Travel Scoot™ – A lighter electric mobility scooter

Medical staff were able to fix him up again, but walking and standing became increasingly difficult with age. In 2003, while living in the US, Hartmut warmed to the idea of acquiring a mobility scooter.

However, none of the countless mobility scooters on the market met the basic requirement of being easy to load and unload in and out of his homebuilt airplane. He faced similar problems when dealing with portability in cars and public transport.

Without exception, all mobility scooters were too heavy and bulky. Frequently, people with disabilities already have difficulty lifting heavy objects; or, oftentimes the wife has to handle that task for her disabled husband, for example. Several mobility scooters that could be taken apart where introduced onto the market, but these weren’t any lighter. They were still too cumbersome and complicated for people with disabilities. An entirely new approach had to be taken.

A few years prior, light-weight aluminum scooters for children as well as adults became popular world-wide: This gave Hartmut Huber his inspiration. After about a year of development he introduced the World’s lightest and most compact electric mobility scooter and named it TravelScoot ™, and applied for a patent.

This scooter his much lighter and has more load capacity than the other scooters.

Adapted from: http://travelscoot.com/inventor.html

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