Some situations make us wonder if the car battery can be used in our mobility scooter? Interesting right? Since some of the heavy-weight scooters are allowed on the road along with the vehicles, you may even wonder if the car battery can run them.
In this article—I will answer whether car batteries can be used for mobility scooters. I will also clarify things that might confuse you and might cause damage to your scooter.
No. You cannot use car batteries for your mobility scooter. Car batteries are high-powered, required enough to supply energy to the car’s engine. While on the other hand, a mobility scooter’s engine only requires minimal or lower power. Anything more than the energy the scooter’s motor can handle can damage it.
So whether you use car batteries in an hour or two to your mobility scooter to go to a place quickly, don’t even try to do it. You don’t want to burn your engine for that. Let me further clarify some things.
How Much Power Does the Battery Need to Power the Mobility Scooter and a Car?
Mobility scooter batteries are 12 volts. These 12-volt batteries are joint in series. That means charging can be done one by one. Of course, mobility scooter chargers do that for us intelligently.
While on the other hand, the car battery is a single 12 v with plates and has more solutions to conduct electricity called electrolytes. A car battery can generate a very high electric current. Its capacity is 48 ah, which means 1 electric current flowing in 48 hours.
48 ah is just the average electric charge for small cars. With such a high electrical current from a car battery, mobility scooter engines can’t handle them. It’s not a good idea to supply 48 ah to a motor that can only take 18 ah.
Accumulator: One of the Factors Why Car’s Engine Can’t be used in Mobility Scooters
Both mobility scooters and cars have an accumulator. The accumulator is responsible for restoring electric charge in a battery. Not only that, but it also supplies long low currents to the mobility scooter’s engine.
For cars, accumulators have a different effect. It supplies strong and short flashes. Refer to the table below for more information about the difference between the two:
| Mobility Scooter | Car |
| Power is less | Power is high |
| The capacity is small | The capacity is high |
| The average is 12 volts | The average is 12 volts and higher |
| The size is small | The size is large |
| Direct but low current for extended time | Very high current for just a short period of time |
Conclusion
With the information I provided you in this article, I hope to prevent other readers from dangerously experimenting on their mobility scooter battery.
However, in my own opinion, I am still open to the possibility of using car batteries on mobility scooters. Technology is fastly growing, and one might take the time and effort to make car batteries work for a mobility scooter’s engine. That is a matter for the future. But for now, don’t let your mobility scooter engine explode. You can check this article if you want to upgrade your battery instead.
Citations
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