We hop in the car to get groceries or drop kids at school. But while the car is convenient, these short trips add up in terms of emissions, pollution and petrol cost.
E-Scooters have the great advantage that you can just take the batteries with you and plug them into any standard socket. No need for special charging infrastructure
Two years ago my wife and I bought a battery electric lawn mower (Ego). It’s worked out very well, so we bought a string trimmer from the same company. Both are really quiet and I like that, for the lawn mower, it folds up into about the space of a big suitcase and can stand upright, so it doesn’t take a lot of space in the autumn and winter when it isn’t being used.
Cutting the grass at 7am in the morning with a electric mower in the summer and not feeling like a dick since its so quite makes electric mowers worth it alone.
Interesting. I’ve cut a lot of grass with “riding” mowers whose ICE makes some attempt at a muffler. The blade type mower decks seem MUCH louder than the ICE. I wear hearing protection when I mow, I don’t when using the mower to tow a trailer around.
I could see it being rather different on reel mowers.
E-Scooters have the great advantage that you can just take the batteries with you and plug them into any standard socket. No need for special charging infrastructure
Same as power equipment. Electric is infinitely better than small engines and it’s taking off.
Two years ago my wife and I bought a battery electric lawn mower (Ego). It’s worked out very well, so we bought a string trimmer from the same company. Both are really quiet and I like that, for the lawn mower, it folds up into about the space of a big suitcase and can stand upright, so it doesn’t take a lot of space in the autumn and winter when it isn’t being used.
Cutting the grass at 7am in the morning with a electric mower in the summer and not feeling like a dick since its so quite makes electric mowers worth it alone.
What if I want to wake up my hungover neighbors who were keeping me up to 3 am though ?
Interesting. I’ve cut a lot of grass with “riding” mowers whose ICE makes some attempt at a muffler. The blade type mower decks seem MUCH louder than the ICE. I wear hearing protection when I mow, I don’t when using the mower to tow a trailer around.
I could see it being rather different on reel mowers.
Our Ego’s going on five years old. Heavily abused and cutting as well as ever. The snowblower does a fine job, too.
In Vietnam they sell recharged batteries on the street. You can just swap and go. It helps when the batteries don’t weigh 800 pounds.
Now we also need those batteries standardized.