E-scooters in Székesfehérvár: Lime, where the city bars rental scooters or holds them to 8 km/h, and Hungary’s rules

Which e-scooter apps work in Székesfehérvár?

Lime rents e-scooters (elektromos roller) in Székesfehérvár through its app. At 04:49 on Tuesday 3 November 2026, Hungarian time, the Székesfehérvár map showed about 370 Lime scooters as last counted.

The city’s zones below are written for every e-scooter and e-bike rental service, whichever company runs it, and any such company needs a city permit to put its scooters on public land. Lime shows its prices and its minimum age for riders in the app.

Lime also rents scooters in Szeged and Budapest, each with rules of its own. New to shared e-scooters? See how to rent an e-scooter.

Where can’t you ride a rental e-scooter in Székesfehérvár?

Székesfehérvár’s rules sit in the city assembly’s decree on the use of public space, 7/2011. (III. 31.), as decree 27/2021. (VI. 29.) amended it from 1 July 2021. On top of the KRESZ, Hungary’s highway code, its 31. § (5) sends the devices of e-scooter and bike rental services to Annex 4, which names the places where getting around on them is forbidden ("tilos közlekedni") and those where they are held to 8 km/h.

No riding here. Annex 4 rules out travel on rental e-scooters and e-bikes in 14 places, so the ban falls on whoever is riding one.

• the pedestrian zones of the historic centre (Történelmi Belváros): Arany János utca, Szent II. János Pál Pápa tér, Géza nagyfejedelem tér, Városház tér, Liszt Ferenc utca, Fő utca, Hősök tere and Kossuth Lajos utca;
• the Sóstó nature reserve (Sóstó természetvédelmi terület);
• the grounds of the Halesz, Palotavárosi and Túrózsáki leisure parks (szabadidőpark);
• the promenade around the boating lake (Csónakázó tó), the Koronás park and the Rózsaliget rose garden;
• Zichy liget and Petőfi park;
• playgrounds and cemeteries;
• the grounds of the Rácbánya;
• Széna tér;
• the grounds of the Bregyóköz sports centre (Bregyóközi Sportcentrum);
• the area in front of the railway station.

The section that brings in the list, 31. § (5), is about rental devices. The annex’s own headings speak only of electric bikes and scooters ("elektromos kerékpárok, rollerek"), and the decree says nothing about scooters people own.

Where must you slow to 8 km/h?

Annex 4’s second list names six zones where a rental e-scooter or e-bike may go no faster than 8 km/h:

• the streets of the historic centre outside its pedestrian zone;
• the park of the Aranybulla memorial (Aranybulla emlékhely);
• Szabadságharcos utca where it runs beside the Malom csatorna, the mill channel;
• the car parks on the site of the heating plant (Fűtőerőmű);
• the car parks beside Rákóczi út and József Attila utca;
• the car parks around the Sóstó Aréna.

Annex 4 doesn’t trace the edge of the historic centre. Elsewhere in the decree, for the fees it charges for public space, the historic Belváros is the area bounded by Budai út, Várkörút, Mátyás király körút and Piac tér (12. § (2)).

What the city asks of the rental company

A company that wants rental e-scooters or bikes on public land must hold a public-space use permit (közterület-használati engedély), a duty the 2021 amendment wrote into 4. § (2) p). Annex 3 prices it at HUF 720 a device a month, whichever of the city’s three fee zones the scooter is in.

The mayor oversees public space with the notary (jegyző), the public-space inspectors (Közterület-felügyelet), the transport authority and the police (34. § (1)). Objects left on public land without a permit, or with the fee unpaid, can be ordered off and removed at the permit holder’s cost, and the fee is still owed for the time without one (34. § (4), 35. § (1)). For rental scooters, these duties fall on the company, not on riders.

End your ride only where the Lime app lets you.

Hungary’s rules: alcohol, faster scooters and the courts

In a release dated 1 July 2026, the Somogy County police set out some of the rules that apply to e-scooter riders:

• No alcohol. E-scooter riders are no exception to the alcohol ban, and a drunk rider can face criminal proceedings, depending on the level.
• Over 25 km/h is a moped. A scooter built to go faster than 25 km/h counts as a moped (segédmotoros kerékpár), so its rider needs a licence, insurance and a helmet.
• Eyes and ears on the road. Listening to music or handling a phone makes it harder to spot a sudden hazard and react in time.
• Protective gear. A rider has none of a car’s built-in protection, so the police urge wearing proper gear on every ride; a brightly coloured helmet also helps others see you.

The KRESZ itself still didn’t deal with e-scooters at all, Telex wrote on 16 June 2026. Case law has filled the gap. According to the Chief Prosecutor’s Office (Legfőbb Ügyészség), the Kúria, Hungary’s supreme court, sided with prosecutors: an e-scooter counts as a motor-driven vehicle (gépi meghajtású jármű), and driving drunk normally brings a driving ban, even on a vehicle that needs no licence. For alcohol, Telex concluded, an e-scooter is treated like a car, not a bicycle: zero tolerance.

Telex’s example: a reader’s son rode a rented scooter in Budapest in September 2024 with at least 2.20 per mille of alcohol in his blood and fell almost at a police officer’s feet. On 28 January 2026 the Pest Central District Court fined him HUF 1.8 million and banned him from driving for a year and five months; prosecutors appealed for a longer ban.

Will Hungary’s e-scooter rules change?

In June 2026 transport minister Dávid Vitézy said e-scooters would be taken out of the KRESZ rewrite, which had dragged on for years, and settled sooner. He told Telex a public consultation would come first and that people would get time to prepare before any new rules took effect. Telex outlined the draft rules then under discussion:

• a low-power motor scooter (kis teljesítményű motoros roller), one that can’t go faster than 25 km/h on the flat under its own power, would follow the rules for cyclists, with differences: still no alcohol, riders over 12 only, and a helmet compulsory;
• a high-power motor scooter (nagy teljesítményű motoros roller), one with a motor rated over 1,000 W or able to go faster than 25 km/h, would follow the rules for mopeds: no pavements, riders over 14 only, and a motorcycle helmet.

These were proposals, not law, when Telex reported them; Székesfehérvár’s zones above are in force.

Did you know?

• Fountains are off limits too. Since 1 January 2024 the same section that points to the scooter zones has barred stepping into the basin of a public fountain or taking water from it (31. § (6)).
• Most of the scooter damage an insurer studied came from rented ones. In an Allianz Hungária study cited by Telex in June 2026, 89% of the damage claims examined involved rented e-scooters, in one case in five the person responsible was never found, and failing to give way was the commonest mistake.