On any given day I can find an electric trimmer in the garbage or at the Good Will. Not a battery one but a plug in type. If they can't make a good plug in type why would anyone buy the less powerful battery option? I can't imagine using a snowblower that runs off a battery. Unfortunately there may not be a choice,states such as California are making small gas engines illegal.
Is electric the way to go now?
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The batteries are solar panels the wind turbines all come from China when you got a White House and his family that’s in cahoots with China that’s what you get
Stuff being outsourced to china started to happen decades ago. The seed was planted when Nixon visited them in the 70's. All that cheap labor.
There are battery factories and wind turbine factories in the USA.
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We had the Hustler Fastrak to mow several acres of lawn for the last several years. We down-sized to 1 acre and bought a Ryobi Electric mower. It works very well for us, is very quiet, and is much less effort since we don't worry about gas, oil, tuneups, belts, spillages, etc. IMHO if you have a very large area to mow, and you already have other implements that require the gas, oil, etc, then gas is the better choice. If you are tending to a smaller area, particularly in a residential area, then electric is a good choice.
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Batteries seem to be the wave of the future, at least for now. I've been considering slowly changing my equipment over but I'm waiting for two things, first, the old equipment to wear out to the point I no longer want to, or can, repair it. Second, I would like to see some improvement in battery technology to make them last longer, both between charges and their entire life cycle. Also, I'll let "the dust settle" to weed out which manufacturers will still be around to support their products in the future. I've had a few small battery operated tools for which I was unable to find replacement batteries once the originals ran out.
The other issue is cost. Often, the cost of a new battery is nearly as much as, or more than, the cost of an entire new tool. This makes no sense to me. It's not economically efficient for the customer, and certainly not a good deal overall for environmental concerns.
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Try cutting trees for firewood, limbing them, and cutting to stove length with an electric chainsaw. You will be tossing that chainsaw in the trash bin after wasting your valuable time.
I'll admit that I did buy a Makita string trimmer and chain saw last year. I also have a corded Makita chainsaw that I use for cutting up logs that I drag off the mountain. I've also got two Stihl string trimmers, two Shindaiwa string trimmers, and a Stihl chain saw. But the electrics are just so darn convenient, No two-stroke mix, no wrestling with them to get them to start and I find that they have plenty of power. Just stick in a fresh battery, and I've got a shop full of Makita batteries. That's really the only reason I got them. I wouldn't have gotten the string trimmer or chain saw if I hadn't already been invested in the battery platform. For me, that's the key. Having a battery platform. I've got a bunch of old junk cordless tools with oddball batteries. They're trash as soon as the battery won't take a charge...so wasteful. I'm okay with this stuff as long as it all runs off the same batteries. I seriously doubt that I'll ever get any kind of electric mower. I've got multiple, really good ICE mowers, and I can buy them cheap and rebuild them. Besides, if the government tries to pressure us into electric, I'm going to dig in my heels and stick with ICE just because they have no business being involved with my lawn.
Maybe electric is the answer for the weekend warrior ( I still have my doubts as the batteries just don't last long enough yet), but I don't see them being viable for the professional any time in the distant future. Unless we get some revolutionary new battery that will hold a charge for hours and hours under use. People are living in a pipe dream regarding electric. I'm just a weekend power equipment warrior and I can't even use electric equipment. I tried a blower and it was all but useless for my property. Just doesn't last long enough. i'm not going to shell out tons for extra batteries. I'll stick with my dino powered equipment thank you. Same goes for vehicles. I just travel too far for electric to be viable. Hybrid is about as close as I can get.
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