Learn about EC Whole Vehicle Type Approval
The Minibus Lite™ undergoes more extensive safety testing than any other lightweight school minibus, making it arguably the safest option available. It has achieved European Whole Vehicle Type Approval, the highest level of testing a vehicle can undergo. In contrast, minibuses with an IVA certificate—a lower level of Type Approval—do not undergo the same rigorous testing. If you’re considering a similar product, be sure to ask whether it meets the same high safety standards as the Minibus Lite™
What is European Whole Vehicle Type Approval?
European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval (ECWVTA) is a European approval scheme. Put simply, it’s a mechanism for ensuring that vehicles meet relevant environmental and safety standards. It allows a vehicle of a certain type to be approved for use across all member states in the EU without the need for testing in each country. To achieve full ECWVTA requires extensive, rigorous and expensive testing to gain approval.
IVA stands for Individual Vehicle Approval and is a UK approval scheme for vehicles and trailers imported, assembled or manufactured in very small numbers or, as individual vehicles e.g. amateur built cars, bespoke trailers etc. It is a means of checking that vehicles broadly meet the technical requirements laid out in European legislation, ensuring that they have been designed and constructed to modern safety and environmental standards. Compared to ECWVTA and NSSTA, the IVA scheme is the least onerous certification route in terms of compliance and is less costly.
Our Minibus Lite™ is the best tested minibus out there for schools. Read into our extensive testing procedures which made the Minibus Lite™ the safe minibus it is today, and read into our built in safety features.
Read into the rules and regulations input by the law for driving a minibus with different licences.
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