Mobility scooters in the UK

The table matches the situations buyers describe to us most often with the models chosen for them in practice. Every figure is the model's own stated specification; the buying guide weighs your own journeys in a few questions.

Your daily journey. Count the miles of your usual trip there and back and add half again for detours and cold weather; a battery gives less in winter. A range of 30 miles is ample for the shops in the village; for days out choose 60 miles or more.

Three or four wheels. Three wheels turn tighter and are lighter, so they are handy in narrow streets and shops. Four wheels sit steadier in bends and on uneven paths, cobbles and kerbs. All three-wheelers and four-wheelers have their own page.

Seat height and getting on. If standing up is hard, choose a low seat (the On Four sits at 68 cm) or a swivel seat. Measure the height of your dining chair at home: that is the height you get up from easily.

The class, and the speed. UK law knows class 2 (up to 4 mph, pavement only) and class 3 (up to 8 mph, one seat, no wider than 0.85 m, no heavier than 150 kg unladen, registered with the DVLA). We supply every model limited to 8 mph and confirm in writing which class your model can be registered in. The faster setting of the same machine is for private land only: a golf course, an estate, a park you own. Read what the law allows on the rules page.

Taking it with you. Does it have to go in the car or on a plane? Then weight matters more than range: the folding Foldy weighs 29.5 kg. If it stays at home, choose on comfort and range.

Shelter. Do you ride all year, rain included? A cabin model has a roof, a wiper and heating; it is bigger and heavier, and at 1.10 m wide it is outside the class 3 width, so in Britain it is a private-land machine.

The channel we sell from prices in euro, and UK law wants a selling price in pounds including VAT, so this page prints no figure. Your quote states the full price of the machine, what it includes, the VAT treatment and the delivery terms. The table lists every model with its wheels, design speed and range as the model states them; in the UK each is supplied limited to 8 mph.

You pay in full before we prepare the machine, using the payment methods offered at checkout, or on invoice where we agree that beforehand. We do not offer instalments, credit or leasing in the United Kingdom. There is no NHS route for a mobility scooter and we are not an accredited Motability supplier; what funding and VAT relief do exist is on the funding page.

The rules depend entirely on the class of the machine. A class 2 scooter is incapable of exceeding 4 mph and belongs on the pavement: no licence, no registration. A class 3 scooter is incapable of exceeding 8 mph, seats one person, is no wider than 0.85 m and no heavier than 150 kg unladen; it must be registered with the DVLA, may be ridden from the age of 14, and rides on the road, or on the pavement at 4 mph with the limiter and speed indicator working. Insurance is not compulsory for either class, but every UK seller recommends it and so do we.

Anything faster, wider or heavier is not a mobility scooter at all but a motor vehicle: registration, a driving licence and, in most cases, compulsory insurance, and no pavement rights. That is why we supply every model limited to 8 mph and keep the faster setting for private land. No motorways, and an amber beacon on dual carriageways. The full rules with their sources are on the rules page.

Britain has no NHS route for a mobility scooter: you buy privately, through the Motability Scheme (we are not an accredited Motability supplier today, and we would rather say so here than after a phone call) or with a charity grant. VAT zero rating is possible only when three things are true at once: you are chronically sick or disabled, the machine qualifies, and you sign a customer eligibility declaration. A class 3 machine does not qualify automatically. We tell you which applies to your machine in the quote, and we never present a zero-rated figure as the price everybody pays. The funding page sets it out.

On paper two models look alike; on your own street they do not. In the Netherlands we put two models next to each other at your door; in the United Kingdom we cannot, because we have no dealers there yet. What you get instead: a written quote for the model you name, a callback from someone who rides these machines, and honest answers on the phone, including the ones that send you to a competitor. Delivery to the United Kingdom is on request: give us your postcode and the quote says whether and when we can deliver and what it costs. Servicing and repairs happen in our own workshop in Heerde, the Netherlands, or as agreed in your quote.