Mobility scooter

Scooter is the common name for small, multi-lane, open, electrically driven light vehicles that can carry only the driver and are mostly used by people with walking difficulties. The first electric cars end of the 19th century were also sometimes referred to as a scooter.

These scooters allow people with walking difficulties swiftly to cover longer distances and also to use wheelchair access. Luggage can be transported on the base plate between the legs and often in the basket on the handlebars. Some scooters also offer the possibility to attach a trailer, so that even larger objects and crates can be transported with the scooter. The seat is carried out at many electric vehicles for the purpose of entry lighter than lockable swivel seat. Some scooters can be folded for transport.

Unlike a power wheelchair, it is either geared to a walking disability, the difference with this is the direct steering. Consequently, the driver of the scooter must both arms can use and manage the entry and exit to the vehicle independently. A four-wheeled scooter can be described as electric-powered quad with hatch between the seat and handlebars, a three-wheeled electric car than electric-powered, single-seat trike with hatch between the seat and handlebars.

Legal Notices for electric cars

The scooter or electric scooter in the described introductory text that falls within the § 4 § 76 according FeV ( wheelchairs ). Such special car wheelchairs are to be in accordance with § 4 / (2 ) of the Regulation on the approval of persons in road traffic exempted from the requirement for the particular driver, holder of the license. This applies to motorized lifts that are intended for use for frail or disabled persons, with one or max. two seats, an unladen weight of not more than 300 kg, and a conditional maximum design speed of not more than 10, have 15 or 25 km / h. The submitters TÜV or DEKRA reports and granted approval of the approval authority expressly certify that it is in the present each vehicle is not a car, but a motorized wheelchairs. The statutory regulation does not define who qualifies as a physically frail or disabled! A compulsory insurance for these vehicles shall apply from a speed of 6 km / h In this case, must be attached to the vehicle a so-called " Moped code".