ElectricMobility.com

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Rascal Scooters, Mobility Scooters, Powerchairs, Motorized Wheelchair, Wheelchair, Electric Wheelchair

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Electric Mobility is a privately owned corporation with headquarters in Sewell, NJ . The firm manufactures and distributes electric scooters and power wheelchairs for the mobility challenged. In addition to their Sewell, NJ headquarters, the company has operations in the United Kingdom and Canada . It has over 500 employees and over 300 independent sales representatives.

Electric Mobility was founded in 1974 by Francis Flowers, Sr. to produce and market PedalPower® electric motors for bicycles. Francis Flowers Sr. and his son Michael, now company CEO, developed the specialized electric motors in response to the gas crisis. They believed that gas shortages would encourage people to use the bikes for transportation. The PedalPower motors allowed cyclists to go further. If they became tired, they could switch from pedaling under their own power to using the motor. When the energy crisis abated, however, demand for the product lagged. At this time the Flowers researched their customers and discovered the product was meeting the needs of a previously undiscovered market. Electric bikes were being used by older and mobility impaired people to get around their neighborhoods.

As a result, the company started to concentrate on products for the mobility impaired. In 1981 they introduced the Cycle Chair, a battery powered tricycle, which provided additional stability and was an instant success. For the most part Electric Mobility found that customers were not bothering to pedal their Cycle Chairs but were using the motors exclusively. In addition, further research revealed a need for mobility assistance indoors as well as outdoors. Thus, they began development of their landmark product, the Rascal® Scooter. This scooter was designed to use electric power only and to be compact enough to use indoors and robust enough for the outdoors.