10-24-2015, 02:37 PM
So FAR, no state or region requires periodic in-the-field emissions testing.
But new motorcycles do need to be EPA approved and pass emissions tests.
A number of Chinese motorcycles and scooters were found to have faked the tests - sending the EPA "ringers" specially set up to comply. It was about 2012 that the word came out, IIRC. I lived in Wisconsin at the time, and had a Chinese touring scooter, a Burgman clone.
The DMV spent 45 minutes going down the list to make sure a Xingyue XY-300t wasn't on it. Models that WERE marked, were not to be registered or allowed to be renewed. That little escapade had reduced those models to little more than junk.
But new motorcycles do need to be EPA approved and pass emissions tests.
A number of Chinese motorcycles and scooters were found to have faked the tests - sending the EPA "ringers" specially set up to comply. It was about 2012 that the word came out, IIRC. I lived in Wisconsin at the time, and had a Chinese touring scooter, a Burgman clone.
The DMV spent 45 minutes going down the list to make sure a Xingyue XY-300t wasn't on it. Models that WERE marked, were not to be registered or allowed to be renewed. That little escapade had reduced those models to little more than junk.