12/22/2025
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BraunAbility
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Providing automotive mobility solutions to increase the quality of life for people with disabilities.
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Carmel, IN
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| Monday | 8am - 5pm |
| Tuesday | 8am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 8am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 8am - 5pm |
| Friday | 8am - 5pm |
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Our Story
An American garage is the birthplace for some of the world’s largest market leaders and distruptors. Like so many before him, Ralph Braun could be found in the late hours of the evening to the early hours of the morning building what he could never have dreamed would be the foundation of the world’s largest wheelchair accessible vehicle manufacturing company. Within the industry, he’s considered one of the greats. There is something about someone pouring their mind and energy into a project. It’s admirable; it’s crazy; it’s impossible not to want to follow them around the corner to see what comes next.
Ralph kick-started the beginning of the mobility industry by creating the technology he needed for his own life. Growing up a multiple child of “dirt-farmers” in the small town of Winamac, Indiana, Ralph was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy at the age of seven and largely renounced as having a limited quality and quantity of life left. Defying the diagnosis and the doctors, while he would eventually require the use of a wheelchair (and later, a three-wheeled scooter of his own invention), he lived a full life full of invention, integrity, and imagination.
Ralph, together with his dad, created the first three-wheeled power scooter, which he named, aptly, the Tri-Wheeler. The invention attracted the attention of many who saw it and before long, orders for the scooter began to roll in. It was in his parent’s garage in that small Indiana town that Ralph would incorporate and begin to assemble the scooters by hand for his customers.
During this time, Ralph was also working a full-time job at a factory in town. When the cold winter months made road travel dangerous on his three wheels, he started to look for a fourth - and created a personal wheelchair accessible vehicle with a full-size lift that he could operate with hand controls from the comfort of his Tri-Wheeler.
