Why Mobility Scooters Foldable Design Improves Travel Convenience

To users who use a mobility scooter to travel daily, it is equally important to have the capability of transporting the scooter in a car, by a subway or by air as much as the performance of the scooter on the road. A non-folding, rigid scooter can be challenging to move and can only travel to a limited number of places with the help of a large vehicle and/or a wheelchair lift. Foldable design makes it all different. We produce automatic folding mobility scooters at Ningbo Baichen Medical Devices Co., Ltd. which have been designed to be portable and yet have a high performance. Four factors explaining why a foldable design dramatically enhances convenience of travel are listed below.

Effortless Loading into Any Vehicle

The greatest advantage of a foldable mobility scooter is that it can be easily placed in a car. The conventional scooters are cumbersome (30-50 kg) and large and in most cases two persons are needed to load the scooter or they are loaded with the help of powered lift. Our mobility scooter is an automatic folding scooter, which is much lighter in weight and can be folded by pressing a button. After being folded, it can fit into a suitcase that is very large and can fit in most trunks of a car, back seat or even the passenger footwell. Users who use ride shares (Uber, Lyft), taxis, can have a folded scooter loaded by the driver without special equipment. This implies that you will be able to take a ride with anybody, anywhere without prior arrangements.

Seamless Multi-Modal Travel

Commuting tends to involve a combination of various forms: walking, driving, bus, train and eventually scooter riding. A non-folding scooter would leave you to ride all the way or abandon the scooter. A collapsible scooter allows a genuine multi-modal transportation. You may drive to a transit station, fold your scooter, board a bus or train (with the built-in wheels as luggage) and then unfold it at your destination to ride the last kilometer. The folded size of our automatic folding scooter is suitable for most carry on areas of public transport. To commuters, it means that you could live in a part of the city not in the center, and you can get to a park and ride, and then use the train, and have your scooter to get to the last mile, and you have never needed a caregiver to move heavy equipment.

Storage in Small Living Spaces

The mobility scooters are used by many people in apartments, RVs or small houses where space is valuable. A rigid scooter is placed in a hall or living room, which makes everyday life problematic. A scooter is folded up or placed sideways or upright in a closet, under the bed or behind a door. When folded, our automatic folding scooter would rest on its own wheels, and can be rolled into a corner. Other users keep it in the trunk of the car all the time and only get it when required. This allows you to have an open, uncluttered house and never leave the house to go get your scooter in a garage or shed again.

Air Travel and Long-Distance Trips

Flying is particularly difficult among users of mobility devices. Airlines should accept as checked baggage foldable mobility scooters, as long as the lithium battery complies with IATA standards (less than 300 watt hours) and is carried onboard. We have an automatic folding mobility scooter that has airline compliant quick release batteries. Meanwhile you can leave the folded frame at the counter, carry the battery on-board and have your scooter at baggage claim. A folded scooter can fit in a regular cabin closet to passengers of a cruise ship. To RV travelers, it can be stored in a basement compartment.This long distance and air travel will make a family vacation or weekend trip a logistical nightmare into an independent experience. This air and long distance travel capability turns a weekend trip or family vacation from a logistical nightmare into a smooth, independent experience.

Summary

Foldable nature of mobility scooters enhances the convenience of traveling as they can be loaded easily in a car, transported easily for multi-modal travel, occupy less space in the home and can be easily transported by airlines. Our automatic folding mobility scooter has a lightweight frame, folding with the touch of a button, and airline compliant batteries at Ningbo Baichen Medical Devices Co., Ltd. which is supported by our 20,000 m2 manufacturing facility and 4 assembly lines. Call us to feel the liberty of having a scooter that can go wherever you go.