Folding Mobility Scooters

Folding or take-apart: how the scooter gets into the car

A folding scooter collapses into one package that you lift or roll like luggage. A take-apart (disassembling) scooter separates into several lighter pieces, usually the seat, battery, front and rear, so no single lift is as heavy but you handle more pieces. If one person will load it alone, compare the heaviest single piece, not just the total weight. The scooter finder asks how you will transport it and filters on exactly these numbers.

The lightest folding scooters (under 40 lb)

• Monarch Genie Ultralight: 27 lb, folds by hand.
• Monarch Supa Carbon Lite: 29 lb carbon-fiber frame.
• Monarch Smarti Plus (35 lb) and Genie Auto (39 lb): fold and unfold automatically.
• Monarch Genie: 36 lb, manual fold.

All five carry up to 275 lb, reach 4 mph and list about 9 miles of range on a removable 10 Ah lithium battery. Weights are as listed by Monarch; check each product page for whether the figure includes the battery.

Folding scooters for more range or a heavier rider

• Enhance MobiFree: 46 lb, 300 lb capacity, 10 miles.
• Mojo (50 lb, heaviest piece 30 lb) and Transformer 2 (53 lb): auto-folding, 300 lb, about 13 miles.
• Triaxe Cruze: 58 lb three-wheeler, 350 lb, 18 miles, up to 6 mph.
• Buzzaround CarryOn GB120 (65.5 lb, 300 lb) and CarryOn HD GB220 (77.5 lb, 400 lb): both list 22 miles and separate into pieces of about 48 to 53 lb.
• WHILL Ri (325 lb capacity, heaviest piece 44.8 lb) and Amigo Viva (250 lb, AGM battery) fold and also take apart; they are heavier in total.

Flying with a folding scooter

US rules limit a lithium-ion battery in a mobility device to 300 watt-hours, with one spare up to 300 Wh or two spares up to 160 Wh each in carry-on bags (FAA PackSafe). Airlines can be stricter, so check the battery's watt-hour rating on the product page and tell the airline before you fly. A product is airline-ready only where its page says so.

See every compact model in travel and portable scooters and lightweight travel scooters, or put two side by side in compare scooters. Spare batteries are in replacement batteries.