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Count your blessings.

thats is stupid as hell.. but i do say it would be nice not having to worry about oil, belts, or gas... this is all dependent on how long the batts would hold up and if there was a free replacement for bad batteries within say 10 years.. but in the end it should be my choice what i buy to maintain my lawn

Part of the reason why Californians are moving east. There is more to it though.

I cut grass for a living. Someone gave me an electric push mower that I tried using in small, tight areas where I couldn't get inside some gates. It ran for about 40 minutes before it needed a charge and couldn't handle mowing anything over ankle-high. It took 5 hours to charge both it's batteries.

This is why Honda stopped producing push mowers last year. California and a couple of NE states are going that direction and it was a huge market. Those 21” Hondas were the gold standard in walk behinds.

I wonder if there’s anything that prevents them to go to Nevada and buy a real mower.

I dont think those prices are a whole lot higher than what they sell for here. Everything is higher out there. I remember looking at them at walmarks and lowes and thinking how high they are

Fantasy land just like cars

Don't think I'd be seen with one.

I would buy one if they weren’t so expensive. I have a better powered trimmer and blower. I don’t have a lot of yard work though.

fk Cali

I'm sure it isn't a now or never timeline, but imagine if you had to dump your entire landscaping service machinery (at a loss, unless you do some leg work) and re-up your entire working inventory to electric. Fast battery chargers ain't cheap and neither are the batteries, yet.

There’s no way I’d switch. I don’t trust those batteries. I know one guy in town who lost his whole trailer to a damaged lithium battery on a blower. Burned up $18K of enclosed trailer, mowers and other equipment.

Brilliant idea from California on a list of other brilliant ideas from this shit stain of a state in our country.

Saw a Stihl zero turn, yesterday, and looked up their Lithium Ion powered model (24Kwh w/possible 8hr run time)....$23k is the cheapest and $28k is the most expensive of the 3 options. The 32hp ICE model was $17k. I haven't looked too hard, but looks like they are rebranded Ferris mowers, but may've just "adopted" their suspension set-up.