Compared to their manual counterparts, electric wheelchairs are far less demanding to operate, as the user doesn’t need to have upper body strength normally required to turn the wheels.

Or maybe that’s just us. [Peter Sripol] and [Sam Foskuhl ... but small enough that neighbors don’t get concerned. An electric wheelchair is at the heart of the build. After ripping out ...

Canton police officers came to the rescue Monday of a wheelchair-bound man having trouble making it his bus stop.The man, a ...

Using technology from Yamaha’s PAS electrically power-assisted bicycles, these power-assisted wheelchair products respond to force applied by the user to the main wheel hand rims to apply a ...

Wheelchairs, which facilitate the mobility of the elderly and persons with disabilities, are broadly divided into manual and electrically powered types. Yamaha Motor’s Joy Wheel (JW) series, which ...

On another trip I spent an entire day in Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport waiting for the airline to locate my “misplaced” chair.

A disability snooker player has been given the green light to take his electric wheelchair on an aeroplane, allowing him to ...