Difference between electric climbing wheelchair and traditional wheelchair

Difference 1: Security

Most of the common electric wheelchairs on the market now have only one controller, two motors and four wheels. Although they are electric, they can drive on flat ground, which is convenient for the elderly to travel, but they can't climb stairs. They can't do anything when they encounter stairs or need to go upstairs. Many elderly people have inflexible legs and feet and can't go up and down stairs by themselves, Even if you can go up and down the stairs, you can't move dozens of kilograms of electric wheelchairs up the stairs.

For the electric climbing wheelchair, it can not only drive on flat ground, but also equipped with crawler for climbing stairs, which can switch between the two functions of walking on flat ground and climbing stairs. When it needs to walk on flat ground, it can walk like an electric car after retracting the crawler. When it encounters stairs, it can put down the crawler and climb stairs like a small tank.

Although it seems very simple, the consideration of safety can not be ignored. The elderly generally have weak control ability. The steep steps and narrow space encountered by climbing stairs are huge security threats to the elderly. To make products that are very safe to use, it is not only as simple as adding a crawler on the basis of electric wheelchair, but also requires careful design, Carefully consider the actual situation of all kinds of steps and various use environments, as well as the troubles and obstacles that different elderly people may encounter in the process of operation. But also need to be easy to operate, in the operation without safety risks, often need to go through several years of design, development and testing to produce a final mature and reliable electric climbing wheelchair.

In recent years, it's not uncommon for the elderly to slide up and down stairs and fall. It also shows that the elderly have high demand for electric climbing wheelchair and safety standards! Ordinary electric wheelchair design does not need to consider these issues, just need to consider the speed and braking basic safety issues, it is much simpler.

Difference 2: low yield

The industry chain of ordinary electric wheelchairs or electric vehicles is relatively mature, especially ordinary electric vehicles. The annual production of ordinary electric wheelchairs or electric vehicles in China is tens of millions, plus the export volume, which can basically exceed 100 million yuan per year. Such a huge shipment volume also makes the whole industry chain very mature. From accessories to vehicle factories, the production cost is extremely low, and the terminal sales price is also relatively low.

Even for ordinary electric wheelchairs, with the development of the market for many years and the increase of China's elderly population, the industrial chain has gradually improved. The annual shipment volume is close to 10 million sets, and the output value is billions, which also makes the cost drop a lot. However, there are only a few manufacturers in the field of electric climbing wheelchair in the world, no more than 100 of them. Most of them are only engaged in electric climbing wheelchair. Generally, they have other main businesses and mainly produce other products. The annual production of electric climbing wheelchair in China is only tens of thousands, which belongs to the industry with extremely low output, The supporting industrial chain will not be particularly mature, so the cost of accessories, production, operation, maintenance and other links will increase correspondingly, which leads to the terminal retail price of electric climbing wheelchair is not low, which is also one of the important reasons.

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