Code 78 - This is why you don't see more electric training cars

The trade journal RijschoolPro investigated the willingness of driving school owners to use an electric car or hybrid for driving lessons. A minority would like to, but the majority (more than 50 percent) still stick to the traditional petrol or diesel car. A number of respondents (7 percent of the total) indicated that they already take lessons in an electric car.

With code 78 on your driver's license you can't drive with a manual gearbox

Many instructors are against this. And because of code 78; the endorsement that a student receives on the driver's license when he or she takes lessons and takes the exam in a vehicle with an automatic transmission. If you have code 78 on your pink card, you are not allowed to drive a vehicle with a manual gearbox, only an automatic one. After all, you have never learned how to connect and switch.

Switch to electric training cars if code 78 is no longer there

An electric car is always automatic. Most don't even have a gearbox (the Porsche Taycan and Audi e-Tron GT have a two-speed automatic). For the time being, code 78 on your driver's license is still too great a restriction, according to the driving instructors. Only when the government decides to stop using that code, the majority of them are willing to switch to a training car with a plug, RijschoolPro writes.