Our mission, for the purposes of establishing performance brackets on our Permobil C-300 power chair, was to run the vehicle under substantial, off-road environments. In this case, our playground of choice was none other than the San Fernando Valley's own, Balboa Lake.
So we were more interested in achieving sustainable distance than we were in grabbing on to any kind of outright performance, but what we did find made sense and was mind-boggling, all at the same time. It appears that when one pilot tries to grab on to all three of the power chair's performance variables simultaneously, the chair's running gear simply won't allow for that synchrocity. Maybe because of accessory drag, or maybe the vehicle has some kind of rev limiter.
Whatever the case, we know that if what is true of the C-300 platform is true across the board, then most power chairs currently available simply can not sustain the variables needed to meet most environmental demands. Apparently, the adaptive market has been one of our nation's smallest, even after the dawn of our very own, civil rights bill.
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