Zinger - world's lightest [production] electric wheelchair?

[jansevr]

found this article to be pretty interesting. nice concept - hopefully it hits production and they sell at a fair price. there definitely isn't really a good lightweight electric wheelchair in production (as far as i know of). only the big and bulk ones that are heavy as hell.

http://www.gizmag.com/zinger-lightest-folding-electric-wheelchair/32982/

 

[Matt Gruber]

http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=57921&p=876252#p876252
maybe i'm dreaming, but could a duplicate of my -9 be used? Same weight and cheap to build!

 

[mettleramiel]

Although this may be the lightest powerchair out there, there are plenty of folding lightweight powerchairs already on the market. The problem with all of them, including this one, is that they are for light use only. They are really only good as a second chair or for someone who is not in a chair all the time. Basicly, if you want to have a day at the beach and grandma can't walk for more than a 20 minutes, you would throw this in the back of your car.

They are also slow, have short range, very low weight capacity, minimum seating adjustments and options and get stuck on anything that isn't a sidewalk.

 

[spinningmagnets]

I upgraded the dead SLA batteries on a friends toy 24V ATV for his kid. I was very impressed by it, and I can see making one of these into a mobility scooter. I couldn't find a pic of one with a kid next to it for scale, but they will fit through a doorway in a house. Pull off the bodywork, add a seat from a riding-mower, and move the batteries to under the seat...$400-ish for the size I'm talking about when new, $100 when the SLAs are old.