Hello,

here is my experience of the first Super Soco TC's in Spain.

I orderd my first one in June, but the Spanish distributor Sumco was very difficult to reach (1 week for a email reply, phone always occupied). We agreed to 2890 € for a TC + sales tax for delivery in Canary Islands, but at the last moment Sumco retracted its offer and said they would only deliver to Sumco dealers, and not before 2019 in Canary Islands.

So I imported a TC from Hamburg, Germany, along with 2 additional batteries. There is a container shipment service Hamburg - Tenerife 3 times every 2 weeks (Mobiltrans). They charge 380 € per bike but then they also charge all sorts of export/import costs, at the end I paid about 900 € for shipping and paperwork but I did not have to pay the German sales tax (19%). The sales tax for electric vehicles in Canary islands is 3%.

Delivery time was 3 weeks and I had to drive the TC across the highest mountain of Spain, the El Teide in order to reach the port from where the ferry to my island La Palma leaves.

I still have a German number plate on the TC, and the Spanish bureaucracy is hilarious. First they insisted that I present them the German paperworks for cars ("Fahrzeugbrief"), but 50ccm vehicles in Germany only have COC and nothing else. I am still in the process to pass the tecnical examination in Spain at the ITV, but now there is hope that they might accept the COC document (EU homologation). The ITV software does not accept electric 2 wheel vehicles (ciclomotor electrico), the trick is to claim it is gasoline vehicle without a gasoline motor. Spain is still in Colonial Cristopher Columbus mode mentally, they live in their glorius past. A bureaucratic procedure which takes in modern EU countries 5 minutes will get you entertained at full throttle during 5 weeks here.

Meanwhile I found a Spanish dealer who would sell me a second TC directly, but without batteries which are not available in Spain so far. Last week I got the second TC, and we had to visit twice the capital (3 hours away) just to get our Spanish number plate. At the DGT (traffic circulation authority) they said that I do not have to pay tax for the TC, but I need to have a paper proof of this from the tax office (another day to get that paper). And I had to pay 1,20 € for circulation tax - getting this document from my municipality (Ayuntamiento) cost me another day. The TC has Spanish tax classification code 0300 which does not exist in the tax software of the DGT. The trick was to say that the TC is a 3 wheel electric vehicle so that the DGT accepted it. At the end I got a number plate for the 2nd TC, but virtually no insurance would accept the Super Soco TC. The biggest Spanish insurer, Mapfre, does not know Super Soco and would not give a quote. Verti knows Super Soco but says the vehicle "does not match the risk profile of their company". Allianz would insurance it for 250 €/year but only for legal minumum terms (daños a terceros básicos). I finally insured it for 155 € (legal minimum insurance) at Helvetica.