Our Story

We build chairs people are proud to use.

VoltMotion started with a simple observation: the people who need wheelchairs the most are served by the least inspiring products in the market. That seemed like a design failure worth fixing.

What exists in the market today looks like what it is: medical equipment designed by medical companies. For 40 million Americans who need a wheelchair, the options are grey frames, beige plastic, and chunky joysticks. They function. They don't inspire. They don't feel like you.

We started from a different premise. The person comes first. The device is an extension of who you are — your style, your independence, the image you project when you roll into a room. We design for that.

Why do the best-designed things in the world never include mobility aids?

Electric wheelchairs are functional. They are also uniformly, aggressively ugly. Not in a way that feels accidental — in a way that signals a complete abdication of design responsibility. When a pair of headphones has a chief design officer, but mobility aids are built by procurement committees, something is wrong.

VoltMotion was founded to change that. We believe mobility technology should be beautiful, intelligent, and built with the same craft as consumer electronics — because the people who use it deserve it.

We're not here to iterate on the beige box. We're here to change what a wheelchair can be.

Design-led, not spec-led
Every VoltMotion decision starts with the experience, not the engineering spreadsheet. Form follows feeling first.
Software that ships forever
Over-the-air updates mean your chair improves while you sleep. Hardware ships once; software keeps going.
Built in the US
Engineered and assembled in the United States. Not the cheapest path — the right one.
The Team

People building this because they've felt the gap.

MC
Founder & CEO
Marcus Chen
Mechanical engineer turned product designer. Spent 8 years at consumer electronics companies before realizing mobility was where the design gap was widest. Building VoltMotion out of Portland.
SR
Head of Engineering
Sarah Reeves
Robotics background, two patents in motion control. Previously at an EV company. Joined because she wanted to work on something that actually matters to the people who use it.
DJ
Head of Design
Dara Kim
Studied industrial design in Seoul and Berlin. Worked on consumer hardware for five years. Joined VoltMotion to bring the same design rigor to mobility that headphones and watches get.
We're actively hiring across engineering, operations, and customer experience. Get in touch →

Ready to see it in person?

If you're interested in VoltMotion — whether as a customer, a partner, a potential team member, or just curious — we'd love to hear from you. We're building this for the people who know exactly what's been missing.

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Or just say hello: hello@westsidee-rides.polsia.app