above names the section it comes from, and every source shows the date we read it. That is the whole point of the page: you should not have to take our word for it.