Petro/Gas Powered Wheelchairs

[Cal]

Not for me, but looks like they might be of some use (fun!) :

http://www.motivechair.com/

Cal

[Martin O Refurbisher]

Wow! Fun and different, but probably not for me - too busy with F55 variants. Concept is very intereswting though, thanks for sharing.

Best,

Martin

[ex-Gooserider]

I agree - looks like a neat concept, but I'm somewhat nervous about the idea of a gasoline engine setup, and I'd suspect that a lot of businesses and so forth would have problems with you coming inside with it, even if the engine wasn't running. At the same time, I'd not want to be pushing the weight of the entire unit around when not using the engine...

Possible options that might be interesting would be a propane / multifuel setup - which probably wouldn't be that hard. (Note that propane engines seem to be OK for indoor use in many places, i.e. for forklifts and such)

However to me what would be the biggest seller would be if there was a "quick detach" ability that would allow the user to quickly and easily drop the motor and most of the associated bits outside a store or such (presumably locking it to a bike rack or telephone pole, etc.) and wheel around without the weight, and then go back and hook onto the motor. I've seen a few different electric setups that did this, and seems like an ideal solution....

ex-Gooserider