About
What this is, and what it refuses to be
A free public registry of Chinese-built powersports vehicles certified for sale in the United States, assembled from federal records that are public but effectively unusable in the form they are published.
The problem
A person buys a 150cc scooter with an unfamiliar badge on the side. Four years later the belt goes, and the company that imported it has closed. There is no parts catalogue, no dealer, and no way to find out what the machine actually is. Searching the badge returns nothing but expired listings.
That machine was almost certainly built in a Chinese factory that also supplied several other American importers — some of whom are still trading and still selling parts. The information needed to make that connection exists, in public, in the EPA's certification database. It is simply not in a form anyone can use.
What this site does about it
It reconciles 628 freehand factory spellings in the federal record into 325 real factories, joins them to 341 American certificate holders across 4,858 certificates, and publishes the result as pages you can search and Google can index. Then it hands you a ruler, because a shared factory is a lead and not a guarantee.
What it will not do
- Sell you parts. There is no shop, no cart and no stock. That is deliberate: the moment this site has inventory to move, its answers stop being trustworthy.
- Tell you a part fits. It will tell you which machines are worth measuring against yours. Why that distinction matters
- Review anything. No ratings, no “best of” lists, no claims of having tested a product.
- Ask you to register. No account, no login, no email wall on any page.
Independence
This registry is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any vehicle manufacturer, importer, retailer or the EPA. Brand names appear only to identify the vehicles described. The underlying data is a work of the United States government and is reproduced with its source, retrieval date and file hash on the sources page.
Accuracy, and how to challenge it
Some of what is here is a judgement call. Deciding that two differently-spelled companies are one factory is an editorial decision, and every one of those decisions is published with its reasoning so it can be argued with. Where the data is ambiguous the site says so rather than smoothing it over.
If something here is wrong, tell us. Corrections that hold up are made and credited.